Do you set sail, when casting off a motor boat..?
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Priceless! Hard-Drive said:
"Getting in the way/making lots of noise/ignoring the colregs/creating lots of wash" can all be used to describe the actual act of operating a motorboat at sea.
"Undoing the string from the comically tiny Fisher-Price cleats" is the equivalent of slipping lines and "using both 200hp engines and a ludicrously noisy bowthruster an awful lot whilst shouting at the wife from the steering balcony" is the act if manoeuvring a 26' boat in a marina.
Hope this helps...
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Haha, this is the same all around the world!"Undoing the string from the comically tiny Fisher-Price cleats" is the equivalent of slipping lines and "using both 200hp engines and a ludicrously noisy bowthruster an awful lot whilst shouting at the wife from the steering balcony" is the act if manoeuvring a 26' boat in a marina.
Hope this helps...
(Runs for cover...)
Personally I just drive my motorboat in until it stops itself (by hitting something). Only then do I turn my stereo down enough so the marina deckhand can hear my instructions to 'fill her up, pronto'...
Of course when I'm in my sailboat I change into a crusty old sea salt who's seen and heard it all. I do the slow shake of my head at any Motorboat near me that's creating a bow wave and have mastered the art of begrudgingly returning a wave to a motorboatie but making it look a 'scr3w you' (or i just ignore them by looking at my mainsail).
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