johnalison
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I have been known to refer to myself as a cruiser. You have to be careful with the context though.
What is a "boater"?
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Easticks28
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I'm a yottie. The other lot are 'stinkies'.
Greenheart
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Isn't the benefit of the word "boater", that it is non-specific? And considering how many threads here relate to enduring differences between motor-boatists and sailing-boat-users, anything which allows us all to be referred to collectively, must be refreshingly inclusive.
But yeah, awful word, clumsy and vague. And I had to wear one of those stoopid straw hats for years, at Harrods.
But yeah, awful word, clumsy and vague. And I had to wear one of those stoopid straw hats for years, at Harrods.
Penton Hooker
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Unfortunately the word 'yottie' is used rather disparagingly by various people, not least those who do actually know what they are doing! I can tolerate many things, but being labelled a 'yottie' is not one of them!
Yotties, for example, might be flying a blue ensign, wearing a battered yottie cap when they are out shopping with SWMBO, and then come alongside with wind and tide from astern!
Yotties, for example, might be flying a blue ensign, wearing a battered yottie cap when they are out shopping with SWMBO, and then come alongside with wind and tide from astern!
stevebrassett
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I have a drying swinging mooring, so that could be a Swinger Dylaner, a Swilaner or a Dynger.How about:
Someone who keeps their vessel on a mooring = Swinger
Someone who has their vessel at anchor = Hooker
Someone who keep their vessel against piles = Scrubber
Someone who keeps their vessel on mud = Dylaner
Or even a Dylinger.