What are you called?

[Guest]

Is it just me, or do you find the collective noun 'Boater' somewhat disparaging? I have noticed what seems to be a rapid increase in the use of this term in all sections of the leisure marine media which I find irritating. Or did I just wake up one morning having spawned a new pet hate?

Anyway, I venture to ask how you good people would describe yourself in the context of owning and running a motorboat?

Regards

Nigel

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[byron]

<font color=blue>I am Stinkpotter with Raggie tendencies. Perhaps that makes me a StinkRagger.

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[TerrifiedTony]

skint !

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[BarryH]

Pathalogically Insane, but skint also applies.

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[tr7v8]

definitely prefer boater to ....................raggie or even worse yachtsman or sailor!

I tend to use powerboater or motor boater when talking to "non-boat" people.

Jim
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[Blue_Blazes]

Many things, not all of them polite)

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[simongoldthorpe]

Mug who used to have more money than sense.

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[aztec]

bloody skint mate, that's what I call me.... Mrs Woman has several words for me, but i'd not repeat them in polite company!

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[Alistairr]

A lucky man.... 'cause my wife enjoys motor boating as much as me..

apart from that "Skint" sounds about right!!!!!

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[paulineb]

Marine flotation operator

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[TerrifiedTony]

Looking at the replies it looks like I am on to something with skint and as its an anagram of stink maybe we can become skintpotters , sounds much nicer.

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[sailbadthesinner]

I am always falling in
i occasionally go on motorboats
i mainly sail

i am a wet stinky rag

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[milltech]

The real answer is that of course you're right. The generic word is sailor and no reason to abuse the name of a perfectly good hat. I think it's origins are American.

Not applying to this group is the other awful apendage of modern marine journalism, push-pit. The analogy for pullpit is clear and obvious, but it has no opposite and certainly has nothing to do with pulling. The real word for "push-pit" is taffrail and they of all people should no better.

There's an article somewhere recently, maybe Sailing Today or PBO about the misuse of other marine terms.

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[banus]

Flash git. cos you've got a boat and everybody wants one even if they don,t know they want one. Even if it,s a rubber dingy your still a flash git to non boaters

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[paulineb]

My school hat in the summer was a straw boater. In the winter it was a red beret. And we had to wear navy gym knickers with a pocket !!!

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[byron]

<font color=blue>I still wear a Straw Boater at Henley Regatta and my blue knickers with a pocket are a wondrous sight.

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[Bejasus]

'navy gym knickers with a pocket'

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[milltech]

I shall look forward to an invitation. I still have my school boater in the wardrobe, hasn't been worn for eh-hem err 40 years, outside the occasional bedroom dressing up (no Pauline, nothing like that, just a bit of memory lane stuff).

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[Guest]

To migrate in a few short steps from a studious question of entomology, to Pauline's knickers, is a testament to the ingenuity of mankind. It makes one proud!
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[Viking]

Begs the question - What was the pocket for??
(I went to an all boys school)

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