Why do you like him?
But he doesn’t have a pithy hat.
Hey bad pony? Make up your fucking mind?
Wait, they were a trock all along?!
Apparently I missed all the fun since I didn’t check the board after yesterday afternoon.
Equally apparently, trock was NOT subtle.
I’m not one who likes to split hairs, but while lines are ropes on ships, the lines that specifically control the sails are sheets. All sheets are lines, but not all lines are sheets.
And here I assumed that “sheets” on ships referred to the sails.
We sailors do that just to confuse people.
You should look up what a snotter is.
Sheets control the sails, not to be confused with halyards that raise and lower the sails or braces that control the angle of the yards. It’s all perfectly clear.
Thanks, I fixed the title and first line a little.
At Presque Isle in Erie for a regatta, we arrived the night before the event. We took the Hobie 16 out and a boom tang failed catastrophically. It was Labor Day weekend and no boat shops were open. We managed to get the boat to shore, and figured we were out of the race.
Walking along the beach we found a wrecked sailboat abandoned. People had taken parts, but lucky for us there was a boom tang left! We scavenged the part and ended up taking second place in our fleet.
I had to look that one up. I’m used to wooden boats where the boom has a yoke.
I had to look it up as well, and am now more confused.
Is it a boom tang, a boom vang, a boom end tang, a mast vang, or a mast tang for the boom vang?
With the lines vs sheets thing, I thought that made sense, as to prevent ambiguity. “Pull the rope!” “Which one?” “The one that connects to the sails!” “Which one?”, so having specific words for different ropes makes sense.
But this boom (t)vang thing sounds more like a copyright trap someone put in marine literature long ago, and it snowballed from there.
Those are all things. Different boats do the same thing differently.
Details, please. I used to sail Hobies and I want to know exactly what happened. Morbid curiosity for the most part.
Ah yes, I highly recommend the classic yacht rock group, Boom-Tang Clamp.
(I’ll go back to my room now.)
And where does the Wu-Tang Clan fit in all of this?
They boom spectacularly, but not as spectacularly as a failing boom tang.
I did have to put the word “boat” into my google search, as otherwise, about 75% of the matches were for that band.
Though “Mast Tang for the Boom Vang” also is an excellent band name. Especially when accompanied by the Halyards.
By the way, while being hit by a boom hurts, it doesn’t typically make a booming noise.