Names on Our Boat
Here are a few names that we use.
Rope - As in which rope is that. Refers to any line on the boat.
The Other Port - Starboard when the captain gets confused on right and left
The Other Starboard - See above except port
Left- Non-nuatical direction for the common folk
Right - See Left above
Go That Way - Accompanied by Arm/Finger pointing to indicate direction. Used when I can't remember either Left/Right or Port/Starboard
Motor/Engine/Iron Sail/Power Sail - Diesel Engine
Scoop - Removable Cowls Vent
Instruments - Any Electrical Display on the Boat (Depth, Wind, Auto)
Sail - Any sail that is up. Used in a sentence, "Honey, how does the sail look?" or "Can you fix the Sail". We have a sloop, so two sails are up. Sometimes there is no distinction between the head and main sail.
Colors are often used to define things more appropriately. Which rope is it?, answer the blue one. This is confusing on a race boat that I race on. Half of the line is a high performance part and the other half is some junk line spliced into it. The junk line part isn't load bearing and just a tail or leader. So when you raise the halyard, if the clutch isn't marked, I'll the say tail the line that is blue at the mast, when in reality it is probably white or some thing back to the cockpit. Worse is if there actually is a blue tail or all the tails are the same color.