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Topic: Quotable Quotes - Sailing
Posted By: Haggis
Subject: Quotable Quotes - Sailing
Date Posted: 07 Apr 04 at 3:33pm

Taken off a thread in the Keelboat Development heading

What are the most Quotable Quotes in Sailing?

Starting on my left with Jim (Salty Balls) Saltonstall

"Like a Ferrett up a Drain Pipe"




Replies:
Posted By: Haggis
Date Posted: 07 Jun 04 at 5:30pm

Lets see if we can get this going now that we are in the season:


 


Heard on a Mumm 30 race course


We're smoking! - and i am not talking about in a coffee shop in Amsterdam"


Gael over to you



Posted By: Skiffman
Date Posted: 09 Jun 04 at 9:24pm

'Pain is tempory, chicks dig scars and glory lasts forever'

Harvey Hilery - hes a good coach

from Smack down under



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Posted By: Caswell
Date Posted: 10 Jun 04 at 9:03am
Our uni team racing team had a catch phrase- 'If you're not fast, you're last' - which used to get shouted at every oppurtunity.


Posted By: ChrisJ
Date Posted: 10 Jun 04 at 9:17am

In the "old" days, when half of the boats were still made in wood, but a few brave souls were trying out new GRP and FRP boats.... when they used to win there was:

 

"Wood is good, but glass is fast".

 

And in the same (hiking) classes: No pain, No Gain.



Posted By: Haggis
Date Posted: 10 Jun 04 at 10:42am

Hers's another:

Again on a Mumm 30 race course by a certain member of the North Sails Team

"As slippery as an eel in a bucket of snot"



Posted By: Susan Lut
Date Posted: 10 Jun 04 at 11:04am

This is one i always hear from sailing lads but i can't work out what they are going on about?

Every no is one step closer to a yes!

Anybody got any idea?

Susan xx



Posted By: Phil eltringham
Date Posted: 10 Jun 04 at 11:59am

Durham Uni SC have:

"Our Drinking Team has a Sailing Problem"

on the back of their t-shirts, they don't win much but its quite apt. 



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Posted By: Doctor Clifford
Date Posted: 10 Jun 04 at 12:49pm
did anyone spot the 'really hard to spot' haggis
mumm 30 name drops??!!!!!!!!

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Posted By: Haggis
Date Posted: 10 Jun 04 at 1:28pm

Originally posted by Doctor Clifford

did anyone spot the 'really hard to spot' haggis
mumm 30 name drops??!!!!!!!!

Oi!

Don't give the game away, take two of your own tablets, chill mate



Posted By: Gael
Date Posted: 11 Jun 04 at 9:56am
Originally posted by Haggis

Lets see if we can get this going now that
we are in the season:


 


Heard on a Mumm 30 race course


 
"Where smoking! - and i am not talking about in a coffee shop
in Amsterdam"


Gael over to you



I thought it was 'We're smoking and I'm not talking coffee
shops in Amsterdam!' Not from me I might add, wish my tongue
was that sharp!


Posted By: brys
Date Posted: 11 Jun 04 at 10:25am

Seen on a folically challenged sailing buddie's T shirt recently:

 

THE MORE HAIR I LOOSE
THE MORE HEAD I GET!



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Posted By: brys
Date Posted: 11 Jun 04 at 3:43pm

Heard from an port tack American crew recently:

 

"CARRY-ON! WE'RE ALL OVER, THEM LIKE STINK ON SH*T!



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Posted By: Gael
Date Posted: 01 Jul 04 at 3:42pm
Heard on an SB3 race course in response to a call for a penalty turn:

'Sorry, we're English, we don't do penalties!'


Posted By: Croff
Date Posted: 03 Jul 04 at 1:34am
After watching the dvd Higher and Faster, i heard them saying "cocka rocking" which is a tad strange, though i was always told each to their own. 

