Brush Up On Your Nautical Vocabulary, Summer is Coming

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Lines, cleats, knots, docks vs floats, piers, pilings, starboard, port, nav rules, buoys, splice, waterways, deep water, charts, pfds, and on and on and on. There is a completely language to know by the sea.

Thank the seagulls for the shells on the float. (They do add interest to the photograph.)

Don’t call a line a rope or you will show your landlubber status. So when is it ok for it to be a rope?

Since when is Port not something for sipping?

You must also not assume that the Captain’s mate is his/her spouse or significant other.

Thank goodness for cleats when you don’t know how to properly tie sailors’ knots. A clove hitch, cleat hitch, half hitch, bowline, and all those “bend” ones – you need a book for knots alone.

Boating time is near; brush up on your nautical vocabulary. Especially, remember your PFD – that’s a life jacket or Personal Flotation Device if you need a translation. (Not a PDF computer file; you won’t need that.)

I’ll stick with taking photos of lines and knots.

This is a cleat if you missed that day in nautical school – not a hook. The line is spliced and looped on the cleat.

How am I doing so far?

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