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Can they make me stay on power boats?
Fortunatly most terms have alternates, as apparently I would never make it back to the dock if it depended on these terms. I am so ashamed. (4 out of 10)
Fortunatly most terms have alternates, as apparently I would never make it back to the dock if it depended on these terms. I am so ashamed. (4 out of 10)
Wow. Is my face red?
Wow! Really embarrassing! I've been pushing barges around the Chesapeake too long. I guess I need to get back to my roots! My only excuse is that if I tried to use these terms on my fellow tug captains they'd all laugh at me and make me buy the next round of rum. At least I know what a hawser and an "H" bit are and can explain the difference between a bit and a bollard. By the way, if you W.A.F.I.s ever need to call a tug, try hailing us on Ch 13. We monitor 16 but don't pay much attention to it.
Wow! Really embarrassing! I've been pushing barges around the Chesapeake too long. I guess I need to get back to my roots! My only excuse is that if I tried to use these terms on my fellow tug captains they'd all laugh at me and make me buy the next round of rum. At least I know what a hawser and an "H" bit are and can explain the difference between a bit and a bollard. By the way, if you W.A.F.I.s ever need to call a tug, try hailing us on Ch 13. We monitor 16 but don't pay much attention to it.
Snookered by the "roach"
I had no idea "roach" had all those nautical meanings...heheheh. Peter Suah H23 "Raven"
I had no idea "roach" had all those nautical meanings...heheheh. Peter Suah H23 "Raven"
old terms
I got a bit lucky with a couple guesses, but one of my guesses went astray. It was fun to search the dustly little corners of my memory for some of the answers. Of course, I found other terms in those little-used recesses that weren't on the test, which made me wonder if others might be interested in submitting a nautical term (including tugboat terms!) toward the next quiz. Can we do this? Also, it might be fun to assemble a list of antequated seafaring terms that are in modern day usage (at least in popular pirate films), together with their meaning and even how the name was derived (e.g, a ship's heads, the term halyard, belay ['Belay that order, sailor!'], etc.
I got a bit lucky with a couple guesses, but one of my guesses went astray. It was fun to search the dustly little corners of my memory for some of the answers. Of course, I found other terms in those little-used recesses that weren't on the test, which made me wonder if others might be interested in submitting a nautical term (including tugboat terms!) toward the next quiz. Can we do this? Also, it might be fun to assemble a list of antequated seafaring terms that are in modern day usage (at least in popular pirate films), together with their meaning and even how the name was derived (e.g, a ship's heads, the term halyard, belay ['Belay that order, sailor!'], etc.
shows my age
I got 8 of 10, and I think it merely means I'm old enough to have read the old version of Chapmans and raced a yawl. Tom Monroe Carlyle Lake
I got 8 of 10, and I think it merely means I'm old enough to have read the old version of Chapmans and raced a yawl. Tom Monroe Carlyle Lake
Avest , Handy Billy
When answering the qustion - what is a jigger, I answered 'a staysail', i.e. any fore-and-aft sail carried from a stay (supporting a mast forwards or backwards) (..a Mizen or Mizzen)mast. Author Graham Blackburn in his book "The Overlook Illustrated Dictionary of Nautical Terms" states...A Jegger. (1) An alternative name for the portable block and tackle known as a handy billy...(2) An alternative name for a small sail carried on a small mast at the back of a square-rigged ship. This sail is otherwise variously known as a spanker or a driver... I think I should have gotton that one right! regards Lou
When answering the qustion - what is a jigger, I answered 'a staysail', i.e. any fore-and-aft sail carried from a stay (supporting a mast forwards or backwards) (..a Mizen or Mizzen)mast. Author Graham Blackburn in his book "The Overlook Illustrated Dictionary of Nautical Terms" states...A Jegger. (1) An alternative name for the portable block and tackle known as a handy billy...(2) An alternative name for a small sail carried on a small mast at the back of a square-rigged ship. This sail is otherwise variously known as a spanker or a driver... I think I should have gotton that one right! regards Lou
Aspect Ratio
According to the United States Power Squadrons text book on Sail, the following definition is given for a sail's aspect ratio: Applied to mainsails, aspect ratio is the quotient of the luff length of a sail, squared, divided by the area of the sail. For a triangular sail with no roach, this equates to the luff length divided by half the foot length.
