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@stevenminnick
June 10, 2025 at 4:22 pm
My favorite rule I tell people: never approach a dock faster than you want to hit it.
@s3cr3tsquar333
June 10, 2025 at 4:28 pm
i kept asking for a DARK MODE for these videos and now they’re starting to use more natural backdrops and it looks AMAZING
@whitey211
June 10, 2025 at 4:40 pm
I’m sorry but the starboard/port thing is nonsense. If you’re on a boat and say “left side” that is obviously the left side as facing forward. That is always the frame of reference; looking forward.
@govsquid
June 10, 2025 at 5:45 pm
You’d be surprised.
@andrewlarking7492
June 10, 2025 at 4:51 pm
Port and Starboard doesn’t make sense. I get what she’s saying but “left” is the left of the boat relative to the front and back. So there is no difference. The left of my car is the left of my car. It’s just boat people wanting their own words.
@fevesvfr
June 10, 2025 at 4:52 pm
Buoy colors are inverted in North America and Europe
@helloitsminti9027
June 10, 2025 at 4:52 pm
3:00 “man overboard”😀👉
@davidmurphy8364
June 10, 2025 at 5:05 pm
How do boats float? Seriously?!😂😂 it’s witchcraft, everyone knows that
@mrdr9534
June 10, 2025 at 5:13 pm
As always a very enjoyable video by a knowledgeable and enthusiastic presenter !!!
One thing that could have been added to the “man over board “””advice””” is that you should, IF possible, designate one person who’s only task is to keep looking at and pointing to the person in the water. This because it is in many cases VERY easy to loose track of them ((i.e. possibly basically just a “bobbing head”) in among the waves, when both You (the boat) and they move constantly… ((though I hope NO-ONE one will believe they “know how to do a “man overboard manoeuvre” after viewing a YT video))
Best regards,
@JerryC25
June 10, 2025 at 5:16 pm
Is that the throggs neck
@MarkUKInsects
June 10, 2025 at 5:23 pm
Most dangerous ocean is the Hepatitis Sea
@DimitriNikita-d5h
June 10, 2025 at 5:33 pm
How do you find these great analogies? They make all the difference make sense.
@puttitat2851
June 10, 2025 at 6:08 pm
I love the positivity and spirit!
@WilliamCarterII
June 10, 2025 at 6:21 pm
This is dope I mean I have no interests in boating and have been on boats maybe a handful of times but I still watched the whole thing haha
@jamesj2509
June 10, 2025 at 6:29 pm
The nautical mile is used because it’s useful in global navigation. It is the length of an arc on the surface of the Earth subtended by an angle of 1 minute at the centre of the Earth (and thus varies slightly with latitude as the Earth is an oblate spheroid).
@rbourg3
June 10, 2025 at 7:57 pm
True, but speed was also measured by knots in line
@brandon8900
June 10, 2025 at 6:41 pm
Motor boats are my favourite kind of boat
@darrelljohnston8676
June 10, 2025 at 6:44 pm
That was really interesting. Thank you.
@Mncdk
June 10, 2025 at 6:44 pm
How long until the land sickness goes away also depends on how long you were out for. One time it took me _days_ to get rid of, after we spent like a week on the water.
@KarmaWolf63
June 10, 2025 at 7:13 pm
SUNK or Sinking would be a terrible boat name. Just sayin.
@SiGl26
June 10, 2025 at 7:42 pm
Red right returning only applies to IALA B buoyage region (primarily the Americas). youtube is global so bear that in mind…
@nimzipow
June 10, 2025 at 7:42 pm
This was so interesting and informative! I have nothing to do with boats, but always wondered some of these things. Loved this format
@BenjamintheTortoise
June 10, 2025 at 7:51 pm
So fun!! Brings back fond memories of my dad teaching me these things when I was 13 years old…. I became a master docker! 😄 I’m 48 now so maybe it’s time to get back out on the water!! Much love 💞😊
@drewp.wiener1205
June 10, 2025 at 8:00 pm
2:28 haha
@jsncrso
June 10, 2025 at 8:10 pm
I’m a marine systems engineer. I build boats as a career. Good video!
@astrayelmgod
June 10, 2025 at 8:11 pm
Bad boat names: There’s a 24ft daysailer around here with an outboard for auxiliary power. It’s name is “Dreadnought”.
@admiralbeez8143
June 10, 2025 at 8:25 pm
0:31 I can see why port replaced larboard.
@loclogic9195
June 11, 2025 at 7:12 am
Is there any reason to keep the knots and nautical mile measurement system?
@20628
June 11, 2025 at 10:01 am
because it’s in use?
