Weird yacht terms, an encyclopedia please?

[Skylark]

Its an excellent book. There's a big difference between the latest version and the older issues. I have both. Keep one on the boat and one at home.

I described it earlier as a “coffee table” book. Perhaps better if I don’t tell where mine is kept ?.

Well done @guyd for buying a copy. It’ll probably turn out to be the best three pounds investment that you’ve made in a good while.?

 

[johnalison]

Bolt ropes, anchor rope (as opposed to anchor chain, both of which comprise a mixed rode), bell rope, foot rope, starter rope, and so forth. There are also lines that have nothing to do with rope: fishing line, the starting line, pick-up lines (the sort a cad uses), waterline, and so forth. So it is a silly conversation, unless your tongue is in your cheek!

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to amuse.

 

[CapPugwash]

The Jack Aubrey books

I came across the innocent use of very rude word in there : **** Lint. (Jeremy Hunt is the modern rhyming slang I believe). Caused lots of interesting conversations on the history of language in the pub!

 

[scottie]

Why don't you do a Google/image search for the appropriate term?

I did a google/image search on "Yacht cunningham" and found this.

good diagram, thanks.

Because, if I dont know what its called, how do I know what to search for? ;-) So - there is a loop, just aft of the kicker (or Vang in your diagram) - I have no idea what its for, or what its called....

If you are referring to coopec is it the loop marked mainsheet ?

 

[jamie N]

My wife's a non-yottie, whereas I've been involved in boats all of my life; over 60 years.
Once we'd moored up after our only sail together (apart from QM2, but that doesn't count), I was able to correctly say "My wife doesn't understand me", as even the most simple terms were an incomprehensible babble to her.

 

[guyd]

If you are referring to coopec is it the loop marked mainsheet ?

nope - far too small, far to far f'wd. The mainsheet 'clip' is massive in comparison.

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Why don't you do a Google/image search for the appropriate term?

I did a google/image search on "Yacht cunningham" and found this.

The tensioning adjustments along the leach are also referred to a cunninghams. Righly or wrongly I could not say.

And as for jack stays and jacklines dont get me going. (Tensioned it is stay, flopping it is a line)

 

[oldmanofthehills]

I believe that Port used to be known as Larboard but the change was made to reduce confusion from mishearing.

Quite correct. When using steering oar by right handed helm the oar was on the starboard. Obviously one docks against the other side to avoid fouling the steering oar, thus when larboard was found confusing the term port was used

 

[ianat182]

The metal loop beneath the boom, if for a dinghy would be for a centre- mainsheet purchase; older dinghies had a Mainsheet on a traveller fitted to the transom of the dinghy which meant very much more rope to haul in when sailing from a reach to close hauled ; the leech of the sail is less tensioned, but one disadvantage is the space left when tacking for the crew to duck beneath. Roll tacking has become the norm in recent years partly as a result of this change.
Describing to a beginner how a mast and sheet tensions affects the efficiency and shape of their sails is rather more necessary
whether a yacht or dinghy. Practical demonstration helps a lot of course.