favourite sayings

[johnalison]

From a book on yacht racing - "Luck comes to those who deserve it"

 

[weaver_fish]

Also re: racing.

"Boatspeed makes you a tactical genuis"

 

[ctelfer38]

'Wise is the mariner who is humbly grateful for a safe landfall'. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[curve]

Whistle up a storm

 

[Jock89]

"Daily flogging will continue until the crews' morale improves.!"

 

[Lizzie_B]

S.N.A.F.U.
'Ouch!' said the blind man as he dropped his hammer and saw, 'F@cks me chief, it's raining' he said peeing into the wind.
'I've got my tongue tangled 'round my eye teeth so I can't see what I'm saying.'
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'Break out the nutty.''Up Spirits' and 'Any fool can look elegant on a boat and freeze.'
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[wiggy]

From when I worked in Nidri on Lefkas- wind in the North sun shines forth, wind in the south its going to rain like a B%^std. said in a west country accent. 90% accurate by the way.

 

[oilyrag]

"Definition of a boat : A hole in the water, into which you throw money"

 

[Rabbie]

Lord Nelson said .........

Harbours rot good ships and good men. Still true.

 

[boguing]

When everything is perfect. (Anchorage, beer etc..) "You just can't get this out of a can".

But when it's not. *Not the downfecker, pull the upfecker you eejit".

Actually, I don't skipper like that; but if I did.......

 

[William_H]

"Suck it and see" meaning give it a try to find if it is a good idea.

 

[oldsaltoz]

Enough belfang belfang, rig for silent running.

(turn off the engine and hoist the sails).

And (only for small boats) 'Now you know how the poop got it's name"

Avagoodweekend......

 

[reginaldon]

'Break out the nutty.
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Takes me back as a scribe we dished out the 'nutty coupons' on pay day - still rationed in '49. We were quite popular!

 

[chas]

Not quite boaty but connected. From the Parade Ground at Dartmouth: A Gunnery Instructor -

"Them whats keen gets fell in previous".

The most delightful mangling of the English Language that I have come across!

 

[reginaldon]

'A green rub' - ie the Starboard Watch had the worst deal. 'Heave oh, heave oh, heave ho, lash up and stow' defunct now with the demise of hammocks

 

[LadyInBed]

"yacht with training wheels."
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I quite liked the saying I saw and use below
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[Lizzie_B]

They were still using lash up and stow when we had bunks accompanied by the second half of the pipe'hands off c@cks and on socks' /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

'She'll roll on a wet lawn' ref a craft with uncomfortable seakeeping characteristics. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[philmarks]

After a bad experience in a Venezuela harbour

When in danger, when in doubt
Hoist your sails and f##k off out
Tristan Jones