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Posted By: Crammo
Date Posted: 09 Jul 04 at 4:43pm

For all those at the rear of the fleets

"To Win is to gain Knowledge and enjoyment out of experience and challenge"

George



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Posted By: 2savage
Date Posted: 19 Jul 04 at 6:31pm

Heard at the bar of Manhasset Bay YC at the beginning of an event...

"Before you do any more bragging just remember, everyone is Fred Astaire until the music starts".

Cowes, Island Sailing Club back in the 1970's.....

First sailor "Sorry about that little incident at the start Arthur.  Do you think I should have withdrwan?"

Arthur  "I think your Father should have!"

 



Posted By: neilw
Date Posted: 27 Jul 04 at 4:04pm

and taken from the Austalian International Canoe site ( http://users.hunterlink.net.au/%7Edfed/index.html - http://users.hunterlink.net.au/%7Edfed/index.html ).......

Anything else is like kissing your sister



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Posted By: headfry
Date Posted: 27 Jul 04 at 4:58pm

The wise folks at my inland club say....

If you see a hot air balloon.  DON'T SAIL!!  Big smile

 



Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 28 Jul 04 at 9:06am

Me on Sunday morning......

Urm....Thirslet Spit is around here somewhere........Crunch......

 



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Posted By: Matt Lingley
Date Posted: 28 Jul 04 at 7:34pm

Ha ha, so you were that inter to windward of us before we hit.... In our case it was "Funny looking patch of water.....O F***!!" Followed by some hanging over the back of the boat to tie down the port rudder, the impact stripped the thread on the strut that holds it down....



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Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 28 Jul 04 at 8:24pm

Matt,

I think I was fairly lucky - I had my plates well up, I was not going that fast (about 13 Kts - GPS so tide included, very rapidly down to about 5 kts) and then had to do a sharp bear off (30 deg from GPS) to put both rudders back down.  No real damage except a little filler reqd....

Ho hum...

 

 



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Posted By: Gael
Date Posted: 29 Jul 04 at 10:47am
I think you were very lucky - hit Thirslet once racing a 30-footer, the
boats either side had lifting keels... sat there all day on our own
private island which could have been quite pleasant if a crowd of jet skit
hadn't decided to spend the day racing in circles around us!


Posted By: fizzicist
Date Posted: 09 Aug 04 at 1:00pm

It may not be a quote per se, but every time we arrive to see that it's blowing its tits off, the shout of 'BIG MORK' goes out across the dinghy park.

 

 

(Mork & Mindy in case you hadn't guessed)



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Posted By: Lucy Lee
Date Posted: 09 Aug 04 at 2:06pm

 When we sail, the wind strengths get graded as:

The Light Stuff: 0-10 knots

The Right Stuff: 11-25 knots

The White Stuff: 26 + knots

The border between the right stuff & the white stuff clearly depends on where you sail...  



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Posted By: Haggis
Date Posted: 09 Aug 04 at 5:06pm

Another one from a dead pan member of a major sail loft

Crew1 - What are we doing after the next mark
Crew2 - Putting the kite up and gybing

---Scroll down for punch line ---

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sails Man - You generally do downwind



Posted By: Chris Noble
Date Posted: 26 Nov 04 at 8:19pm

Heard during an awesome aussi skiff vid

(picture ; 18 foot skiff pitch poling into massive swell)

 

"Sound the claxon horn, they're going under!"



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Posted By: lozza
Date Posted: 30 Nov 04 at 9:14am

the 505 class used to have the catch phrase:

Life's a reach, then you gybe!



Posted By: grahamd
Date Posted: 29 Jan 05 at 12:07am

Attributed to Paul Elvstrom, when another competitor told him he was lucky to be on the right side of the course when the wind came in:

"The more I practice, the luckier I get"



Posted By: Jamie
Date Posted: 29 Jan 05 at 2:11am

http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes/indquote.php?quotid=2988 - Arnold Palmer on the site it's linked to, But Iv'e no Idea who said it first.

