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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 12:14:18 GMT
I didn't know until recently that the expression "you'll have the devil to pay" was nautical. Its got nothing to with satan or cash !!
The devil was the longest seam in a ship And paying was sealing the seams up with tar.
I expect everyone else knew this but what others do you know of?
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Post by loafer on Oct 31, 2016 12:20:06 GMT
'Three sheets in the wind'. Sheets are ropes which hold down the corner of a sail. If they're all flapping about, the ship will be out of control and lurching around crashing in the waves!
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Post by Telemachus on Oct 31, 2016 13:04:51 GMT
Poop deck. Where the heads are?
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Post by JohnV on Oct 31, 2016 13:09:02 GMT
"Touch and Go"
Sailing barges tacking on the muddy rivers of the east coast used to hold their course until they felt the bottom "touch" the mud then quickly "Go" about, depending on the weight and way on the vessel to carry them through.
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Post by richard on Oct 31, 2016 14:21:46 GMT
OK here is some of the slang I have come up with in my many years of boating.
Square Rudder - Parking or mooring the boat. Comes from the phrase 'square wheeling' a car as in parking the car.
Snided out - Full. As in that pub is snided out.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Oct 31, 2016 14:27:43 GMT
What is it that won't end up 'girted' if it uses a 'snotter' ?
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Post by JohnV on Oct 31, 2016 14:44:07 GMT
What is it that won't end up 'girted' if it uses a 'snotter' ? That's a new one on me Tony ...... I know a snotter as the heel fitting for a sprit on a spritsail rig but I'm damned if I can put it together with girting
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Post by tex on Oct 31, 2016 14:51:31 GMT
What is it that won't end up 'girted' if it uses a 'snotter' ? A Tug.
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Post by tonyqj on Oct 31, 2016 20:44:10 GMT
What is it that won't end up 'girted' if it uses a 'snotter' ? That's a new one on me Tony ...... I know a snotter as the heel fitting for a sprit on a spritsail rig  but I'm damned if I can put it together with girting I understood 'rig'...
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Post by JohnV on Oct 31, 2016 21:08:17 GMT
That's a new one on me Tony ...... I know a snotter as the heel fitting fo a sprit on a spritsail rig but I'm damned if I can put it together with girting I understood 'rig'... A spritsail rig is a Thames sailing barge rig where the "sprit" is a long spar running diagonally from the foot of the mast to the peak of the mainsail You can clearly see the sprit in this photo 079 by mudlarker2, on Flickr
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Post by tonyqj on Oct 31, 2016 21:41:39 GMT
 A spritsail rig is a Thames sailing barge rig where the "sprit" is a long spar running diagonally from the foot of the mast to the peak of the mainsail You can clearly see the sprit in this photo 079 by mudlarker2, on Flickr Today I learnt... what a Spritsail is 😀
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Post by tex on Oct 31, 2016 23:58:15 GMT
'The bitter end'. Loose end of a sheet or line.
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Post by TonyDunkley on Nov 1, 2016 0:53:56 GMT
'Tex' has got it, . . . leastways in 'tug-speak' on the Mersey, Humber, Trent and Ouse, and connected waterways like the Ship Canal and the Weaver.
One of the many different ways a conventional tug with the towing hook well forward of the sternpost [to allow the tug easy change of heading when towing up short off either a single line or bridle] can be 'girded' or 'girted' is if the tow begins to overtake it after the tug changes direction too abruptly at too high a speed. As the tow starts to overtake the tug [with the tug now on a divergent heading] the towline lead out from the hook swings forward onto the beam and if not corrected quickly and in time, becomes impossible to control and in extreme cases can even result in the tug turning over.
As a measure to reduce the chances of this happening tugs had/have either a centreline bollard well aft on the after deck, or a pair of rings winged out in similar positions. The snotter is a loose rope strop passed over the towline from either the bollard or the rings to limit the angle to which the towline can lead away from the tug's fore and aft centreline.
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Post by JohnV on Nov 1, 2016 6:55:40 GMT
'Tex' has got it, . . . leastways in 'tug-speak' on the Mersey, Humber, Trent and Ouse, and connected waterways like the Ship Canal and the Weaver. One of the many different ways a conventional tug with the towing hook well forward of the sternpost [to allow the tug easy change of heading when towing up short off either a single line or bridle] can be 'girded' or 'girted' is if the tow begins to overtake it after the tug changes direction too abruptly at too high a speed. As the tow starts to overtake the tug [with the tug now on a divergent heading] the towline lead out from the hook swings forward onto the beam and if not corrected quickly and in time, becomes impossible to control and in extreme cases can even result in the tug turning over. As a measure to reduce the chances of this happening tugs had/have either a centreline bollard well aft on the after deck, or a pair of rings winged out in similar positions. The snotter is a loose rope strop passed over the towline from either the bollard or the rings to limit the angle to which the towline can lead away from the tug's fore and aft centreline. Well I be a ........... Never heard it called anything (just possibly a strop) Think I can only remember seeing it used once when towing a particularly bloody minded tow (we found out when we arrived at the destination that someone possibly someone who didn't get the tow ?) had hung a massive digger tyre on a wire off the starboard quarter completely out of sight below the water towing trip to Arbroath 066 by mudlarker2, on Flickr
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Post by JohnV on Nov 1, 2016 10:14:24 GMT
What is it that won't end up 'girted' if it uses a 'snotter' ? That's a new one on me Tony ...... I know a snotter as the heel fitting for a sprit on a spritsail rig but I'm damned if I can put it together with girting Just been chatting to a couple of Thames tug skippers, they know it here as a "Gob"
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