Wood Motorboat Vocabulary

[leon bee]

Hello: Can y'all steer a newbie to some kind of glossary? Just dragged home a lapstrake outboard runabout. Keel, keelson, cheek, stem, knee, on and on. I've been reading the board here for a month or two in preparation, but hardly know enough to ask intelligent questions. I do know I'm gonna love wooden boats. Thanks!!

[thebob]

Cant help leon but cool member no.

[Donn]

Leon..here's a helpful link site:

Mother of all Maritime Links (http://www.boat-links.com/linklists/boatlink-19.html#words)

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Here's some that might be helpful.

Wooden Boat: an ancient biblical term that translates into "God thinks you have too much money"

Plank: a piece of wood that looks for the most part like some you would put on your fence or deck, but because it has to be cut from boula boula tree or something similiar, costs about as much as your first car did.

Inboard engine: a method of propulsion that is well known for an engine room that is physically incapable of crawling into without removing several layers of skin. Also well known for the creation of totally uncleanable areas that collect grunge in the extreme. See "oil drain plug"

Outboard engine: another method of propulsion that is much cleaner and more compact. Sells for approximately $1,237.00 a pound, hence a 200 horsepower engine costs twice as much as your whole boat did. Also, when a modern one breaks down, only people with engineering degrees in nuclear facility design can fix them.

Chandlery: a place that sells marine supplies. An ancient celtic word that means "ordinary things at four times the regular price"

Stem, Breasthook, keel, ribs, floors: If you know the meaning of these words, your boat has big gaping holes in it,your wife is severely pissed with you, and your neighbours think they've moved next door to Sanford and son.

Surveyor: A close relative of the undertaker. Tells you how to deal with something close to dying, but you have to live through it, and it costs a lot more.

Marina: A arab name from the oil industry meaning "overpriced fuel and hospitality for you and your fat camel."

Bronze: an ancient metal that apparently came before iron, but hasn't come down in price in thousands of years

[Alan D. Hyde]

Well done, PMJ.

Oh, too true.

And NOT that funny. :D My wallet still misses all those departed Presidents.

Alan

[Figment]

Originally posted by Peter Malcolm Jardine:

Marina: A arab name from the oil industry meaning "overpriced fuel and hospitality for you and your fat camel."
Maybe I've been living under a rock, but I hadn't heard that one before. That's hilarious!

[Donn]

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[John Bell]

I hope you don't mind, but I'm gonna this pass this one around. Brilliant! :D

[Nicholas Carey]

You might want to pick up a good boatbuilding book (like Seward's Boatbuilding Manual). The terminology you're talking about isn't particular to wooden runabouts. It pertains, pretty much, to all wooden boats.

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[leon bee]

Thanks guys. It must have been here on this board I read another definition of "wooden boat": "hole in the water into which you throw your money".