Least Nautical Terminology

[robp]

Thanks nm

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[Dave_Snelson]

That stinky thing...Outboard motor (from my kids)
Egg Whisk...Spare outboard motor (general)
Wavey bit underneath...Strakes & Chines on hull (kids again)

 

[burgundyben]

In the Solent, tide is going towards Russia or Tide is going towards America.

......girls, girls, get back, please, one at a time......

 

[Guest]

Skipper of large yacht to new cook: How many more times must I tell you to throw the spud peelings to leeward?
New Cook: I do, but you keep changing it!
First timer, half way across the Channel: How do we stop for the night?

 

[DanTribe]

Does anyone remember Leslie Phillips Navy Lark terminology? e.g ."left hand down a bit Chief"

 

[milltech]

"Boater" and "Push-pit", ones a hat and the others nothing at all.

John

 

[Wexfordian]

Couple of years ago, worked as a sailing instructor & learnt lots of handy new phrases but my favourite was: Stop the boat, there's a rock coming

 

[heerenleed]

My sister-in-law calls the aft cabin hatch consistently the bedroom window. And she means it

cheers

Peter a/b SV Heerenleed, Steenbergen, Netherlands

 

[trib]

Being English and living in Holland I've discovered that a few Dutch nautical terms have crept into my vocabulary.

I probably would never have realised if it weren't for the day when I shouted below to my non-sailing wife ... "Get the fok out through the forehatch and come down here to steer" ... to which she replied, extremely angrily "Why can't I just climb up the stairs like I normally do?" and then sulked for hours.

I still think that she doesn't really believe that Fok is the Dutch word for Jib.