How do you spot a sailor in a crowd?

[Tidewaiter2]

Ah Say, a Walking Scarecrow....

I had a nobby reefer once; I told him never to set foot on my boat again.

.....Nawh, One thinks it's one of those Ghasthly sailor types who kept turning up at the Club, disturbing our bridge tables

Really shouldn't be allowed, wet oilskins all over the changing rooms, tenders tied to the pontoon, so One has to get the boatman to move them, so One can step into the water taxi to take One orf for lunch or pinkers

 

[Tidewaiter2]

But what are you if....

If its a male under 25 they have bleached blonde hair.
If it is a Mobo owner smoking a cigar is wife will be a quater of his age and have bleached blonde hair.

..............................You don't have any hair to bleach, you don't smoke(except when the injectors need doing), and SWMBO is a retired blonde, being now a distingushed grey-

The only option left is ;
the reduced reefer jacket, Viyella shirt(as approved by A C Stock for real yottin), club tie or cravat, knackered deck shoes, and faded breton red trizers

Plus the ability to waffle on for hours on foruii or in bars in yottin places, Of Course

 

[agurney]

the person with complete control of their umbrella when it's squally.

 

[l'escargot]

Saling shoes - the tattier, the more time they spend on the boat.

 

[Highland Bear]

Keeps looking up at the ceiling, trying to see the Windex.

If a dinghy sailor, seaweed behind the left ear.

If a Bavaria sailor, keeps looking under the bar-room table to see if the keel's dropped off.

 

[VO5]

It is the other way round, I think.
In marinas the ones kitted out to look like sailors are the posers.
The real sailors who have just jumped ashore after a long passage look as if they have been through the wringer and walk with a dancing gait, as if they were dancing a jig without the music.

 

[davidfox]

The wet weather gear and lifejacket worn in the high street pub?

W.

If you go to Aldburgh or somewhere equally trendy on the East Coast everyone walking up and down the high street is wearing sailing clothes, go into the yacht club or look at the people coming ashore from there boats and they all look like 2 bags of s... tied up with string

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Posted on the deck shoe fred, but relevant here? or not as case maybe...

Saling shoes - the tattier, the more time they spend on the boat.

Nearly, but...
Another forumite;
"Funninly enough, I have observed in marinas, the quantity of people who turn up looking the part, but on closer inspection are only visiting, to have a beer or a meal at marinaside restaurants and bars, and to become contaminated with their percieved glamour of yachts, yachting and bling."
Me;
Spotting is easy; The sailors are the scruffy looking ones with the cheap menu deal and the discount, end of line, last seasons clothing and deckies

The mobo people are better dressed,and more up menu, but constantly surfing their i-phones for the nearest cheap fuel

The 'glamour surfers' alwayus look immaculate, and with no boat, can afford the gourmet menu!

I like the use of 'contaminated' though

It's the 'bling' bit that confuses me-
most boaty SWMBOS take a few beads and trinkets with them;

Perhaps a single pearl string,necklace, brooch or whatever, + Channel No5, to remind them that that they are not just a useful galley slave/electro-mechanian/diesel fitter/deckhand/ relief helm in dowdy lumpen oilies and fleeces, but a glamourous/ desirable woman under all those layers.

If only he'd not spend all his time fiddling with the boat instead of her, or yarning in the pub/cockpit with the other blokes.

There are the Cape-ers, with one or two earrings, the yoof sailors/racers, with their wooden worry bead necklaces of course, and pink trizers wear keps with cap badges, but bling?

I hate the way the bar keeps moving about, once you've crossed the Bar, til after drink 3/4!
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[Tidewaiter2]

Yep, spot on

If you go to Aldburgh or somewhere equally trendy on the East Coast everyone walking up and down the high street is wearing sailing clothes, go into the yacht club or look at the people coming ashore from there boats and they all look like 2 bags of s... tied up with string

Definitely +1
and they(us too!) use charity shop fleeces for fender cosy's when not actually wearing them.

 

[DogWatch]

So how can you spot a fellow sailor in a large crowd?

Is it the sun tan on just one side of the face, the unshaven appearance (and that’s just the wife), the clothes they wear which would only attract the attention of the fashion police, the bulging pocket from the cork key ring, the smell, the “I came on a motorbike hair “or the one pint he has been holding all night as he cannot afford any more.

How do you spot a sailor in a crowd?

Have you considered match.com ?

 

[Baggywrinkle]

Take a recording of the shipping forecast into the marina bar and play it back. The real sailors will stop what they're doing and try to listen, some may even start taking notes. The imposters will carry on talking, oblivious.

 

[Nostrodamus]

Would he be the one trying to get over the bar just to prove you can do it in any weather?

 

[Tidewaiter2]

Nope, he/she is the one...

Would he be the one trying to get over the bar just to prove you can do it in any weather?

.....putting an extra warp and two fenders on the leeward side, having heard the fcast, looking anxiously to see if he can get to the bar of the Sussex before the next F7 rain squall hits

 

[hunter_europa]

Saling shoes - the tattier, the more time they spend on the boat.

Got to agree with you on that one!