How do you recognise a sailor?
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Topic: How do you recognise a sailor?
Posted By: Ginge
Subject: How do you recognise a sailor?
Date Posted: 19 Jul 12 at 8:28pm
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If you were in the bar what would be a tell tale sign that they are a sailor?
I'll start with having an expensive pair of glasses with a manky piece of string lashed to them ------------- Laser |
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Posted By: ellistine
Date Posted: 19 Jul 12 at 8:33pm
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When the SB3's were having their big event at WPNSA a few weeks ago there were noticeable groups of no more than three men wandering around town - usually with a branded jacket, sometimes a yellow hood. ------------- |
Posted By: Contender 541
Date Posted: 19 Jul 12 at 8:33pm
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It's honking down and blowing a hoolie The sailor is the one is shorts and a jumper and deck shoes ------------- When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss Crew on 505 8780 |
Posted By: Contender 541
Date Posted: 19 Jul 12 at 8:35pm
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How to spot a dinghy sailor ------------- When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss Crew on 505 8780 |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 19 Jul 12 at 8:37pm
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stupid tan lines on the legs just below the knee and just above the ankle weathered face and bleached (by the sun) hair, not towie bleached though ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 19 Jul 12 at 8:53pm
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Red Mount lame Rum cap. |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 19 Jul 12 at 8:54pm
| It won't let me say G a y! It changes it to lame. Big Brother is watching me.... |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 19 Jul 12 at 8:54pm
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So, try again. RED MOUNT G A Y CAP!!
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Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 19 Jul 12 at 8:57pm
| Can someone else try? Is it just me? SHould I be paranoid? |
Posted By: Mister Nick
Date Posted: 19 Jul 12 at 8:58pm
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I'd say yachties are easier to recognise than dinghy sailors. The trademark 'dubarrys with shorts and occasionally leggings' look is a dead giveaway. ;)
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Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 9:07am
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How do you spot a 'sailor' ? So, dinghy or big boat? I wouldn't say Gee Eh Why, they're generally not stylish enough for that tag. It also depends on what class, from socks in sandals and bearded Merlin wallers to Dunlop Green Flash and marks & sparks big issue selling GP14 ers. The watch however is normally a big give away and whatever they might think wandering around with a great yellow alarm clock strapped to your wrist or arms it's not kewell, sorry you look like a dick. Nor is wearing anything with a male chickens name another of which is simply cock, which you are if you wear that stuff. Gil? Gill? aren't they what fish use to breath, why would you wear it as a badge? Sorry Richard you're still going to have your named shortened. Musto? Musto what? It must mean something else, whatever it is it sounds stupid, don't have it on your body. And the latest SLAM, come one, it's too late in the day SLAM it's '80's skate speak and trying too hard, it's right up there with dare 2 bee the lamest label that ever attempted to grace the ski slopes. If you must label up to declare your sailing interest try and be subtle buy stuff from those bods that used to make gear out of recycled sails. Forget their name they have a store in Whitstabule now. And yotties and dubarrys, don't get me started...
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Posted By: winging it
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 9:51am
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that Gee Ay Y transformation into lame really peeves me. sailors - the ones with bruises, cut knees, blistered hands, bad backs, weird tan lines, finger breaking hand shakes, and yes, never dress for the weather. ------------- the same, but different... |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 10:06am
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But if course you are talking about real sailors there nessa. Usually wearing relatively understated well worn gear.
Don't forget there are the fake ones who chamber aboard a yot once a year with a large gin and have call the designer gear without a mark on it. Usually accompanied by blue deck shoes and a jumper casually tied around the neck/shoulders, having forgotten that this look should have disappeared when Howards Way finished. Oh and an incredibly loud voice that in reality screams "look at me, I'm a yotter with loads of money" ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 10:20am
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Posted By: Oli
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 12:33pm
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by their hamble w*nker jacket (a coat with no sleeves) ------------- https://skiff-media.teemill.com/" rel="nofollow - T-SHIRTS https://www.photo4me.com/profile/23908/" rel="nofollow - PRINTS |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 12:59pm
Now removed from the word filter - you can now write gay |
Posted By: G.R.F.
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 1:21pm
Does anyone else find it ironic that a thread called 'How do you recognise a sailor' has lead to official permission for us to type the word gay without let or hindrance in future. ------------- https://www.ease-distribution.com/" rel="nofollow - https://www.ease-distribution.com/ |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 1:25pm
Nothing's lost on you is it! |
Posted By: SoggyBadger
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 1:33pm
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Just goes to the show the way to recognise a sailor is look for a loud-mouthed homophobe. Mark, I'm disappointed that you should so willing accommodate such people. It shows how backward your sport is. ------------- Best wishes from deep in the woods SB |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 1:37pm
This one amused me - exactly what I'm currently wearing! |
Posted By: tickler
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 2:50pm
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Last year I spent some time at a well known yacht club because dinghies were racing in the bay. I wondered what all these over weight bad complexioned, drunken blokes were stumbling about. They were big boat sailors waiting for the tide! |
Posted By: craiggo
Date Posted: 20 Jul 12 at 7:58pm
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Try sitting in Gatwick airport departure lounge for the Antigua flight, and you wont fail to spot the newly qualified Yachtmasters off to sample the Caribbean with Sunsail.
