What is your favorite nautical/boat term?

great question trunorth!

mine? guess it would have to be "shoving off"

Why? Leaving the marina and headed out onto the water!

My all time baseball song is Centerfield walk-walk On- Roy Orbison, Walkin' To New Orleans- fat Domino single Double- Double imaginative and prescient- Foreigner Triple homestead- Homesick- practice, homestead-Breaking Benjamin Run-Run to your life- The Beatles,Run in the time of the Jungle-CCR Ball Strike Out BQ-Baseball and soccer BQ2-Baseball BQ3-we can Rock You

Bumpkin

I like saying "abaft the beam", but it hardly ever comes up in conversation.

I've always liked "pintles and gudgeons" since I heard in years ago in that old 1941 Abbott and Costello film..."In The Navy"

http://www.rigrite.com/Hardware/Rudder_Hardware/Pi...

The other term I like is...."freeboard".

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/218483/f...

"Ahoy"! is also fun.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2027/what...

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as the skipper is tacking a sailboat he yells to the crew

"Hard-a-lee"

to tell the crew he is tacking or jibing the boat.

The dogwatch

they call it a dogwatch because it is curtailed

(Patrick O'Brian)

There is only one answer to this question!!!

"Splice the Mainbrace"

Tacking!

Sounds cool.

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