 



Posted By: Yann
Date Posted: 01 Feb 05 at 1:49pm

"you've got to trust me guys, the depth on that computers wrong, were NOT over the brambles...."

Im fairly sure we always had 6 inches under the keel, but it was a bit scary.



Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 01 Feb 05 at 4:48pm

Contender slogan:-

"Hiking is for hill-walkers!"



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Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 01 Feb 05 at 7:12pm
trapezing is for lazy people!!!

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Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 01 Feb 05 at 7:19pm
nah just the cool ones


Posted By: Harry44981!
Date Posted: 01 Feb 05 at 7:42pm

''trapezing is practised by lazy people and circus freaks- sailing gives these lazy people another chance to behave like they're in a circus!''



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Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 02 Feb 05 at 8:20am

Originally posted by sailor girl

trapezing is for lazy people!!!

No argument from me. Why walk to work when you have a car?

Not sure about the freaks thing tho, why would anyone normal want to put themselves though such pain on the upwind legs - and the grunting and groaning from the Laser boys we pass sounds a bit like the sad/mad/mistreated animals from the circus.



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Posted By: Blobby
Date Posted: 02 Feb 05 at 8:47am

Hiking is a no-brainer...

no brain = no pain. 

(And anyone who can stand being in the gym long enough to be fit enough not to find hiking painful has obviously had a frontal lobotomy...)



Posted By: rogerd
Date Posted: 02 Feb 05 at 10:54am

Of course youve all forgotten the best way to keep a boat upright.

Sliding seat.



Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 02 Feb 05 at 1:07pm
that's lazy as well!


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Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 02 Feb 05 at 2:42pm
id say a lazy person wouldnt be bothered trapezing or hiking, theyd just let it turtle and have a quick snooze on the upturned hull...

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Posted By: sailor girl
Date Posted: 02 Feb 05 at 4:34pm
says the guy who doesn't have a boat...

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Posted By: bISOtted
Date Posted: 02 Feb 05 at 6:03pm

no lazy people buy a single wire boat so the crew does all the "ballast" work and the helm lays back in his/her armchair at the back and occasionally when they feel energetic they call for a tack!!


Posted By: ianwat2212
Date Posted: 02 Feb 05 at 7:54pm
Ahh yes, thats the way 2 sail!!!

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Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 03 Feb 05 at 8:00am

Originally posted by bISOtted


no lazy people buy a single wire boat so the crew does all the "ballast" work and the helm lays back in his/her armchair at the back and occasionally when they feel energetic they call for a tack!!

Is that how it's supposed to work on a single wire boat? I'll have to sort out my crewing arrangements



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Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 03 Feb 05 at 4:00pm

Originally posted by sailor

]says the guy who doesn't have a boat...

i dont really see how that is relevant here?



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Posted By: TomEagle
Date Posted: 03 Feb 05 at 10:23pm

My personal favourite is the classic, "sailors like it rough and hard, so when it swells ride it" or "hold on to the sheets and get ready for a wet and wild ride"



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Posted By: moomin
Date Posted: 04 Feb 05 at 8:55am

from uni team racing days I believe that all Top Gun antics should be banned for a start

"Slam on the brakes and he'll fly right" by never works, they just overtake you and trying to buzz the committee in a firefly doesn't really work the same as it does in the film, no matter how far back in the boat you sit fireflys don't plane!



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Posted By: Jon Emmett
Date Posted: 04 Feb 05 at 1:09pm
Originally posted by moomin

from uni team racing days I believe that all Top Gun antics should be banned for a start

"Slam on the brakes and he'll fly right" by never works, they just overtake you and trying to buzz the committee in a firefly doesn't really work the same as it does in the film, no matter how far back in the boat you sit fireflys don't plane!

 

Oh dear last year our team racing team was called 'Miramar'

( http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/default2.asp?section=11&article=15511 - http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/default2.asp?section=11& ;article=15511 )...



