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28-02-2015, 14:22
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lived aboard & cruised for 45 years,- now on a chair in my walk-in closet.
Boat: Morgan OI 413 1973 - Aythya
Posts: 8,471
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Re: Pesky Words
Oh Yes! "whether",- speling porblems agian!
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28-02-2015, 14:27
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#17
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Lower Chesapeake Bay Area
Boat: Bristol 27
Posts: 10,570
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Re: Pesky Words
Must be Winter.
This is getting boring though. My boat still has snow and ice on it.
I'm ready to paint!
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28-02-2015, 16:07
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#18
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea
Boat: FP Belize Maestro 43 and OPBs
Posts: 12,891
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Re: Pesky Words
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Originally Posted by thomm225
What's a mule? (were you talking weather or whether?)
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Three cornered sail flown between the peak of the main and mizzen and the leading foot of the mizzen. Often hanked to the main backstay.
From: Coastal Ecology Tours
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28-02-2015, 21:09
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#19
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2015
Posts: 62
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Re: Pesky Words
Ok, I remember Talca. Beautiful, small, sea-front village.
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28-02-2015, 21:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Lower Chesapeake Bay Area
Boat: Bristol 27
Posts: 10,570
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Re: Pesky Words
Quote:
Originally Posted by StuM
Three cornered sail flown between the peak of the main and mizzen and the leading foot of the mizzen. Often hanked to the main backstay.
From: Coastal Ecology Tours
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Awesome! Thanks.
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28-02-2015, 23:37
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Discovery Bay, CA
Posts: 1,183
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Re: Pesky Words
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Originally Posted by chile1
Love this forum, but totally new to sailing. I'd like to suggest a glossary of nautical terms and boat terminology. I can't understand many of the abbreviations, acronyms and what have you. What do think, floatable idea? Thanks, chile1
Landlocked for now.
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I've spent a lot of time googling words about all the doo-dads some of these guys talk about. It sucks not even having the REMOTEST clue as to wtf is being talked about.
This is how I KNOW, I'm not a sailor....not even close.
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01-03-2015, 04:11
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ohio
Boat: Now boatless :-(
Posts: 11,580
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Re: Pesky Words
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Originally Posted by Saleen411
I've spent a lot of time googling words about all the doo-dads some of these guys talk about. It sucks not even having the REMOTEST clue as to wtf is being talked about.
This is how I KNOW, I'm not a sailor....not even close.
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Time grasshopper...
Pretty soon you'll be faking it like the rest of us...
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01-03-2015, 04:32
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#23
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Abaco, Bahamas/ Western NC
Boat: Nothing large at the moment
Posts: 1,037
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Re: Pesky Words
When teaching people to sail I always tell them learning the language is the hardest part. Thus I will often say "pull the blue string" as opposed to "trim the Cunningham"
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01-03-2015, 04:42
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#24
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Lower Chesapeake Bay Area
Boat: Bristol 27
Posts: 10,570
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Re: Pesky Words
Quote:
Originally Posted by Saleen411
I've spent a lot of time googling words about all the doo-dads some of these guys talk about. It sucks not even having the REMOTEST clue as to wtf is being talked about.
This is how I KNOW, I'm not a sailor....not even close.
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I didn't have a clew either when I first started......
Speaking of which, looks like that mule above is sheeted in thru a line on the mizzen mast.
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01-03-2015, 04:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Mallorca
Boat: Dragon
Posts: 82
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Re: Pesky Words
Quote:
Originally Posted by StuM
Three cornered sail flown between the peak of the main and mizzen and the leading foot of the mizzen. Often hanked to the main backstay.
From: Coastal Ecology Tours
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So not the upside down backwards Yankee?
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01-03-2015, 05:05
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#26
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2012
Location: At sea somewhere in the Caribbean
Boat: Jeanneau Sun Fast 40.3
Posts: 6,389
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Re: Pesky Words
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Originally Posted by Ex-Calif
Time grasshopper...
Pretty soon you'll be faking it like the rest of us...
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Of course then there are those of us that struggle with knowing all this jargon in two languages (since we are not native american speakers) or three (sigh)
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01-03-2015, 05:11
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Long Beach, CA
Boat: Tayana Vancouver 42
Posts: 2,804
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Re: Pesky Words
I used to try to use all the proper nautical terminology because one can communicate more precisely with the correct words. Problem is, the people I was talking to didn't have a clue what I was saying. So now instead of yelling, "trim the port Yankee sheet," I say, "please pull in the red rope over there." As an added benefit my wife doesn't call me Popeye anymore.
S/V B'Shert
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01-03-2015, 05:13
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#28
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Ohio
Boat: Now boatless :-(
Posts: 11,580
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Re: Pesky Words
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Originally Posted by carstenb
Of course then there are those of us that struggle with knowing all this jargon in two languages (since we are not native american speakers) or three (sigh)
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I've sailed with a Swedish guy who called the telltales on the sail flocks(SP)
I thought that was great - "How are the "flocks" flying?" "Who gives a "flock?" Get me another beer...
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01-03-2015, 10:02
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Discovery Bay, CA
Posts: 1,183
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Re: Pesky Words
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Originally Posted by Ex-Calif
Time grasshopper...
Pretty soon you'll be faking it like the rest of us...
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Funny...someday MAYBE.
Now it's something like this when I charter a boat and have a problem...." Ya Mon!....Pleeze cum feex de boat mon. Whats wrong mon? " Uhhh, the white rope that goes up to the top of the tall pole is tangled in those strings that I think holds up the blue bag. You mean the main halyard mon? "Uhhhh....think so". "AND....
something's wrong when I pull on the left rope that goes to the front sail mon....there's no pulley thing for the rope to go thru" You mean jib car, you have no car? No, I have a car back home! I'm talking about that pulley thing...it's missing!!!" And so it goes...
So you can imagine when I read this forum and folks are talking about hanks, fardage, fids, kelsons, cheeks, catherpins, bitts, coaming, cringles, sponsons, reeves, deadeyes, futtocks, tholes, whipstaffs, swigging, worming etc. etc
I'm like....holy schitt...these guys are some SERIOUS sailors. Way WAY beyond my depth.
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01-03-2015, 10:21
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#30
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Hollywood, Fl.
Boat: FP Athena 38' Poerava
Posts: 3,984
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Re: Pesky Words
When the poop deck hits the wind gen, it's always "Quick, grab that rope"
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