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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Sat Feb 02 2002 - 15:41:00 EST
In a message dated 2/2/2 18:49:14, wrote:
<<I have heard the rather inelegant term "slutter" for a sloop with an inner
forestay. It's up to you whether you want to adopt it...>>
I think not. Anyway in my neighbourhood it is customary to refer to a boat by
her registered name or her nickname, not by built or rigging. So my boat is
simply "Scaramouche", a name she was given two owners ago.
Sometimes even when a sailor decides to rename his boat, the old name sticks
with her for years. There is a boat here that was "Diane". Got sold three
years ago and the new owner renamed her "Rocking Horse". Put big letters
including large graphics in appropriate places and had her properly
re-registered. You know what everyone calls her? Right: "Diane".
Several years ago, I bought a British built Hurley 22. She had twin/bilge
keels and when we lifted her for the first time, one marina client laughed
out loud and shouted: "Looks like a guppy!" No matter what I or the next
owner named her after that, she was always known as the "Guppy" -- until she
got moved to another marina far away....
So, Scaramouche is Scaramouche and on her birthcertificate it says she's a
sloop and that's how we'll keep it.
Cheers - George
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