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Posted By: Lucy Lee
Date Posted: 04 Feb 05 at 5:57pm

Hmm, when I was team racing 'hit the brakes and he'll fly right by' was used at the gybe mark to try to catch the guy behind out so he'd touch your transom. As the 'overtaking' boat he'd take a penalty.

I wouldn't advise this in fighter jets, might be a bit more expensive than gelcoat repairs to the stem of a 28 year old lark!

I've remembered another Cherub saying: Helm to Crew when getting onto wire after the hoist "Take the helm Chewy and I'll make the jump to light speed" (If I've got the exact phrase wrong I feel sure some Star-Wars anorak will correct me...)



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Posted By: Bruce Starbuck
Date Posted: 06 Feb 05 at 7:15pm
We say "BEANS!" when a big hike is needed, and "UNLEASH THE FURY!" when a really big and sustained hike is needed!


Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 10 Feb 05 at 10:17pm
if its going to be a windy race i just offer big man a pint if  he flat hikes the whole race, less work for me, and it always works

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Posted By: frankie_is_sad
Date Posted: 19 Feb 05 at 1:16pm
If sailings getting you down...
turn that frown upside down.
have you seen the light?
Our spandex boats are tighter than tight!



Posted By: frankie_is_sad
Date Posted: 19 Feb 05 at 1:20pm
"Stupid Stupid me" -Ellen Macarthur 2005


Posted By: bigwavedave
Date Posted: 19 Feb 05 at 3:44pm
Oh dear, some one else who seems intent on getting a load of free advertising this time for spandex.  Frankie, it's been tried before and you are doing yourself no favours.  BORING

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Posted By: Wave Rider
Date Posted: 21 Feb 05 at 5:42pm

What is Spandex i thought it was that thing the bloke on Little Britain so somehow i don't think we're all going to decide to wear it in our boats.......Funny as that would look !!!

 

Lol suggest that next year we have the annual Spandex Race hmmmm NO !  



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Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 21 Feb 05 at 5:44pm
yeah isnt spandex the stuff that spiderman wears?

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Posted By: Wave Rider
Date Posted: 21 Feb 05 at 5:47pm

Lol

 



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Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 21 Feb 05 at 6:20pm
i'll stick to my decent kit none of that spandex rubbish

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Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 24 Feb 05 at 4:19pm
There is Spandex in rash vests!

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Posted By: Gael
Date Posted: 01 Mar 05 at 2:59pm
Some people are very self critical, a friend recently commented that he
wasn't really built for crewing trapeze boats describing his trapezing
style as 'like an elephant' - the picture had me in giggles... can't imagine
elephants could trapeze at all, where would they get a harness to fit for
starters?????


Posted By: ghotio
Date Posted: 01 Mar 05 at 3:46pm

Something I found slightly amusing was a quote from Nick Maloney on his recent round the world antics talking to a Frenchman on a VHF interview after a serious knock down.

He was asked what it was like down below afterwards. He described how a tub full of his note paper had come open.

"I don't know if you're aware but in England we have this phrase 'Papier Mâchè' it was like that."



Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 01 Mar 05 at 4:56pm

Nice - like my favourite quote of Dubya's (True or not true depending who you ask):-

"The problem with the French, is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."



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Posted By: 505 CW
Date Posted: 01 Mar 05 at 6:32pm
2 top quotes:

"All the gear, and no idea", Ian Barker about someone like me, I expect...!

And my all time fave, is Billy Masterman's legendary comments after he and Jeremy Robinson won the 505 Worlds at Mount's Bay in 1995.

Q: "Why do you think that you and Jeremy won then Bill?"
A: "Well champ, basically we won because the other boats were slower than we were........".

Give that man a drink!


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Posted By: hydrographer20
Date Posted: 01 Mar 05 at 8:34pm
lol those are all so funny hmm im  going to have to think of 1 to beat that now arent i?  ill come back to you in that

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Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 05 Mar 05 at 1:17am

Back to how this one started almost anything Jim Soltensal says can be put down on here. He has a lot of quotes which at the mo i cant rememeber, but one word of adive if anyone gets trained by him dont put any drink that you are drinking down infront of him, it wont b there anylonger.



