How do you park your boat?

[snowleopard]

I've never been able to break SWMBO of her habit of using the term 'anchor' for any method of securing the boat, whether to buoy, pontoon or aground.

I however find that 'park' serves admirably....

 

[johnalison]

I think that I sometimes Dock my boat. On leaving, I give the order "top line". (She knows what I mean, it's a bit like "deploy the orange mooring-line" when sockets are in short supply).

 

[bigwow]

I usually point to the space and say "We'll stick it in there"

 

[bikerbill]

Run aground 1 = just scraping off the barnacles lads, saves me getting the dive gear on.
Run aground 2 = this looks like a nice spot for lunch and a nap.

 

[ancient mariner]

In my previous life as a professional mariner, my wife was overheard to say at some social function or other, that her husband (me).... 'was one of the Pilots who go out and bring in these huge great cruise liners to the Port of Dover... and then park them up'....

If only it were that easy...

 

[KREW2]

My wife doesn't park anything, she just abandons it.

 

[snowleopard]

In my previous life as a professional mariner, my wife was overheard to say at some social function or other, that her husband (me).... 'was one of the Pilots who go out and bring in these huge great cruise liners to the Port of Dover... and then park them up'....

'Park up' has other connotations.

 

[KellysEye]

Park, anchor, pick up a mooring.

 

[dunedin]

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

Perfectly put. Though if a marina berth that is easy perhaps the p word

 

[colind3782]

The jargon of any pastime is there so no-one knows what you are talking about. SWMBO refuses to handle any halyard, sheet, warp, (insert any other maritime phrase here) unless I tell her what colour rope I want her to pull.

 

[Tomahawk]

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

It's only kinky the first time...

 

[armchairsailor]

On its trailer...

 

[doris]

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

Have you told the wife about this?

 

[doris]

Frequently refer to taking off and landing. In my airbourne days any landing you walked away from was considered a good one.
'Who wants to stick her in?' is also heard.

Serious nautical terms tends to be rare on Doris. so long as all is understood, where's the problem?

 

[johnalison]

Serious nautical terms tends to be rare on Doris. so long as all is understood, where's the problem?

Although we can joke about it, and most of us do much of the time, the use of the correct terms can be necessary to avoid confusion and in a crisis, a misunderstanding can be serious. This is why I tend to use correct terms when giving orders, or making requests, if you prefer.

 

[Stemar]

Marina - What's that?
Club pontoon - come alongside
Put boat back on mooring - Put her to bed.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Although we can joke about it, and most of us do much of the time, the use of the correct terms can be necessary to avoid confusion and in a crisis, a misunderstanding can be serious. This is why I tend to use correct terms when giving orders, or making requests, if you prefer.

That's all very well in theory, but if the person to whom you are making the increasingly urgent request is inexperienced you can shout "free off the port runner" till you're red in the face without result, whereas "untie the red rope on the left" will get results.

Coarse sailor: One who in times of crisis forgets all nautical language and shouts "For God's sake turn left"

-- Michael Green - The Art of Coarse Sailing​

 

[Lakesailor]

Stop here

 

[NPMR]

SWMBO fully understands the request "to go up to the pointy end and get the parking hook ready" and then, later "sling yer 'ook"

Mind you, it is the Captain and Lord of all he surveys who has to drag it all in again!