Least Nautical Terminology

[webcraft]

What's the least nautical terminology your crew have used?

My favourite so far is from an otherwise promising female crew member who flatly refuses to speak in a seamanlike manner. Going about, the genoa sheet caught on a stanchion.

"Oh look", she said, "the rope's caught on that fencepost".

- Nick



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[Guest]

Nice one, Nick! Must remember to check the cuppy things that my fenceposts stand in!!

Not nearly as good, but in context gave us a laugh, was my father recently, who, after 40+ years of exhorting me to "use the proper names for things" referred to the standing part of a tackle he was working on as "this dangley bit"!

"If a job's worth doing...it's worth paying someone to do it for you!"

 

[jonic]

Nicola still calls solar panels sunsuckers

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[tcm]

Re: least nautical

I don't understand this post. Our boat is in France, so when we eventually get on the boat we make all the beds in al the bedrooms. Normally i do the driving, wife lets the ropes off and then puts away the big inflatable things in the hole at the front. Sometimes we set off early and the stop at lunchtime and use the big chainy with a hook on at the front as a handbrake.

 

[tadpole]

"For Christ's sake, turn left!"

 

[Roberto]

While sailing in a star - olimpic class, the pontoon nearing dangerously...

looking frantically between her feet "my god where is the brake!"

 

[sailbadthesinner]

I had a friend who described us to someone else in the bar as 'GullNecking' along with the wind at 6 knots.

I also remember ' darling there is water under the floor boards and the are starting to float' oh how we laughed ... much later.

If it Cooks Flys or Floats, Rent it.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Front, back. Left, right. Upstairs, downstairs. Back bedroom, front bedroom, living room, toilet, kitchen.

And for a reason not quite lost in the mists of time, the kicker is called Bruce.

 

[hlb]

This post is lost on me. Whats nautical terminology?? Or boat has a cellar, an atic, a patio and a conservatory. French windows and string to tie it up with. Hope this helps.

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[jimi]

"Oh look, the big white thing's dry , should we put it away now?"

 

[Bergman]

Day 1 of Coastal skipper course.

My first order as skipper

"let go the pointy end"

By day 3 all students referring to pointy end, blunt end

By end of course instructor talking about pointy end etc.

 

[sailbadthesinner]

The most dangerous i have used
' aim for where that boat is '
ten minutes later
'Good God not AT the boat'

If it Cooks Flys or Floats, Rent it.

 

[incognito]

Reading a little description of how to tie the basic knots, the author CONSISTENTLY instructed the reader to "take a bite", which in context actually made my ribs hurt for a few days afterwards!!

 

[Twister_Ken]

Just lazy spelling, like lite for light, nite for night?

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[tico]

SWMBO glossary of terms...
Downstairs = Saloon/Cabin
Rubber thing = Inflateable
Back bedroom = Aft Cabin
chug round the bay = 2 hrs @25 kts out to the islands & back
your favourite place = engine bay !!
Kitchen & loo = obvious!
Etc, Etc

 

[Viking]

Dont you just love'm
Yours was a bit more descriptive. I got "Hey the things caught on the thingey!"

 

[BarryD]

Well this thread is making me smile, I hope it continues, for ourselves we only park, never moor.

And SWMBO refuse to do anything if I shout at her, quite right too. Mind you it's quite unnerving the battle of wills we get into as we coast into the lock. Or at least it is for the other boats in there...

Go left, YOUR OTHER left for pete's sake
(IMHO, BTW, FWIW and NWGOI)

 

[robp]

"Spose you're going to start playing with all that string again and start your ducking and diving?..... Make sure it's not on the sun's side"

 

[robp]

OK, what\'s NWGOI? nm

~

 

[jfm]

Re: OK, what\'s NWGOI? nm

no warranty given or implied/not worth going over it