pet names for instruments!

[Koeketiene]

Our aft cabin has been called the playpen.

 

[Koeketiene]

We spent a season in the Caribbean with an outboard called 'Start you b@stard'.

Did you by any chance sell it on eBay, because I think we've got it now.

 

[Sgeir]

The auto pilot always seems to be named.

We keep the arm's doofur in the dookit. Where do you keep yours?

 

[dylanwinter]

good thread this

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[nigelmercier]

Engine is Donkey.
Outboard is Suzi. When I get a 4-Stroke, it will probably be Suzi Quatro, even if it isn't a Suzuki.
Bike is The Bloody Bike (it's always in the way)

 

[capnsensible]

Met a couple in the Cape Verdes once whos Hydrovane was called Carly. As in Simon.

 

[capnsensible]

Sailed once with a bloke we ended up calling 'El Pid'....... as in stu.

 

[prv]

Justin Bieberspacher.

Just made me genuinely laugh out loud!

I like it, but not sure I could adopt it. None of my mates would ever say the name.

Pete

 

[ianfr]

Tillerpilot is "Uncle Ray" as he is around to help out.

Ian

 

[MarkG]

We have the 'DB' as in dogs bits for the Chartplotter...

 

[SamanthaTabs]

Chart plotter = etch a sketch
Washing machine = Annie, love Annie
Spinnaker = way to rude to post on here, damned thing from hell....
Dinghy = Tinkerbell

Not all exactly instruments but hey ho!

 

[cliveshelton]

Auto helm = Otto

 

[onesea]

Hand held GPS called "toy".
Autopilot "it".
Engine "iron Topsail" "doodly Klink"
Boats Washes "Wako's" (warns other onboard).
Ropes to Frap halyards "Knokum Stopums"
Oil Lamp "fire"
MOBO Users would probably get me a ban from the forums.
Other sailing boat's competition
Aft locker boot.
Dinghy SWMBO's description would again get me band (which ever one she choose)...
"Watch you me call its" and "thingy majigs" feature quite frequently as well but the particular object changes regularly

 

[Rivers & creeks]

Autopilot = whiney (we used to have a belt driven jobbie and the name stuck)
Eggpad = iPad used as a plotter

 

[Pinnacle]

Outboard is called Tommy ( its a Tohatsu )



On a racing yacht I sailed on in the 1980's, we had a v early model Decca Navigator set - known to all as "Desmond".

 

[Trident 24]

Are we the only ones with a depth meter called 'Lying ba...rd'?

 

[Rigger Mortice]

The outboard kill cord is called "the dingly dangly bit"

 

[Sgeir]

BB King called all his instruments Lucille.

 

[Crabber24]

First boat I crewed in:
Tiller pilot = George of course, so when we got GPS it had to be Mildred (you need to be a certain age to remember a sit-com of the same names)

 

[SamanthaTabs]

What are your bits and pieces called then Nostro?