Posted By: Soton_Speed
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 9:37pm

(stolen from another sailing site!)

While running a charter boat in St Thomas USVI.

1. Guest asked "how do these islands stay here"? To which I replied, "well mam
they (the islands) have two big anchors, one at either end. Thats the
reason airfares are cheaper in the summer, because of the warmer weather,
we are able to move the islands North".

2. Another question asked. "Do you and your crew live here"? "No mam we fly in
from the mainland every morning".

3. Upon looking over a harbor full of anchored boats,a guest asked:

"Is it proper nautical etiquette for everyone to have their boat facing the
same way while parked in harbor?"

The answer: "The owners get fined if their boats don't face the same
direction".

4. A very large lady and her husband where on a day charter boat with about
fifty other guests. Her husband decided to go snorkelling, just before he
left the boat, his wife handed him two empty plastic water bottles and
asked. "Bob, get me some of that light blue water over there and some of
the darker blue water over there"!



Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 11 Mar 05 at 10:28pm
Oh classic.

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Posted By: Tornado_ALIVE
Date Posted: 12 Mar 05 at 12:38pm

When its windy......

Its blowing dogs of chains..... or its blowing the numbers of the sails.

Rides like this set boats and sailors appart...... often tearing them appart.

My old Tae Kwon Do instructor's favorite line was "It's only pain......  It doesnt hurt".  Did not make sense to me but I was not about to argue.



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Posted By: sargethesailor
Date Posted: 16 Mar 05 at 8:37pm

I have always liked the Harold Cudmorism's

Kicking mainsheet trimmer whilst steering and therefore at back " Pass it on!"

and as my keelboat helm is often heard to say

"I'll just point the boat over here while you guys catch up"

We had the last laugh though when at the Worlds he called for a gybe shortly after rounding the spreader - we were down the pan a little.  The move begun and we executed a lovely gybe - only to find he had changed his mind and we were starting to head back on the other gybe -

Cue - almost in unison -

"We'll just trim the sails over here while you catch up with us"

Crew relaxed and off we went - back to a pretty good placing!

 



Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 16 Mar 05 at 9:04pm
LOL, glad u got back at him.

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Posted By: Brian
Date Posted: 29 Mar 05 at 8:54am

my mum (to me): put on a jumper u look freezing

me: im so hot im in a torpor

my dad: whats that, some kind of a small sailboat?



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Posted By: lemeouttahere
Date Posted: 18 Apr 05 at 8:44pm

from our clubs site:

This is the transcript of the ACTUAL radio conversation of a U.S. naval ship with the Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland, October 1995.

Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95.

Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North.

Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.

Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN. THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT
YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTERMEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.

Canadians: We're a lighthouse. Your call.



Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 18 Apr 05 at 9:29pm
Old......But good

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Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 18 Apr 05 at 10:06pm
lol

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Posted By: hydrographer20
Date Posted: 18 Apr 05 at 10:33pm
ahh thats a classic

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Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 19 Apr 05 at 9:17pm
Thats excelent

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Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 21 Apr 05 at 3:27pm
Bet you the Americans still kept on going

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Posted By: Graham Iles
Date Posted: 23 Apr 05 at 12:50pm
Bowman to Skipper at Cowes week: Just tell me when you're going to gybe and I'll put it in my diary. Next Thursday is good for me.

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Posted By: lemeouttahere
Date Posted: 25 Apr 05 at 12:53pm

no really a quot but a laugh,

Getting ready for the new season?
Need a training guide?

Try this?

