Pompous Boat Terminology and Boat Owners

[LittleSister]

Are we allowed to say "stinkboat"? I always find that remarkably accurate after one of our smelly cousins crosses our path at the end of a day under sail when we have been breathing the fresh salt air!

'Stinkpot' is the preferred nomenclature in these parts.

 

[dunedin]

Tupperware having just filed for Chapter 11, I need a new proper name to refer to my "boat"

Quite the opposite - you can now call it Tupperware without the risk of some American lawyer suing you for breach of trademark

 

[onesea]

Own a “boat” however if calling on a radio I refer to it as “yacht” as it’s probably pertainent to the context of the call.

If I want to call friends when sailing, I am normally in phone range.

I hate been called captain, skipper I can deal with but captains are for ships or commercial vessels with paid crew.

I am a skipper, I guess although generally I avoid answering the question. People either assume I sail it myself or have a crew as the owner.

 

[Bouba]

Own a “boat” however if calling on a radio I refer to it as “yacht” as it’s probably pertainent to the context of the call.

If I want to call friends when sailing, I am normally in phone range.

I hate been called captain, skipper I can deal with but captains are for ships or commercial vessels with paid crew.

I am a skipper, I guess although generally I avoid answering the question. People either assume I sail it myself or have a crew as the owner.

If as a yacht sailor you don’t want to be distinguished with a title....then who do I yell at when you do something stupid

 

[Lightwave395]

Mine is a sailboat, unless some pretentious twat goes on to insist on knowing what kind of sailboat when I can tell them it's an Oyster (but just not a £2M+ one)...

 

[Bouba]

Mine is a sailboat, unless some pretentious twat goes on to insist on knowing what kind of sailboat when I can tell them it's an Oyster (but just not a £2M+ one)...

Your blurb under your avatar says ‘boat’

 

[WoodyP]

You need to look up Dunning Kruger effect

Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

But there are lots of people who have a degree but coupled with experience have the best of both worlds

Why, he was an acknowledged expert in his field. It was his modest self description.

 

[Bouba]

Why, he was an acknowledged expert in his field. It was his modest self description.

You see this on quiz shows....a PhD in history....doesn’t know or appear to have any interest in any history...apart from potato farming in Welwyn Garden City during Medieval times, their doctoral dissertation

 

[rogerthebodger]

his self-description.

That says it all for me

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Mine is a sailboat, unless some pretentious twat goes on to insist on knowing what kind of sailboat when I can tell them it's an Oyster (but just not a £2M+ one)...

That is a bit of an odd statement which is also oxymoronic. A person asks you a question about what type of sailboat you own, then you tell them it’s an Oyster, and that makes the questioner a “pretentious twat”. No wonder there is a lot of angst around nouns, it’s a minefield of confused personal opinions of what is acceptable.

No wonder there is a lot of angst around what to call yachts if this is typical of the logic applied.

(-;

 

[Irish Rover]

Why, he was an acknowledged expert in his field. It was his modest self description.

There was a poster on another thread I started recently also claiming to be an expert and using his claimed expertise to justify reporting me to the Mods. I wonder what he calls his floaty thing?

 

[Bouba]

There was a poster on another thread I started recently also claiming to be an expert and using his claimed expertise to justify reporting me to the Mods. I wonder what he calls his floaty thing?

This is a strange thread which I have followed with bemusement....you want to know what to call your boat...well the answer is simple...cat
There’s seldom a follow up question

 

[Irish Rover]

This is a strange thread which I have followed with bemusement....you want to know what to call your boat...well the answer is simple...cat
There’s seldom a follow up question

I'm a simple lad. As I said at the outset, I either call it the boat, or the heap of shit, depending on how things are going. Thank the gods, it's mostly the boat.

 

[rogerthebodger]

There was a poster on another thread I started recently also claiming to be an expert and using his claimed expertise to justify reporting me to the Mods. I wonder what he calls his floaty thing?

The question is how you define an EXPERT

splitting it up in EX sPERT

an EX is a has been

sPert is a drip umber pressure

There may be others

Sometimes I think I know everything, then I regain conscious

 

[Irish Rover]

The question is how you define an EXPERT

splitting it up in EX sPERT

an EX is a has been

sPert is a drip umber pressure

There may be others

Sometimes I think I know everything, then I regain conscious

Hopefully you'll regain it again, soon.

 

[capnsensible]

That is a bit of an odd statement which is also oxymoronic. A person asks you a question about what type of sailboat you own, then you tell them it’s an Oyster, and that makes the questioner a “pretentious twat”. No wonder there is a lot of angst around nouns, it’s a minefield of confused personal opinions of what is acceptable.

No wonder there is a lot of angst around what to call yachts if this is typical of the logic applied.

(-;

I was delayed by several days on my first transit by yacht through the Panama Canal by an Oyster Yacht round the world rally.

Beat that for pretentious....

 

[shan]

It really doesn't matter what anyone calls their boat. I think we're all pretty lucky to have a boat/yacht/floaty thing/whatever you want to call it.

 

[Bouba]

It really doesn't matter what anyone calls their boat. I think we're all pretty lucky to have a boat/yacht/floaty thing/whatever you want to call it.

It’s not luck…..it’s purely misjudgment

 

[benjenbav]

You see this on quiz shows....a PhD in history....doesn’t know or appear to have any interest in any history...apart from potato farming in Welwyn Garden City during Medieval times, their doctoral dissertation

I once asked my niece - a Cambridge theologian - what her doctoral thesis had been about. She said, “all I’ll say is it involved a 5th century German bishop and beyond that you don’t want to know…”

 

[Irish Rover]

200 posts . I think there may be a particular word in the thread title people find attractive .