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Posted by Toe on 13:10:09 11/21/14
Well, I think we are 1-2 weeks away from launching my new boat and whith it, the prospects of many pelagic trips. In preparation for this long-anticipated event, I think it's important for any potential crew and guests to familiarize themselves with nautical terminology prior to our first pelagic trips. Here are just some of the terms you may here being used on this vessel, along with their definition:
ABOARD: 1) on or into a ship. 2) a piece of wood 3) what you feel like after 3 hours on a pelagic trip without seeing any birds.
BOAT: an ever-enlarging hole in the water where your money goes and is never seen again. See homelessness.
BOUY: an anchored navigational aid marking a channel, reef, or other hazard. There are several kinds of buoys:
-green can (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon)
-red nun (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon)
-red or green day beacon (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon), and
-vertically striped black-and-white channel marker (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon)
CAPTAIN: a decorative dummy found in a prominent location on sailboats and motorboats. See figurehead.
CHOCK: 1) a metal fitting on the transom through which a rope is placed 2) an unpleasant surprise felt by Spanish sailors.
DINGHY: a small boat carried on a larger vessel, designed to carry the crew 100 yards in any direction before sinking.
DANGEROUS WATERS: when you tell your wife you are going to work, when in fact you are going fishing.
DEADRISE: 1) the angle of the bottom of the hull in cross-section. 2) getting up at 0300 to check the anchor.
DISTRESS SIGNALS: internationally recognized signals used to show that a boat is in danger, including the sudden appearance of lawyers, the pointing of fingers, and the repression of memories.
DISPLACEMENT: 1) amount of water displaced by the size and shape fo a vessel 2) docking a boat and forgetting where you left it.
FIX: 1) Estimated position of a boat. 2) what you have to do to at least three things on the boat when you get back.
FLASHLIGHT: Sometimes waterproof tubular metal container used on ships for storing dead batteries prior to their disposal
FUEL TANKS: Giving thanks for having enough fuel to get back.
HATCH: opening on the deck of a boat where you fall into.
HEAVE HO: What you do when you ve eaten too much Ho.
HEAVE TOO: when a second person gets seasick.
MARINA: a location next to the water with modern facilities designed for the disposal of excess amounts of money that may have accumulated on board a boat causing a fire hazard.
PORT: 1) a harbor where ships load and unload, typically the place you most desire to leave when going out on a boat. 2)a harbor where ships load and unload, typically the place you most desire to get back to after being on a boat in rough seas for 2 hours. 3) the left side of a boat, usually the side where the wind is blowing and people are puking. 4) a thick wine that tastes like you are drinking melted candy, only sweeter.
PROPELLER: Underwater winch designed to wind up at high speed any lines or ropes left hanging over the stern.
RING BUOY: the little child that carries the rings at a wedding.
RUDDER: Large, heavy, vertically mounted, hydro-dynamically contoured steel plate with which, through the action of a tiller or wheel, it is possible, during brief intervals, to point a sailing vessel in a direction which, due to a combination of effects caused by tide, current, the force and direction of the wind, the size and angle of the waves, and the shape of the hull, it does not wish to go.
SCUPPER: the meal that comes after lunch.
YAWL: a boat or crew from Texas.
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