The give aways are: Grey or Beige sailing trousers with black reinforced seat and knees (Who knew that the seats on a First Choice flight would be coated in non-slip and have gallons of water thrown on them during the flight!) Musto or Gill crew jackets, Sunnies on the top of their head (even though its 5:30 in the morning!!!!) and of course deckies. As if this wasn't enough they insist on discussing their recent yachtmaster qualification at 120dB so that the entire terminal can hear them. It would appear that recently qualified yachtmasters also have to take a course in how to be a pompous arse. Dinghy sailors going on a Sunsail flotilla holiday generally pass under the radar unless you look carefully at the watch! |
Posted By: patj
Date Posted: 21 Jul 12 at 6:16am
| Want-to-be-yotties - women in smart white trousers and gold bling - how does anyone keep white trousers clean on a boat? |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 21 Jul 12 at 7:38am
Their idea of yotting is sat on the sun deck of a 60 footer running twin penta diesels while sipping g&t served by a strapping man servant. Don't get dirty then. ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 21 Jul 12 at 8:14am
| ... depends on your definition of dirty I guess... not much is black and white: shades of Gray in all things... |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 21 Jul 12 at 8:19am
50 of them if a recent literary masterpiece is to be believed..... ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: tickler
Date Posted: 21 Jul 12 at 8:29am
| We have such a strange variety of members at our club that it would be hard to recognise them as sailors in civy street. 3 plumbers, 2 professors, 2 millionaires, 2 railway signalers, teachers, I.T, radio producer.....you name it and we have it. But .......we have a new member who came down to sail on Wednesday. A tall thin man in his forties. The kind of bloke who wears walking boots as a fashion item. He dragged out one of the rotting club lazers and proceeded to cut two squares out of a sleeping mat, you know, the camping things and stick them on the side decks with silver tape. He then splashed round badly for a bit, put the boat away and went home. There was no sign of limping or disability and when he was spoken to he offered no explanation. Very odd, sailors. |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 21 Jul 12 at 9:48am
If the lady yotter was reading that I doubt that she would go anywhere near anything resembling a boat so no dirty white trousers for her ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 21 Jul 12 at 8:07pm
If she were to go on a boat, I believe the correct term is 'deck fluff', not 'lady yotter' |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 22 Jul 12 at 12:07am
You can tell i know nothing about yots then....how embarrassing ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: timeintheboat
Date Posted: 22 Jul 12 at 8:29am
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The ability to look untidy with some really expensive gear on - but never ever wear socks. Be slightly deaf so in the bar you have to talk loud and take up a lot of space. ------------- Like some other things - sailing is more enjoyable when you do it with someone else |
Posted By: fleaberto
Date Posted: 23 Jul 12 at 3:34pm
If a random person comes up to me in the street/a bar/a shop and asks: "...could you just zip me up please?"  ------------- Lightning368 'All the Gear' (409), Lightning368 'Sprite' (101), Laser (big number) 'Yellow Jack', RS Vareo (432)'The Golden Rays' |
Posted By: Ginge
Date Posted: 23 Jul 12 at 6:31pm
Seems perfectly normal to me ;) ------------- Laser |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 23 Jul 12 at 8:17pm
It when you respond in a positive manner to the opposite (down instead of up) that questions start to get asked  ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 23 Jul 12 at 9:30pm
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Generically speaking- the Oakley white outline and beetroot red face was always a giveaway- outside of ski season anyway.
As for other stereotypes- graeme's got it spot on, except he neglected to decry the Henri Lloyd brand, that square jawed good-looking lad who models for it and its associated chavtastic / weatherspoon drinking townie juxtaposition that 'they' really sold us out to. |
Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 24 Jul 12 at 5:03pm
| "Generically speaking- the Oakley white outline and beetroot red face was always a giveaway- outside of ski season anyway."... unfortunately it's also a very acurate description of a whole host of "Wiggo-alikes", me included, after this weeked. |
Posted By: pondmonkey
Date Posted: 24 Jul 12 at 6:08pm
| At first glance maybe- but there's a subtle difference between the M Frame and Oakley Fives sunburn stamp! |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 17 Oct 12 at 11:09am
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We now have the answer....  |
Posted By: Mark Jardine
Date Posted: 17 Oct 12 at 12:46pm
maxibuddah is running dangerously close to having a certain photo of him from Saturday morning being published on this site for putting that photo online! 
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Posted By: ex laser
Date Posted: 17 Oct 12 at 12:55pm
what a style statement! ------------- |
Posted By: maxibuddah
Date Posted: 17 Oct 12 at 1:35pm
I only posted it once mark, not my fault if others keep reposting it. Anyway it's not a great surprise to see a Phantom sailor stuffing his face with a pasty is it? You dressed as a giant green bottle dancing to the tune of dbd to turn the lights on was ------------- Everything I say is my opinion, honest |
Posted By: Dougal
Date Posted: 17 Oct 12 at 5:00pm
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I had no idea who it was in the suit when I copied it in (although i would have still reposted it if I had known! Nice shot maxi). |