Any sailors out there?

Question

Give me your favorite sea-faring chant, phrase, or saying. I heard one today that was interesting, "Put wind in my sails and I'll take the world!"

Make something up, if you want! I'm just interested to hear something from the prespective of a sailor, as, clearly, I am not.

Answer 1

Haul Away

We're running down a stormy sea and rolling through the thunder. 'Way haul, away. Well haul away, Joe.

It's ev'ry man aloft my boys or we'll be driven under. 'Way haul, away. Well, haul away, Joe.

'Way haul away. We're bound for better weather. 'Way haul away. Well, haul away, Joe.

For seven days and seven nights we've labored to exhaustion. 'Way haul away. Well, haul away, Joe.

But now the breeze is from the East. We'll come about for Boston. 'Way haul away. Well, haul away, Joe.

'Way haul away. We're bound for better weather. 'Way haul away. Well, haul away, Joe.

East wind bring us home.

The ragged heavens open up. We sound the jubilation. 'Way haul away. Well, haul away, Joe.

The setting sun's a beacon, boys, a sign of our salvation. 'Way haul away. Well, haul away, Joe.

'Way haul away. We're bound for better weather. 'Way haul away. Well, haul away, Joe.

East wind bring us home.

Answer 2

when there is no wind, you start whisling, cauz you are whisling up the wind

Answer 3

Keep the slimy side down.

Answer 4

Fair winds, and following seas.

Answer 5

One hand for the ship another for yourself.

Answer 6

"I thought wood boats floated"! :-O

Yes, there a story with this. :-D When I was about 8 years old my friends and me decided to build us a boat. We cut, nailed, glue and painted our sea fairing craft and headed for the lake. Put the boat in the water, it worked! Yaaaa! We all jumped in only to see water flow over the sides as we sank to the bottom. Luckily an old man seen the catastrophe. He helped pull our boat from the water and proceeded to explain a few words about Bouncy, ballast, sheer etc. But, that word bouncy stayed on our minds as we went back to the drawing board and realized with better results at next launch, that bouncy is an important word when it comes to boats.

Answer 7

'Worse things happen at sea' - its absolutely true - I've been sailing all my life and luck/wind/tide have always conspired to make the most difficult situation even more difficult.

Still - to me at least - it's part of the attraction!!

By the way buoyancy is spelled buoyancy, not bouncy! - but I get the point.

The saying 'Three sheets to the wind' comes from the old square riggers days when the sails were basically square. On each corner was a rope to control it - they were correctly called sheets - these were tied to each corner of the sail. In windy conditions, if a sheet came undone - to lose control of one corner was disaster - to lose three sheets to the winds was to be totally uncontrolled - hence the expression!

All the best Bigpathome.

Answer 8

The ocean weeds out those that attempt to make upon her a living of their own.

Answer 9

Mares tails and Mackerell scales make tall ships carry very small sails

Answer 10

For a Woman your age, you've still got the weather gauge.

Life's a beach.   (Thats pretty much all we get to see of land from ship.)

Answer 11

Always spit to the leeward-not to the windward.

He's three sheets to the wind.

NOTE:

Old square riggers could not tack across the eye of the wind so they therefore had to weigh ship to change tacks which was actually gybing some 270 degrees. Now, if the captain did not reduce sails (misnamed sheets) prior to this maneuver the vessel would violently lurch during the gybe much like a drunken sailor.

Answer 12

"It's five o'clock somewhere"

along with (at 3 am) "Okay, you have the conn"

Answer 13

I've been sailing all my bloomin' life. My father was King Neptune. My mother was a mermaid. I was born on the crest of a wave and rocked in the cradle of the deep. My eyes are stars. My teeth are spars. My hair is hemp and seaweed. I's tough I am, I is, I are.

Answer 14

astonishment!  :    "Well **** me silly with a handy billy"

"you are SOL"  (**** out of luck)

"jump into the Rain Locker" (the shower)

The Navy has lockers for everything: gear locker, damage control locker, paint locker , chain locker, HURT locker (when you are injured or in trouble)

"whats the scuttlebutt?"   (what is the gossip or rumors you've heard..the Scuttlebutt is a drinking fountain onboard ship and just like the office water cooler, is a place people chat.

"colder than a witch's t*t in a bronze bra"  (weather observation)

Answer 15

Roll Me Over, Roll Me Over , Roll Me Over gimmie a beer , do it again.  --

Happy now ?

Answer 16

Sail the 7 seas boy, sail the 7 seas, fill your heart with romance, and pleasant memory's.

These are just a few words to a song my dad wrote, he was a Boat Captain.

Answer 17

Fisherman's luck is a wet a** and a hungry gut.

Answer 18

"The shadow's past the yardarm somewhere" - usually cited when hoisting a drink before noon.

Answer 19

LIBERTY CALL!!!!!!!!

Answer 20

I’m Popeye the sailor man ooOO ooOO I’m Popeye the sailor man … That was a popular one on my ship after we dropped depth charges