@loclogic9195
June 11, 2025 at 10:41 am
@20628
It would be easier for education and “inlanders” to understand universal measurements of speed i.e. km/hr
@20628
June 11, 2025 at 11:12 am
@@loclogic9195 it’s been updated for use internationally
@barmanvarn
June 11, 2025 at 8:03 am
I’m cool with boats using nautical jargon but that first answer does fly with me. Saying you have to use bow and stern because someone won’t know what the back of the boat is, makes zero sense. Just admit it’s a historical tradition. Same way sailors will call a generator a genset. They just prefer using different terms.
@20628
June 11, 2025 at 10:01 am
???? i dont think anything she said contradicts what you said?
@barmanvarn
June 11, 2025 at 11:52 am
@@20628 Did I misunderstand the part where she says “we use bow/stern, port/starboard as a person might now know what we mean if we say left/right, front/back, depending on what direction the person is facing”. (I’m paraphrasing).
@fredbarnes196
June 11, 2025 at 10:02 am
Why aren’t they called the red and green sides of a boat? That would be easier. Because it has always been port/starboard is the real answer. Same with fore and aft, There is no confusing front and back. How about head, or galley, or athwartships or you name it.
Why would you stop calling these things what they have been called for centuries?
@BadvisionStudios
June 11, 2025 at 10:24 am
TIL the origin of “mayday”…. Eluded me for decades, seems obvious to me now. Lots of other great info in this one. Well done…👏
@benoithudson7235
June 11, 2025 at 10:25 am
“Slow is pro” — and then you take a river taxi on the chao praya. Full forward up along the river, then at the last second, full reverse. I assume there’s the occasional horrific accident but for the most part they nail it.
@christinewittmann1806
June 11, 2025 at 10:26 am
Electrical tape is called rigging tape in the sailing world and is priced accordingly
@hoofhearted4
June 11, 2025 at 11:04 am
Do I have any desire to boat? no. Do I love listening to knowledgably people talk about something theyre passionate about? yes.
@Pr00ch
June 11, 2025 at 11:32 am
Worth noting that the channel marker colours on the right and left side differ depending on the region. For instance, red right returning applies in the americas, but not in europe where when returning to port, the red buoy will be on the left.
@etb7856
June 11, 2025 at 12:25 pm
I still don’t get the explanation for port and starboard
You’re telling me people can’t tell when someone says left ans facing someone that’s it’s gonna be your right?
People are that stupid?
@normanboyd
June 11, 2025 at 12:34 pm
The phrase “your other left” tells us that left-right issues are common.
@CaptainKwame1773
June 11, 2025 at 12:28 pm
OMG, wasn’t expecting the background change! Love seeing the experts in their domain!
@tomwong6067
June 11, 2025 at 12:33 pm
She has a great combination of knowledge and personality – love how she explains things in laymans terms.
@oftenlucid
June 11, 2025 at 1:52 pm
5:22 Nautical Mile: A nautical mile is defined as one minute of latitude.
Knot: A knot is one nautical mile per hour.
@m1t2a1
June 11, 2025 at 2:56 pm
If you’re dating a sailor raise your hand. If you’re not raising your hand, raise your standards.
@mmp11472
June 11, 2025 at 3:04 pm
17:25 Gulf of America
@EF-69
June 11, 2025 at 4:21 pm
Port & starboard are both referenced to the direction of the boat, bow & stern. Left & right are exactly the same in this. The left side of an automobile is the left side of a boat. The word used is irrelevant & has no bearing on confusion.
@daveycrockett6159
June 11, 2025 at 4:37 pm
Great tutorial.. I always thought a nautical mile is slightly longer than a statute mile because of the curvature of the earth. Also red right returning is used in inland water areas.. going upstream and downstream.say in the case of the Mississippi or Erie Canal you would keep the red buoy to your right whilst travelling upstream. I love playing with knots… my Dad taught me many and their uses.
@tcoates72
June 11, 2025 at 5:14 pm
I’m curious though. So, if I am on a boat and I say there is a dolphin on the left side. Most people would look to their left regardless which way they are facing on the boat? I’m pretty sure more people would know to look toward the left side of the boat, far more than if you said port or starboard. I may not know the actual reason that we use port/starboard but I’m pretty sure that isn’t it. Seems to me to be more of an old tradition.
@timhuwaldt3213
June 11, 2025 at 5:26 pm
Wise man once say: “never approach a dock any faster than you’re willing to hit it”.
@Unplanted
June 11, 2025 at 6:21 pm
Björk’s cat friend was right. I need to buy a boat.