PRESEASON REFRESHER COURSE:

To best prepare yourself for the sailing season try these quick exercises:
1. Buy a case of beer, sit with it in a very warm place for a few hours,
then drink it.
2. Apply sunscreen to your face in streaks and sit in front of a sun lamp
for 2 hours.
3. Sit on a bench with large metal fixtures cutting into your legs, stare
straight up into the sun for two hours - for a more robust workout: invite 
friends to come over and yell at you the whole time.         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;         & nbsp;  4. Go out and get
very drunk, sleep 4 hours, then stand on a rocking chair for 6 hours.
5. Go to bank and withdraw $1,000 - then light it on fire.
6. Sit in front of a commercial fan and have someone throw large buckets of
salt water on you.
7. Repeat number 6 in jeans and a sweatshirt and /or repeat number 6 with
head turned sideways to ensure water lodging fully into ear drum.
8. Cut limb off nearby tree, tie ropes to it, stand on rocking chair with
tree limb and ropes - hold them over your head for 3 hours... at 5 minute
intervals drop on your head - more robust version: have friends yell at you
in 6 minute intervals.
9. Set your wrist watch to 5-minute repeating counts ... let it go off all
day long.
10. Pour cold water in your lap and give yourself a wedgie, now alternate
between sitting and running around bent over.
11. Tie ropes between 2 trees - push your body against them as hard as you
can for 6 consecutive hours - don't stop for pain or bruising.
12. Place sandpaper on your stairs, crawl up and down on your knees for
several hours.
13. Make 12 sandwiches on white bread with bad meat and cram them into a
bread bag - eat one a day for 12 consecutive days... make sure the last one
is peanut butter and jelly if preparing for Race Week.
14. Tie ropes to rear bumper of friend's car, hold on tightly, but allow
rope to slip through fingers as car drives away - TIP: works best with
nylon fiber ropes, lengths in excess of 50'.
15. Upon completion of previous 14 drills - sit down and drink 14 Mt Gay
rum drinks, any flavor.



Posted By: lemeouttahere
Date Posted: 25 Apr 05 at 1:06pm




Amidships - condition of being surrounded by boats. 

Anchor - a device designed to bring up mud samples from the bottom at inopportune or  unexpected times. 

Anchor Light - a small light used to discharge the battery before daylight. 

Berth - a little addition to the crew. 

Boom - sometimes the result of a surprise jibe. 

Bottom Paint - what you get when the cockpit seats are freshly painted. 

Chart - a type of map which tells you exactly where you are aground. 

Clew - an indication from the skipper as to what he might do next. 

Companionway - a double berth. 

Dead Reckoning - a course leading directly to a reef. 

Deadrise - getting up to check the anchor at 0300. 

Deviation - any departure from the Captain’s orders. 

Dinghy - the sound of the ship’s bell. 

Displacement - when you dock your boat and can’t find it later. 

Estimated Position - a place you have marked on the chart where you are sure you are not. 

First Mate - crew member necessary for skippers to practice shouting instructions to. 

Foul Wind - breeze produced by flying turkey.

Freeboard - food and liquor supplied by the owner. 

Headway - what you are making if you can’t get the toilet to work. 

Heave-Ho - what you do when you’ve eaten too much Ho. 

Jibe - either you like it or you don’t and it gets you. 

Keel - term used by 1st mate after too much heel by skipper. 

Landlubber - anyone on board who wishes he were not. 

Latitude - the number of degrees off course allowed a guest. 

Mast - religious ritual used before setting sail.

Mizzen - an object you can’t find. 

Ram - an intricate docking maneuver sometimes used by experienced skippers. 

Rhumb Line - two or more crew members waiting for a drink. 

Sheet - cool, damp, salty night covering.

Shroud - equipment used in connection with a wake. 

Starboard - special board used by skippers for navigation(usually with "Port" on the opposite  side.) 

Swell - a wave that’s just great.  

Square Rigger - a rigger over 30. 



Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 25 Apr 05 at 1:08pm
would go better in funny emails thread.

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Posted By: 49erGBR735HSC
Date Posted: 25 Apr 05 at 1:27pm
Ha ha, just thought of what we were saying yesterday after a few inversions. "We MEANT to do it cos' we needed to keep the drinks cool in the bag!"

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Helensburgh S.C
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