Knowing the ropes.
Posted: Fri May 22, 2020 3:18 pm
It’s *+-&# raining here again and I’m wanting to finish polishing the battleship. Just stopped for a while and came across this. Remember I have cabin fever . 
https://classic-sailing.co.uk/article/h ... ropes-boat
I used to say there is only one “rope” on a sailing boat which is hidden inside the sails so you can’t see the basket
, the BOLTROPE “. I am apparently ronge, ronge, ronge. There are five .
In a recent post I mentioned an “anchor line” which I knew was wrong but for the life of me the old brainbox could not remember WARP. Frankly, and the purists will crucify me here, the issue with sailing nomenclature, ( I won’t call it jargon, which is calling a genoa a jenny) is that the primary function of language is to communicate. If dealing with an infrequent, amateur or guest crew which many of us are you will keep them longer and on better terms if you come to grips with the fact that they have bugger all interest in learning the names of all the bits and bobs on your toy . I learned that thirty years ago.
There is a terrible article in a back issue of Afloat about a sinking of a large vessel owing to a misinterpretation during the changeover period of navigation commands. I’ll see if I can track it down tonight. Best example of what I’m yakking about.
Anyway I thought here might be a good example of a spot to list the NAMES of all the lines on a vessel or at least an Investigator.
This is a game, first one we’ve ever had on the forum. You get THREE per post
so the quicker you get in the easier it will be. I’ll kick it off with one.
Anchor rope ....WARP
Off course the following site will give you all manner of subtleties on that word.
https://en.mimi.hu/boating/anchor_warp.html
See how hard it is for the novice!!!
You win by being the last person to post with a line name no one thought of.
Oh yeah, the winner gets my old password to TSCOM , not that it’s there any more
https://classic-sailing.co.uk/article/h ... ropes-boat
I used to say there is only one “rope” on a sailing boat which is hidden inside the sails so you can’t see the basket
, the BOLTROPE “. I am apparently ronge, ronge, ronge. There are five . In a recent post I mentioned an “anchor line” which I knew was wrong but for the life of me the old brainbox could not remember WARP. Frankly, and the purists will crucify me here, the issue with sailing nomenclature, ( I won’t call it jargon, which is calling a genoa a jenny) is that the primary function of language is to communicate. If dealing with an infrequent, amateur or guest crew which many of us are you will keep them longer and on better terms if you come to grips with the fact that they have bugger all interest in learning the names of all the bits and bobs on your toy . I learned that thirty years ago.
There is a terrible article in a back issue of Afloat about a sinking of a large vessel owing to a misinterpretation during the changeover period of navigation commands. I’ll see if I can track it down tonight. Best example of what I’m yakking about.
Anyway I thought here might be a good example of a spot to list the NAMES of all the lines on a vessel or at least an Investigator.
This is a game, first one we’ve ever had on the forum. You get THREE per post
so the quicker you get in the easier it will be. I’ll kick it off with one.Anchor rope ....WARP
Off course the following site will give you all manner of subtleties on that word.
https://en.mimi.hu/boating/anchor_warp.html
See how hard it is for the novice!!!
You win by being the last person to post with a line name no one thought of.
Oh yeah, the winner gets my old password to TSCOM , not that it’s there any more
