Nautical Definitions... some light reading!

Jan 19, 2010
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Hobie 16 & Rhodes 22 Skeeter Charleston
For Christmas, my daughter got me a book titled

"A Dictionary for Landlubbers, Old Salts & Armchair Drifters" by Henry Beard & Roy McKie

It is hilarious. I'd like to share a few entries

"Sail-ing" 1.n. the fine art of getting wet and becoming ill while slowly going nowhere at great expense.

"Buoy" 1.n. Navigational Aid. There are several types and colors of buoys of which the most numerous are: The Black Can (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon); The Red Nun (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon); The Red or Green Day Beacon (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon); and the Vertically striped black-and-white channel marker (seen as a fuzzy black spot on the horizon).

If you would like to find a copy for yourself the ISBN is 0-89480-144-9
 
Sep 23, 2009
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O'Day 34-At Last Rock Hall, Md
The one I remember. ...alcohol stove, n, used with insurance policy to convert boat into liquid asset.
 
Sep 15, 2009
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S2 9.2a Fairhope Al
lol i have that book it's a hoot

Yacht Broker....Form of coastal marine life found in many harbors in the Northern Hemisphere generally thought to occupy a position on the evolutionary scale above algae, but blow the cherrystone clam.