Pompous Boat Terminology and Boat Owners

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.
 
onesea said:
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.
Click to expand...
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 🤷‍♂️🤔
 
WoodyP said:
Why, he was an acknowledged expert in his field. It was his modest self description.
Click to expand...
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
 
Lightwave395 said:
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)...
Click to expand...

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.

(-;
 
WoodyP said:
Why, he was an acknowledged expert in his field. It was his modest self description.
Click to expand...
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?
 
Irish Rover said:
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?
Click to expand...
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
 
Bouba said:
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
Click to expand...
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.
 
Irish Rover said:
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?
Click to expand...

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
 
RunAgroundHard said:
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.

(-;
Click to expand...
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.... :cool:
 
Bouba said:
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
Click to expand...
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…”
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top