What is your favorite nautical/boat term?

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Mine are a toss up between tumblehome and cutwater.

Boatin&#39; in VA! · Accepted Answer

great question trunorth!

mine? guess it would have to be "shoving off"

Why? Leaving the marina and headed out onto the water!

Anonymous · Answer

My all time baseball song is Centerfield walk-walk On- Roy Orbison, Walkin' To New Orleans- fat Domino single Double- Double imaginative and prescient- Foreigner Triple homestead- Homesick- practice, homestead-Breaking Benjamin Run-Run to your life- The Beatles,Run in the time of the Jungle-CCR Ball Strike Out BQ-Baseball and soccer BQ2-Baseball BQ3-we can Rock You

tom · Answer

Bumpkin

jtexas · Answer

I like saying "abaft the beam", but it hardly ever comes up in conversation.

Joey Bagadonuts · Answer

I've always liked "pintles and gudgeons" since I heard in years ago in that old 1941 Abbott and Costello film..."In The Navy"

http://www.rigrite.com/Hardware/Rudder_Hardware/Pintles&Gudgeons.htm

The other term I like is...."freeboard". 

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/218483/freeboard


"Ahoy"! is also fun.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2027/whats-the-origin-of-ahoy


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seattlesailor2000 · Answer

as the skipper is tacking a sailboat he yells to the crew

"Hard-a-lee"

to tell the crew he is tacking or jibing the boat.

Charlie · Answer

The dogwatch

they call it a dogwatch because it is curtailed

(Patrick O'Brian)

Anonymous · Answer

There is only one answer to this question!!!

"Splice the Mainbrace"

Anonymous · Answer

Tacking!
Sounds cool.
: )

What is your favorite nautical/boat term?

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