TV-Boatshow competition gaff.

[andy_wilson]

What a shame they got the answer wrong. In case you didn't see it, on the boatshow telly program they had a competion for weekend on a luxury powerboat or something.

The question was "What is the correct nautical term for the front of a boat?"

A. Tip
B. Bow
C. Pointy end.

They weren't really the options but the one I remember correctly was B. Bow.

I thought bows cam in pairs at either side, and the 'stem' would be a far more "correct nautical term", or possibly 'head'.

Still, it was a motorboat question.

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[AndrewB]

From Dixon Kemp\'s Dictionary

Bow: The fore part of a vessel ; forward of the greatest transverse section. In taking bearings an object is said to be on the bow if its direction does not make more than an angle of 45 degrees with the line of the keel.

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www2.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/kemp/dictB2.html>Dixon Kemp's Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing and Architecture,</A> 11th ed, 1913, edited by Heckstall-Smith and Hope. (Heckstall-Smith was editor of YM).


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[Dave99]

THe options were Bow, Tip and Nose!!

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[Talbot]

I have always preferred "Pointy end", but I guess with a cat I will have to come up with something different now /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Cornishman]

Re: From Dixon Kemp\'s Dictionary

The Admiralty Manual of Seamanship agrees with that

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