According to the United States Power Squadrons text book on Sail, the following definition is given for a sail's aspect ratio: Applied to mainsails, aspect ratio is the quotient of the luff length of a sail, squared, divided by the area of the sail. For a triangular sail with no roach, this equates to the luff length divided by half the foot length.
Avast vs Belay
When I was in the Navy, when someone said "belay" that meant to stop. Although no one I knew in the Navy ever said "avast", I was always under the impression that the term avast was a hail as in "Avast me hearties, pull harder, or avast me hearties, belay that hauling".
When I was in the Navy, when someone said "belay" that meant to stop. Although no one I knew in the Navy ever said "avast", I was always under the impression that the term avast was a hail as in "Avast me hearties, pull harder, or avast me hearties, belay that hauling".
Glad my Sea Scout Leader won't know
I'm glad Bill Minto, my Sea Scout leader in Houston, is not alive to see my score. Since staying after me to get my Double Eagle (Eagle and Quartermaster) 5 out of 10 30 years later is still embarassing. He would be proud that I missed the roach question.
I'm glad Bill Minto, my Sea Scout leader in Houston, is not alive to see my score. Since staying after me to get my Double Eagle (Eagle and Quartermaster) 5 out of 10 30 years later is still embarassing. He would be proud that I missed the roach question.
Probably the only time
I'll ever get all ten. Remembered from seascout days that a ketch or yawl under reduced sail (no main) is said to be 'jib and jigger'.
I'll ever get all ten. Remembered from seascout days that a ketch or yawl under reduced sail (no main) is said to be 'jib and jigger'.
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I guess I am challenged in the area of vernacular. You tried to trick me on # 3 but I am still right. The Bug and the drug are a stretch for me since I was thinkig of the sailing answer. But then I guess bugs and drugs are a very important part of sailing for some folks. Technically, we are both correct. I need to lighten up a bit!
I guess I am challenged in the area of vernacular. You tried to trick me on # 3 but I am still right. The Bug and the drug are a stretch for me since I was thinkig of the sailing answer. But then I guess bugs and drugs are a very important part of sailing for some folks. Technically, we are both correct. I need to lighten up a bit!
Uh oh!
It's a good thing they don't quiz you before you take your boat out, I'd be at the dock permanently! I didn't know any of them! I was just anxious to get my results back so I could see what the answers were... I still don't know them!! hehe
It's a good thing they don't quiz you before you take your boat out, I'd be at the dock permanently! I didn't know any of them! I was just anxious to get my results back so I could see what the answers were... I still don't know them!! hehe
So Gary, are u blind?
I guess the blind have more experiences with roaches than me. Wonder if that is an essential in the America's cup. Maybe that's why we keep losing!
I guess the blind have more experiences with roaches than me. Wonder if that is an essential in the America's cup. Maybe that's why we keep losing!
Luck I went to class
Just getting done with the Power Squadron and thinking of joining (a good group). Lots of old sailers who use these terms. I learned a lot of them when I sailed in Florida several years ago. I had to have a dictionary to understand them the old salts, at first, but I do have a good memory, when I try.
Just getting done with the Power Squadron and thinking of joining (a good group). Lots of old sailers who use these terms. I learned a lot of them when I sailed in Florida several years ago. I had to have a dictionary to understand them the old salts, at first, but I do have a good memory, when I try.
