The French have a word for it.

[bilbobaggins]

Maybe they've been reading those RYA Course Notes booklets, or maybe they've painted 'Etrave, tribord' and 'babord' somewhere, ......or maybe French motorboaters also just don't know one end from t'other....

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[Guest]

French sailors - don't know their culs from their coudes!

 

[wotayottie]

Merde?

 

[Dalliance]

Or maybe they were just trying to describe the attitude of the skipper?

 

[thalassa]

Sterne = Tern

TERN
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[bilbobaggins]

Doesn't look like one of these....

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[Twister_Ken]

One good tern...

..deserves a shag (is that right?)

 

[Roberto]

Re: One good tern...

as "vannes" are seacocks, they may indicate the aft through hulls ?

or the bird bowels ?

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[benjenbav]

He'd have felt a right arz if he'd gone the wrong side of that green post.