I just learned a new nautical term!
Really?? You must not have ever pushed/towed a barge up the Chesapeake Bay. They are thick around Annapolis.
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Pilots around here like to call them rag whippers
Sheet FlappersâŠAt least they are easy to see. Itâs the kayaks that I spot for a moment in the fog that bother me.
We had a deckhand that came from tall ships and did a lot of sailing. He was with us for about six months before he clued in that our use of the term blowboaters was pejorative.
Letâs seeâŠBlowboats, Ragboats, Stickboats, tree-huggers; they are all slow, and are a motorboat when the iron is running!
However, the Maltese Falcon is still a fine vessel.
Whistlepissers⊠They would blow into port. Ask the price of fuel and whistle when told the price. Then ask to the use the head. Of course the price of fuel was always to much for them but the head was free. Iâve witnessed this many times when I use to work at a marina when I was a kid. And they never tipped. Blow boaters
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[QUOTE=Flag Officer;74057]I think Iâm the âCommodoreâ Jeff is talking about but I am just a Flag Officer. What Jeff dodnât mention is that Iâm also a lawyer and the county, under ordinance s 327.02, designates my yacht club the sole administer of moorings within a radious of the harbor. THATâs what gave me the right to order Jeff to move.
I respect pilots, my son is a Major in the Air Force, but flyIng over an anchorage with an aviation chart, while effective, DOES NOT make for a legal way to choose an anchor spot!!!
What rally gets my goat is Jeff insinuating that CruisersForum, where I AM a vice commodore. That site is THE most repected site for mariners, has lots of expert bluewater experts and has been around longer than gCaptain which Iâm just hearing about for the first time.
So you are wrong buddy!!![/QUOTE]
First time Iâve heard of cruisers forum and I am chairman of one of the most respected boat websites on the net. Let me guess, a bunch of know it all sail boaters?
ROTFLMAO!
You guys . . . . heh, heh . . .
Donât you know when youâre being wound up???
Flag Officer gets the Troll of the Year award for sure! My commodoreâs hat is off to him! Had you guys going for pages and pages . . . . 
I have found ORGAN DONOR to be an effective catch-all term for the lot of them.
Itâs hard to donate a purĂ©e
If you think in terms of percentage the encounters are not that many. If two or three sailboats maneuver wrongly thatâs only about 1 % if two or three hundred boats are about on a sunny day.
The hostility arises from cognitive bias; check out this article:âWhy you hate cyclistâ by Jim Saksa
Despite such statistics, lots of drivers assume all people on bikes are assholes like me. In doing so, these motorists are making an inductive fallacy, not unlike saying, âOf course he beat me at basketballâheâs Asian like Jeremy Lin and Yao Ming.â Now, you might be thinking to yourself that youâve seen more than one or two suicidal cyclists in your dayâthat these roaches on two wheels are an infestation thatâs practically begging to be squished underfoot (and by âfootâ you mean âmy Yukon Denaliâ).
First offâwow, that is disturbingly violent. Second, your estimate of the number of asshole cyclists and the degree of their assholery is skewed by what behavioral economists like Daniel Kahneman call the affect heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that people make judgments by consulting their emotions instead of logic.
K.C.
KA-ZINGA⊠The venting in this thread astounds me. I have worn both hats. 50,000 miles off shore in a 32 ft Ketch and 30 years as Master of a âTug of any sizeâ (Canadian Home Trade 1). My experience has been that most âYachtiesâ have respect for those that get paid to go to sea. A small number are âassholesâ but, so are some Masters, Mates and Pilots. I can only add that we are the professionals and it comes with the territory.
Oh Boy. Here we go again âŠ
I just laughed for 20 minutes reading all of this.
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[QUOTE=Kennebec Captain;83911]If you think in terms of percentage the encounters are not that many. If two or three sailboats maneuver wrongly thatâs only about 1 % if two or three hundred boats are about on a sunny day.
The hostility arises from cognitive bias; check out this article:âWhy you hate cyclistâ by Jim Saksa
K.C.[/QUOTE]
So THIS is why we Navy guys must, MUST - ALL be Fucked Up!
[QUOTE=+A465B;83922]Oh Boy. Here we go again âŠ[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but my post introduced a few new terms to the thread: cognitive bias, affect heuristic, and⊠assholery.
K.C.
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Itâs just easier to shoot dumbasses and say they were trespassing!
I believe the man is talking about a harbor pilot. Go figure a lawyer canât figure that one outâŠ
THANK YOU for the entertainment, I needed a good laugh.
Yacht Club types are in fact the most pompous idiots on the water and the âHarbor Patrolâ guys arenât much better. Then thereâs the âcruisersâ that make it down here where I live that still donât know anything. Then we get the guys that got their â6 packâ license and they are really hot stuff. If their GPS ever took a dump they couldnât find their ass with both hands an a flashlight. Itâs REALLY scary sometimes.
I will have to monitor this thread often to continue being entertained