@Oddman1980
June 11, 2025 at 7:11 pm
I use a danforth anchor just like you showed us…. in my Samurai. You can bury it and then you’ll have something to hook the winch to when you come across a stuck Jeep and there isn’t a tree handy. 😉🦆 I didn’t know what it was called!
@edumazieri
June 11, 2025 at 7:15 pm
hmmm couldn’t they just agree that left means boat left? like stage left?
@SquareCanine
June 11, 2025 at 9:00 pm
A V hull will slice smoothly through the waves with a gentle up and down motion. A cathedral hull will assert it’s dominance over the water by *slamming* down onto every wave with a force that will rattle any and all loose objects.
I had a cathedral hull once. On the one hand, it never once made me doubt it’s stability. It never keeled over like it might capsize, and it never did an impression of a diving submarine into the back of a wave, both of which are things it’s V-hull replacement has done. On the other hand, everyone who ever rode in that boat needed to pee inside 20 minutes unless the water was smooth as glass, and sometimes I wondered if the whole thing was going to buckle under the mighty strain of body slamming foot high waves at 30 mph.
@anncarlson1396
June 11, 2025 at 9:05 pm
Terrific lessons, I enjoyed immensely!
@ThatTimeTheThingHappened
June 11, 2025 at 9:07 pm
0:42 I don’t think that’s what they meant by that question. I think they meant, why THOSE words. Not “why not use left and right?”
@Caperhere
June 11, 2025 at 9:20 pm
Red right returning.
Instead of Port, the word larboard used to be used. Very easy to mistake larboard with starboard, so Port became the new word for left. To remember which side is port and which is starboard, just remember port is a short word, just as left is a short word.
@noahj.1232
June 12, 2025 at 1:41 am
0:18 this just blew my mind. This whole time I thought it was just because sailors got so bored they started making up words
@VazzVegas
June 12, 2025 at 2:00 am
Haven’t seen a Trimaran since the movie “Waterworld”.
@layneaicjerry
June 12, 2025 at 2:01 am
This lady just nonchalantly gave instructions to make a noose! WTF
@VazzVegas
June 12, 2025 at 2:02 am
Great boat name: ‘Breaking Wind’
@s70driver2005
June 12, 2025 at 2:03 am
20:06 I had it after a Virgin Cruise but didn’t get it while I was in the Navy. I saw a specialist and they said I had Mal Debarkment syndrome. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone!!
@NixonAngelo
June 12, 2025 at 4:21 am
Is she an instructor or a coach?
@michael71601
June 12, 2025 at 5:29 am
NM do not relate to a rope but rather to one minute of arc on a sphere our planet happens to be
@makatron
June 12, 2025 at 6:00 am
She’s got the perfect energy for this, more of her please.
@CyprienArmand
June 12, 2025 at 7:13 am
Too bad she didn’t mention A and B zones for channel markers. Rest of the world has it the other way around. Very interesting otherwise 🙂
@Grumpah
June 12, 2025 at 7:18 am
20:25 I used to install docks. That swaying feeling used to rock me to sleep every night after 12 hours on the boat <3 really a weird feeling lol
@Yora21
June 12, 2025 at 7:19 am
The English names for the sides of the ship are pretty simple:
Before the introduction of the steering wheel, the rudder was an actual big paddle that the person steering the ship would hang over the side of the ship and control with his hand. The steering board. Or starboard. Most people are right handed, so the rudder typically went on the ride side of the ship.
And when a ship comes into port and wants to dock at the pier, you don’t want to get your rudder stuck between the ship and the dock. So ships would be docked with the left side to the pier. The port side. Some people might have difficulty always remembering left and right, but as a sailor, it’s easy to remember “the side where we always load and unload” and “the side where the rudder is.”
A bit like as a car driver, you always know where the driver’s side and where the passenger’s side are, without having to think about left and right.
@blakecunningham5389
June 12, 2025 at 8:24 am
I’m on a boat!
@KcBoyBlue
June 12, 2025 at 9:35 am
Her course for the Great Loop is accurate enough, but she got the direction wrong. You sail DOWN the Mississippi, not up. Then into the Gulf/ICW, around FL, up the east coast/ICW, then you make your way into the Great Lakes (through NY or Canada), through the Lakes to the Chicago River, and then you are back at the Mississippi.
@ericpeccia8194
June 12, 2025 at 9:57 am
Repping SUNY
@CarlosRios1
June 12, 2025 at 11:28 am
For the figure 8 knot: you have an alien, you strangle it, and punch it in the face.
