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09-02-2015, 06:03
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Warwick RI
Boat: Catalina 30
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
In a salon I can get my hair cut by an attractive woman.
In a saloon I can eat, drink, and get female companionship.
Yup saloon not only wins by default of the attractiveness of the definition, but those are all things I can do and enjoy on my boat.
Might even start making and selling "Welcome to the (boat name here) saloon" signs to hang on the bulk head.
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09-02-2015, 06:17
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: North Charleston, SC
Boat: Camano Troll
Posts: 5,176
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
I have read both and I don't think there's any one person universally in charge who can make a rule one way or the other. I find that if I call it a "cabin", people understand what I'm talking about. They don't get a funny look on their face and wait for an explanation.
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09-02-2015, 06:37
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Senior Cruiser

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Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
An old debate ➥ http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...oon-45335.html
Nathaniel Herreshoff always referred to the living area of a yacht as the saloon.
The Encyclopedia of Nautical Knowledge defines a saloon this way: “In a cargo and smaller passenger vessels, the main cabin, or that serving as a dining-room, assembly room, etc.”
The Oxford Concise Dictionary describes a saloon as a: “public room for first-class or for all passengers on ship.”
The only dissonant note is sounded by Webster’s New World Dictionary, which allows the use of both salon and saloon, but then confesses that saloon is “specifically, the main social cabin of a passenger ship.”
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09-02-2015, 06:55
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,832
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
living room
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09-02-2015, 07:52
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,004
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
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Originally Posted by senormechanico

Salon
Saloon
I think it's pretty obvious... 
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Not so obvious. I typically get my hair cut in the main cabin. So which is the correct name.
As someone said, they are derived from the same word. Originally it was a comfortable room to sit in after dinner (think late 1800's english manor house). In mansions, they had seperate ones for men and women. Since the men's version typically had a side bar with liquor, it sounded fancy to call your bar a saloon. The women's version would have a lot of talk about dresses and hair styles, so womens hair dressers though it would sound fancy to call it a salon.
I'll give you 1000-1 odds you could spell it either way and no one would have any misunderstanding regarding your meaning (you might get a snarky response but no misunderstanding)
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09-02-2015, 08:03
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always in motion is the future

Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: in paradise
Boat: Sundeer 64
Posts: 20,164
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
It's a pretty rowdy crowd when they don't understand that a hair-salon is called so to make it sound French (=stylish) because a saloon is salon in French, while the Wild West Saloon is called a Cafe in France, which makes Yanks think it is about coffee.
Whaddayaknow... it's the same word spelled differently in different languages
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09-02-2015, 08:23
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Boat: Club Sailor; various
Posts: 922
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
Quote:
Originally Posted by vmattiola
Contentious and vigorous debate currently underway between the Admiral and I. Is it a salon or a saloon? In my opinion, a salon (while also somewhere you can go to get a haircut) is the cabin of your boat. A saloon is where Yosemite Sam might go raise hell, or sit at a bar to drink moonshine. Thoughts?
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My thought is to tell the Admiral she was right and go on about your day.
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09-02-2015, 11:21
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Penobscot Bay, Maine
Boat: Tayana 47
Posts: 2,125
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
Quote:
Originally Posted by OldFrog75
My thought is to tell the Admiral she was right and go on about your day.

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Before approaching a dock, what do you call those puffy things you hang out to keep from scratching your topsides, fenders or bumpers?
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09-02-2015, 11:52
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Marine Service Provider

Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 6,103
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
Saloon or Salon?
What you call it may depend on what kind of boat you own.
If one is a Catamaran owner it does change one's attitude (pun on angle) on sailing AND the nomenclature one uses. For example, a "heel" on a cruising cat is simply something on one's foot.
Similarly, the public space on boats is then likely to be called (by a cat owner):
On a Cat = "Great Room" or "Sun Room" or "Living Room"
On a Mono = "The Cave"
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No offense meant to either cat or mono owners.
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09-02-2015, 12:09
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Southern California
Posts: 588
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
Quote:
Originally Posted by jtsailjt
Before approaching a dock, what do you call those puffy things you hang out to keep from scratching your topsides, fenders or bumpers?
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Del Rey rigging.
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09-02-2015, 12:18
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Southern Maine
Boat: Prairie 36 Coastal Cruiser
Posts: 3,378
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
Ug. The only thing worse than calling them "bumpers" is leaving the out while underway.
OK, I need to lighten up. But everyone's allowed a pet peeve or two, right?
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09-02-2015, 12:27
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Marquette, Mi
Boat: Catalina 385
Posts: 76
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
Saloon........as "lets go downstairs to the saloon".
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09-02-2015, 19:54
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Central California
Boat: M/V Carquinez Coot
Posts: 3,782
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
My builder says it's a saloon, which I fully agree. Besides, a salon is where one gets her nails/hair done, while a saloon provides food and liquid refreshments.
Definitely a saloon:
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09-02-2015, 20:13
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: San Diego
Boat: Pearson 39-2 "Sea Story"
Posts: 1,109
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
I recently overheard Mr. Greenhand telling someone that ours is a salon because we don't have enough alcohol aboard to call it a saloon. Hey, he is the one that took out the liquor locker!
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09-02-2015, 21:40
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#30
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: So Cal
Boat: Catalina 387
Posts: 967
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Re: Salon or Saloon??
Quote:
Originally Posted by ryon
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That's funny right there.
I've always called em Del Rey Burgees.
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