How do you park your boat?

[Sans Bateau]

I mean, do you park it? Berth it, moor it or just run it aground. What term do you use?

If I'm picking up a buoy, then is that mooring it? Or I'll be anchoring, what term do you use for anchoring? Alternatively I'll be going into a marina, so berthing her, but then I'll be using mooring warps not berthing warps.

 

[V1701]

I probably use the p word more often than some would consider seamanlike, however happily I have yet to run aground...

 

[Ripster]

I probably use the p word more often than some would consider seamanlike, however happily I have yet to run aground...

I consulted with the admiral on this and she insists that you always moor a boat. A berth is where you moor it if using a marina or staging. Running aground is simply not permitted. Parking is for motor vehicles or backsides! Anchoring is just that..... Anchoring.

 

[bikerbill]

Don't ask me, I don't use seamanship patter.
Park up = Berthing
Cludgie = Heads
Drapping the hook = Anchoring
The stove = Galley
The sharp end = Bow
The blunt end = Stern
Works better for crew who don't sail often

 

[Ceirwan]

Always leave her moored up.

Parking is for cars. You don't moor a car, you don't park a boat.

 

[jerrytug]

I don't bother with all that fancy stuff, I just tie her up.

 

[stephennoble]

I use the following to crew but as I often sale solo its just a silent job.

Marina "park her up"
Anchor "drop the hook"
Mooring "pick up the mooring"
Running Aground "S****"
Another Boat or Quay "Bring her alongside"

 

[Tony Cross]

I don't bother with all that fancy stuff, I just tie her up.

No sir, only whores are tied up, a boat is moored!

 

[lustyd]

I consulted with the admiral on this and she insists that you always moor a boat.

I hate to say it but the admiral is wrong <ducks>

Go to any marina today and you'll see hundreds of boats parked in the carpark. Moored boats are tied up, these are all neatly in rows in a carpark without any ropes or cleats involved - surely that's parking?

 

[Halcyon Yachts]

I generally say "coming alongside", either portside, starboardside or stern to... I think whatever you say the main thing is that your crew understand your intentions!

Pete

 

[Eyore]

Oh yes, I park my boat and berth my car,antifoul my house,and take the dogs for a broad reach down the road every day. Obviously

 

[Sans Bateau]

I'd expect that from a donkey on a motorbike.

 

[Eyore]

I'd expect that from a donkey on a motorbike.

Fair comment

 

[Robert Wilson]

Mooring - Phew!
Anchoring - Hope
Marina - Oh Gawd, they're all watching
Running aground - Just practising techniques, don't PANNNNNIC.

 

[epervier]

I go along side the wall,

Then when the tide goes out, run aground,

 

[Bobc]

Moor it to a bouy, park it in a marina

 

[fireball]

I don't bother with all that fancy stuff, I just tie her up.

and the boat?










sorry ..

 

[fireball]

Anyway - I just recover mine these days ... then launch when I want to ... it gets parked in the boat park ...

 

[[70521]]

We are on a swing mooring so moor it and as a bildge keeler quite often beach it.

 

[JumbleDuck]

The sharp end = Bow
The blunt end = Stern

In my case

The sharp end = Bow
The other sharp end = Stern

This may explain something about my sailing.