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Now means generally
By and large came from the terms 'by the wind', meaning 'into the wind' and 'large', meaning 'downwind' or 'with a following wind' so if something was into the with and down wing then it would be genenerally everywhere.
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All's well at eight bells.
Strikes of a ship's bell are used to indicate the hour aboard a ship and thereby to regulate the sailors' duty watches. There are eight bells, one for each half-hour of a four-hour watch. In the age of sail, watches were timed with a thirty-minute hourglass. At the end of you shift of four hours if everything had gone smoothely, you could report to the next watch, 'All's well at eight bells.'
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The most f.a.q. I've ever heard- what is the story of starboard and larboard
The origin of the term starboard comes from early boating. Before ships had rudders on their centerlines, they were steered by use of a specialized steering oar. This oar was held by an oarsman located in the stern of the ship. However, like most of society, there were many more right-handed sailors than left-handed sailors. This meant that the steering oar (which had been broadened to provide better control) used to be affixed to the right side of the ship. The word starboard comes from Old English steorbord, literally meaning the side on which the ship is steered, descendant from the Old Norse words stýri meaning "rudder" (from the verb stýra, literally "being at the helm", "having a hand in") and borð meaning etymologically "board", then the "side of a ship".
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- How do I Know if you've been by the boat?
- What if we are out on the lake when you come by ?
- What if we sell the boat and forget to mention it to you, ?
- How do I discontinue service?
- What do i need to do to prepare for the diver's visit?
- What if the keel is in the mud?
A: It will be clean! old zinc will be left by the power post, and you should receive an email with 1-2 days of finishing the boat. Sometimes, but not always we will tag the boat on the bow, This is more for advertisement, and some marinas no longer allow us to place anything on the boat after a service.
A: This happens at least 5 times per week, we wil just move the boat service to the next day that we will be in the marina, usually within 3-4 days. We never expect for you to notify us of your boating days, which is why we walk out to the boat first before hauling all the equipment out of the truck.
A; If you sell the boat and neglect to inform us, we will continue to clean and bill for the work untill we have received notice. After work has been done you are responsible for paying the bill even if you no longer own the boat if we have not been notified. This would seem to be commonly understood, yet it still comes up a couple times a year.
A:) Just send a letter stating exactly that. Do not just leave a message and do not send an email, they can get lost, or accidentally deleted. Emails are not yet a perfect system. As long as there is confirmation, the means is not crcucial.
A) Nothing special, We do not expect you to be there, we do not need keys and will not board the vesssle, On very rare occasions we will need to loosen a line to gain access to part of the water line, but we will refasten it if this truns out to be nescasary. We would perfer to have the transmission left in nueatral, and the rudder unlocked, but its not of major importance, it just means we may not be able to do a rotation test or clean the top of the rudder. As long as there is power and safe acces to the boat we are able to dive the boat.
A) Then the bottom of the keel probably won't be cleaned. When we get a call to come clean a boat, we make the assumption that the boat is floating in sufficient depth for the size and draft of the boat. Although most boats will wallow out a hole in their slip that exposes the keel and rudder, some boats because of the type of bottom do not. We can not risk a divers saftey by allowing him to place any part of himself under a keel that at any moment could crush him. We will clean what can be saftey reached, and inform the owner of such. We do not dive certain marinas after a strong northern for this reason, we will make reasonable efforts to avoid having to leave any part of the boat uncleaned, but the bottom line is if its the middle of summer and your keel is in the mud then we may or may not be able to clean that area, but the majority of the hull will be cleaned and the boat will be billed normally.
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