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I saw on a YouTube three links of anchor chain prior to the swivel reduces the concern of side loading on the swivel.

In American English it’s a hot water heater. I can agree with that.

Nautical nomenclature is not the same as boating lingo and it’s hard, I can agree with that.

Well the Canadian Navy called it a calorifier and Vetus calls it a calorifier…..

I have always been taught domestic water heaters were called “calorifiers”. Nautical terms are important!

Hi Bill, are you still looking for a vessel?

Does the gfci get grounded via the ground point and green wire or does it remain independent of ground? I have a galvanic isolator and will install an Elci blue seas for shore power. Will also make sure the ground and neutral are open at the panel and equipment. I’m just starting to trace out...

When installing a gfci on the boat is the green wire used or is it gfci alone?

Here in Ontario I spoke to MD Marine Insurance about propane onboard just yesterday. There are indeed insurance concerns with LPG in this jurisdiction and this marine insurance agency. My agent said bbqs and their bottles are fine. It is the fitted LPG systems which raise concerns. As...

John Clemen’s book “Contingency Seamanship” is an excellent read for all new and used captains/skipper/master or whatever the appropriate term is. He gives several scenarios and then suggests a solution called “this is what I’d do” rather than saying “this is what you should do”. It isn’t a...

Ted I’ve followed this site for a long time and I’ve learned a lot from you and so many others. There is so much more for me to learn and experience. This Covid is getting us all dawn as the past two summers have been a bust. My apologies if I misunderstood or came across as flippant. There are...

Do you mean like certification on 21 vessels (8 classes of ships, including tankers, trawlers (real ones ironically), submarines, mini subs, ocean going tugs, several sub 100ft fast boats, chief engineer, 3 personal trawlers, boats cox’n, innumerable rhibs, dinghy’s and the like, ICW 3 times(...

Do we salute on this web?

The tone is the same throughout the thread, if it’s useful it’s used and if it isn’t it goes. Most of my boating doesn’t really involve worry about guests knowing what’s esoteric jargon. Most people are somewhat familiar with the basics and just need a bit of polish. Now if we are talking about...

Okay well let’s drag some stuff out of the forepeak and look at a few bits. How nostalgic are we going to be? Is it rope, line, cordage, hawser, painter, twine or string? I don’t know, but what I’m saying is 60 years ago some old tar was raging about the lack of proper terminology about the same...

The use, or lack thereof, of jargon isn’t critical most of the time. Some things have only one name and isn’t jargon, ie port and stbd but others aren’t so critical. The jargon in use today would be very different from the jargon in common use on the water 50 years ago. It could be argued many...

If your willing to ship them it to Canada I’d like to purchase the alarm system. American funds of coarse and I cover shipping. Duty and such will be dealt with on this end.

Not sure all the salties on here know the difference between “roundly” and “ handsomely” so in truth there is a mishmash of terms and it’s more vernacular than nautical. Real ships that I sailed on used left/right between the navigator/pilot and commanding officer when on the bridge rather than...

Newer to boating and technically competent. Sail big and small for almost 18 years. Had a small tug, 32ft braggin, then a 38, and finally a 42 twin shaft tunnel double ended beauty named absolutely. I will be sailing north from ft Myers Fla to Windsor ON commencing 12 Aug or so. At this moment...