Comments on the Questions & Answers
You can walk the walk, but can you talk the talk? Here we go. 1. The correct answer to number one is yawl, ya'll. With 1294 results in 74% got this correct. A ketch has two masts with the smaller aft but the aft mast is in front of the rudder post. On a two-masted schooner the smaller mast is forward. A cutter is typically a sloop with a staysail added though you can have a cutter-rigged yawl, ketch or schooner too. Is this confusing or what? 2. According to Dennis Connor, a sail's aspect ratio is the length of it's luff divided by the length of its foot. The Encyclopedia of Sailing confirms this. 58% of the respondents got this right. I'm not sure about the power squadron answer that was raised. Do those folks know something about sails? Seriously I'll keep my eye out for that one but believe the given answer to be the correct one. 3. The answer to the roach question was all of the above. 62% got this right. Obviously the outward curve of the leech is the proper nautical answer, but we're having fun here, right? Your quiz result won't figure into your grade point average! 4. The correct answer is to stop what you are doing. 59% got this right. And if you're still complaining about the answer to 3, avast! 5. A neap tide occurs when the moon is in it's first and third quarters and it's pull on the oceans is minimized due to right angle alignments of earth, moon and sun. Thus it's the time of higher low tides, lower high tides, and minimum tidal range and currents. 48% got this right. The opposite effect, called spring tides occurs during full and new moons. The significance for sailors is most pronounced when you're trying to travel through an area with strong tidal currents. It's desirable to pass through during neap tides if possible and slack tides if you can. 6. Sailing full and by means sailing as close to the wind as you can while still keeping your sails full. 37% got this right. 7. Getting pooped in the nautical sense means getting boarded from astern by a breaking wave. Hasn't happened to me yet and I hope it never does. 85% got this right. 8. An occulting light is an intermittent light that is light more than it's dark It's characteristics are abrreviated on charts as OCC. 26% got this right. 9. A limber hole is that little drain hole that interconnects sections of the bilge so water can get to the bilge pump and get pumped overboard. 56% got this right. 10. In a nautical sense a jigger is another name for a mizzen. 43% got this right. As always, we hope you had fun and maybe learned something. Gary Wyngarden S/V Shibumi H335
You can walk the walk, but can you talk the talk? Here we go. 1. The correct answer to number one is yawl, ya'll. With 1294 results in 74% got this correct. A ketch has two masts with the smaller aft but the aft mast is in front of the rudder post. On a two-masted schooner the smaller mast is forward. A cutter is typically a sloop with a staysail added though you can have a cutter-rigged yawl, ketch or schooner too. Is this confusing or what? 2. According to Dennis Connor, a sail's aspect ratio is the length of it's luff divided by the length of its foot. The Encyclopedia of Sailing confirms this. 58% of the respondents got this right. I'm not sure about the power squadron answer that was raised. Do those folks know something about sails? Seriously I'll keep my eye out for that one but believe the given answer to be the correct one. 3. The answer to the roach question was all of the above. 62% got this right. Obviously the outward curve of the leech is the proper nautical answer, but we're having fun here, right? Your quiz result won't figure into your grade point average! 4. The correct answer is to stop what you are doing. 59% got this right. And if you're still complaining about the answer to 3, avast! 5. A neap tide occurs when the moon is in it's first and third quarters and it's pull on the oceans is minimized due to right angle alignments of earth, moon and sun. Thus it's the time of higher low tides, lower high tides, and minimum tidal range and currents. 48% got this right. The opposite effect, called spring tides occurs during full and new moons. The significance for sailors is most pronounced when you're trying to travel through an area with strong tidal currents. It's desirable to pass through during neap tides if possible and slack tides if you can. 6. Sailing full and by means sailing as close to the wind as you can while still keeping your sails full. 37% got this right. 7. Getting pooped in the nautical sense means getting boarded from astern by a breaking wave. Hasn't happened to me yet and I hope it never does. 85% got this right. 8. An occulting light is an intermittent light that is light more than it's dark It's characteristics are abrreviated on charts as OCC. 26% got this right. 9. A limber hole is that little drain hole that interconnects sections of the bilge so water can get to the bilge pump and get pumped overboard. 56% got this right. 10. In a nautical sense a jigger is another name for a mizzen. 43% got this right. As always, we hope you had fun and maybe learned something. Gary Wyngarden S/V Shibumi H335
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