Nit Wits #36: Sale Boat Dec-31-2007
If it floats yer boat... by Chris Dunmire
I've never been to a boat store before. Oh, I've been in various sporting goods stores where they have small canoes and rubber rafts on display for sale, but I can't think of a time when I've seen a life-sized sail boat (sailboat?) in full upright open-sailnessness for sale in a store.
Where does one go to buy a sail boat? A surfboard shop? No, that's more like a skateboard without wheels and is sold in places with names like Ron Jon and Cutty Shark. Which reminds me, I have seen surfboards with sails. But I have not seen snails with sails or pails with nails.
Okay, this is getting silly.
Maybe one day I'll be in the right oceanside town and find a marina selling these pleasure boats. You know when I do I'm going to ask the boat sales people two things: 1) if there is a sale on their sail boats, and 2) if Sally really sells shells by the seashore.
And if she does, does Sally have a boat with a sail? A sallyboat?
BONUS Sailboat Quiz: How Sailboat Smart are You?
Do you know the definitions of the following boating terms and parts of a sailboat? AND can you find the 12 words that I threw in for fun that just don't belong? How sail boat smart are you?
aft
bear away
bilge
block
boom
boomerang
boom vang
bow
bow line
broad reach
capsize
centerboard
cleat
close hauled
close reach
cockpit
cockroach
course to make good
course to steer
coming about
coming of age
daggerboard
drain plug
fall off
foot
forward
foul
foul ball
gooseneck
hall monitor
harden up
head up
heading
halyard
hull
jib
jibe
jolly rancher
keelboat
kill joy
laughing
lazy sheet
leeward
line
luff
luffing
mainsail
main sheet
main street
mast
painter
point-of-sail
point-of-sale
port
rigging
round up
rudder
run
running lights
running rigging
scupper
sheet
shrouds
spar
standing rigging
starboard
stays
stern
tack
traveler
trunk
tiller
thwart
trim
turtling
turtle pie
winch
wing and wing
west wing
working sheet
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