Definitions

[webcraft]

Angle of Varnishing Stability
Maximum angle of heel at which varnish can be applied

Angle of Vanishing Stupidity
Point at which the skipper realises a reef would be prudent

Styx No
Stability coefficient of Charon's boat

- Nick



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[max_power]

and.........

Reef Knot - The feeling in your guts when aground on a reef.

Boom - The sound of a boom hitting your head.

Skin - The outer covering of a sailor.

Rake - Stinkpot Driver

Ratlines - The looks of a Racing yacht Driver

Mitre - Dick Van Dyke saying a metre in Chitty Chitty Bang

Harden - A feeling experienced predominately in youth.

Deviation - Listing to port after being brought up on Starboard

Drag - Single handed sailors who can wear knickers with freedom .

Butt - The bit thats always wet.

Bitter End - When you have to give up sailing.







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[Twister_Ken]

Spinnaker Guy - the hunk standing by the shrouds playing the luff of the kite

Lazy Guy - sitting in the cockpit watching others work ship

Pole Topping Lift - escalator to the gallows in Old Warsaw

Bowline - fits into the notch at the blunt end of an arrow

Taffrail - moaning Welshman

Dog Watch - urban nature programme

Heaving line - seasickness after spaghetti

Forepeak - unfortunate accident during foreplay





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[townquay]

Ahoy: First in a series of 4 letter words exchanged by skippers as their boats approach one another
Block: A pulley which connects a snagged line to a jammed cleat
Blocked: An adjective commonly used as a prefix to such words as 'heads','gally outlet', 'bilge pump' etc
Boom: Laterally mounted pole to which a sail is fastened - used during jybing to shift crew members to an horizontal position
Buoy: A fuzzy object on the horizon capable of assuming any identity the skipper might earnestly hope for
Tidal Stream: flow of water that always carries a boat away from its intended destination and towards hazards.
Equator :an imaginary line encurcling the earth and which separates the North danger zone from the South danger zone.
Torch: Metal tube used for storing dead electrical cells before disposal
Hazard: Any other boat over 1ft. long - the skipper of any such vessel - any body of water - any body of land within 50 metres of any such body of water
Lifeboat: a unique class of boat whereby to board actually increases the chances of survival rather than decrease such


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[sailbadthesinner]

Spreader - Female landlubber of loose morals


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[sailbadthesinner]

Jackstay - order shouted at ships dog
Ration - what your bumb has after three days in wet oilies


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[Evadne]

Keel - a device for locating mudbanks

Tiller - a hun whose fearsome exploits terrorised Europe in the middle ages

"Sailing by" - a lullabye that works on adults without fail

"Southeast Iceland" - the antidote to the above

anchor balls - the act of hooking a power cable that is clearly marked on the chart



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[Twister_Ken]

A Fid

A South African working for the FBI

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[snooks]

Wind - Movement of air from your intended destination to your current position
Tide - Movement of water in the opposite direction of travel
Closing time - 10 minutes before one arrives by boat
ETA - Extra Time Anticipated - Most optimistic time to arrive at the mouth of a very long river...
Hatch - If it's open it should be closed, if it's closed it should be open

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[sailbadthesinner]

Weather forecast - series of guesses by the uninformed on the unfathomable
crash tack - the act of tacking in front of a motorbaot in a narrow channell.
anti foul - your mums unpleasant sister


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[Stingo]

Re: A Fid

Would that be a South African noted for forcing forumites to imbibe copious amounts of supplies from his diesel tank?

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[sailbadthesinner]

Re: South african sailors

twin keeler - a south african succesful in dating identical sisters
a wreck - what south africans believe to be next iran



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[sailbadthesinner]

'Wind - Movement of air from your intended destination to your current position'

aint that the truth

if you wnat any more pics of the ionian please let me know
i am out there later in the year
my fees are very modest /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Evadne]

Ionian - is that someone with a slave called Ian?

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[Twister_Ken]

Baggywrinkle

The state of one's skin after living in oilskins for a while.

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[snooks]

Wind....blooming stuff

The wind was a nighmare in the Ionian, cos we were only day sailing from the base, which was near the top of a bay....we'd beat down, as much as you can in a tub of a boat with small sails, (actually we'd get boared after realising that leeway was producing more speed that headway, and put the donk on) get to an anchoridge for lunch.

The wind would drop for lunch, which I thought was very reasonable

Then in the afternoon we'd sail back, by this time the wind had come up and turned 180 degrees...so it would be a beat, if the sails were bigger and the boat had more in comnon with the shape of a fish than a coke can!...on with the engine again.!

It was a great boat to live on for a week though....ho hum the trade off of modern boats

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[Rabbie]

HEADS. Things that hit booms.
GROMMET. Whats left when the end snaps off one of those self-adhesive plastic coat-hook thingys in your hanging space.
SPLICE. To pull up your crotch-strap REALLY,REALLY, tight.
SHEET. Expletive.
AVAST. Descriptive of enormity.
BUMKIN. My son on the helm.
ON THE WIND. Feeling after double helping of baked beans.
GROUND TACKLE. When gonads strike deck after lifting large anchor without bending knees.
DISMAST. Caribbean translation of 'THIS MAST'
BALLAST. Another expletive.
FRIGATE. Yet another.
SCANTLINGS. Female apparel seen drying on rigging.
BROACH. Item of jewellry.
CLEW. Something I haven't.
Rab.


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[kingfisher]

Screw driver: tool to remove the heads of screws

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[Ohdrat]

Bermudan - Fair weather sailors that sometimes dissapear for no reason at all.

Gaff - a navigator's mistake giving a course to steer that is less than 90º off the wind

Ketch - What a Gin palace owner calls when throwing a bow line ashore

Mizzen - An unmarried female skipper

Lugger - A sailor that has an aversion to concussion

Schooner - a generous portion of spirit

Windlass - A young female that flys on the wings of the wind