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Re: Newbies
[Re: onlymedication]
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04/20/2015 03:44 PM
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dayhiker
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We made up names for different parts. There were some chrome hand holds we had fun with. Some were 180 degrees and others were 90. We dubbed them a half nipple and quarter nipple. They'd been hearing me make fun of names like wench and vang boom, so the nipple didn't raise an eyebrow. At the end of the trip, one of the ladies made reference to grabbing the quarter nipple and the rest of us just died laughing.
Last edited by dayhiker; 04/20/2015 05:25 PM.
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Re: Newbies
[Re: dayhiker]
#51173
04/20/2015 04:57 PM
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Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 8,530 Ya never know...
HillsideView
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Stop into your local auto parts store and pick up a rubber brake pedal cover. A little silicone adhesive will hold it in place and not leave any marks. Attach it in the helm area and tell them NOT to step on, it's the brake.
My foot fits right into my shoe and my shoe will fit right into your...
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Re: Newbies
[Re: HillsideView]
#51174
04/20/2015 05:01 PM
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Posts: 2,545 Here and There
rita_irvine
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Tell them the boat feels a little sluggish. Ask one of them to find the prop wash.
Rita It is better to be happy than it is to be right
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Re: Newbies
[Re: rstevens]
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04/20/2015 07:08 PM
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sail445
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Bring along a Bosuns chair for a grouchy guest and when your at the Bight grab a mooring near the Willy T tell him it's a safety harness and you're going to demonstrate its use then hook him up to the main halyard and bring him up to the spreaders and tie him off while everyone has Happy hour at the T Oh! Send someone back to pick him up <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Grin.gif" alt="" />
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Re: Newbies calibrating the radar
[Re: OneEyedJack]
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04/21/2015 09:57 PM
04/21/2015 09:57 PM
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Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,215 JAX
jphart
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Re calibrating the radar
OMG, I have tears <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/Yikes.gif" alt="" />coming down my face reading this for the third time!!
Can't wait to try this on my next trip in June! Already have foil on the packing list now. Only big question is who to pick as the victim! I better watch my back afterwards...but she may never catch on if we stand off the pier far enough! <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/jester.gif" alt="" />
Last edited by jphart; 04/21/2015 09:59 PM.
JPH I spent my money on booze, broads, and boats...the rest I wasted.
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Re: Newbies
[Re: OneEyedJack]
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04/25/2015 06:50 PM
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Posts: 1,482 Williamsville, NY
Dugg
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Hi Congratulations on the bucket of “prop wash”, the “relative bearing oil”/grease and “calibrate the radar”. I can think of lots of others (involving looking in the tool box, etc, or going to a ship’s store) : a binnacle alignment tool, the old left handed screwdriver/monkey wrench gag, green oil for the starboard lamp (or red oil for the port lamp), the famous “sky hook”, a mast crank (for going under a low bridge), a shore line stretcher, a can of elbow grease, a waterline eraser, a key to the chain locker, a bulk head straightener or a metric crescent wrench/screw driver. Of course a lot of them are old Navy jokes : standing the “Mail Buoy watch” (back when mail was delivered from another ship), getting 3 feet of gig line (or water line), or a tuning pipe for the fog horn. The things that people do out of boredom and out of sight of land! I’ve been on the other end of (or seen the equivalent) of several of the Air Force equivalents, e.g. 10 more feet of flight line. Peace Dugg & Chris Our VI pics are at http://picasaweb.google.com/papadugg/ - haven’t started on our ‘14 pics for Picasa. Having trouble getting ‘13 on the site
The sun and the sand and a drink in my hand with no bottom and no shoes, no shirt, and no problems...KC
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