@jamespickering7975
June 12, 2025 at 1:02 pm
The Inward is a terrible name for a boat
@antonbonin5003
June 12, 2025 at 1:34 pm
0:55 I just LOVE how they cut away the camera as she’s actively showing how to tie a cleat hitch. Because we definitely don’t need to see it… Fantastic editing.
@captainhml3868
June 12, 2025 at 2:10 pm
I have some unwritten rules of boating. Keep the water out of the boat and if it’s bigger than me and faster than me, get out of the way (Law of Tonnage) 🙂
@bluegizmo1983
June 12, 2025 at 2:14 pm
1:27 No…. Ramming speed!! 😂
@yotaruvegeta
June 12, 2025 at 4:09 pm
I love the “we’re outside now” era of this series
@invox_in_your_inbox
June 12, 2025 at 5:10 pm
FYI “Landsickness” is what actor Johnny Depp came up with ti give his character Jack Sparrow that unique and funny walk.
@John-ir4id
June 12, 2025 at 5:37 pm
1:23 Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
@antoniog9814
June 12, 2025 at 8:21 pm
10:25 Nice way of deflecting. The question referenced aircraft, not cars. And yes, airplanes have airbrakes, which disrupt the airflow and create drag, therefore slowing down the plane
@syntax483
June 13, 2025 at 4:30 pm
To answer your question in terms of aircraft (as both a boating instructor and a pilot) – boats don’t need hydrodynamic brakes because you can use a reverse gear – analogous to the reverse thrust on aircraft. This then begs the question why planes don’t use reverse thrust in flight – and this is because the use of reverse thrust dramatically changes the flow of the fluid around the vessel/aircraft – on boats this doesn’t matter (and for manoeuvring at slow speeds is actually desirable) whereas for aircraft it can cause a complete loss of control so the use of reverse thrust is only available on the ground. TLDR: boats don’t need them because they aren’t primarily being held up and controlled by the flow of the fluid around them.
@pskarnaq73
June 12, 2025 at 8:47 pm
Very informative and reminiscent of my years in the U.S. Navy. Thank you! ❤
@pskarnaq73
June 12, 2025 at 8:53 pm
8:01 pontoon boat is definitely my speed.
@EvanBguitar
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Why are you shouting “man overboard” and pointing? Sharks don’t understand English.
@Tera_GX
June 12, 2025 at 10:30 pm
I like having the interesting thumbnail question also be the first one answered.
I’m surprised I didn’t hear a single mention of flags. Are flags no longer a standard? When I was a kid in the 90s and got to go boating, I remember being instructed to raise a flag everytime we were picking someone up out of the water (after skiing).
@vadunc20001
June 13, 2025 at 1:03 am
Unsinkable 2
@cuseyeti_one8three
June 13, 2025 at 4:38 am
When I was in the Navy, it could take 2-3 days after a long sea trip for my land legs to return. There would be times I’d be sitting in an apartment on a couch after a long tour and swear the whole room was swaying.
@brianreilly8799
June 13, 2025 at 7:08 am
Rule number 1 for docking don’t come in faster than you are willing to hit the dock
@user-microburst
June 13, 2025 at 8:42 am
I love it. Now im going back to all the news about the impending end if the Workd
@shawnmorrow8350
June 13, 2025 at 12:04 pm
Happiest “Man Overboard” call out I have ever heard. lol
@ridzandpieces
June 13, 2025 at 12:21 pm
Boat goes binted
@jasonbrindamour903
June 13, 2025 at 12:49 pm
When I was learning about port and starboard, I discovered a trick. All the words with less letters go together. Port has less letters than starboard, left has less letters than right and red has less letters than green. Port, left, red. Starboard, right, green.
🙂
@diggernash1
June 13, 2025 at 12:50 pm
Objects float by displacing a volume of water equal in weight to the object prior to becoming submerged. Shape and surface area do not determine if an object will float(when not considering surface tension), they are, however, critical to remaining stable while floating.
@DGas-rg1pk
June 13, 2025 at 2:08 pm
Yes but why are the terms “Port” and “Starboard”? I think she misunderstood the question. Like, why use those terms? Why not use “Davy” and “Jones”?
@Limoncellodeceptobro
June 13, 2025 at 3:42 pm
Dat azzzzz dooooooooeee
@davidhoyt-hoyt
June 13, 2025 at 4:34 pm
A nautical mile is one minute arc of the globe, 1°/60. A critical measurement for blue water map usage. Boat speed has been measured in nmi/h. Knots do come in here, boats would have a knotted line to measure distance. But it’s backed in. The unit was set first, then the knotted rope was created to be a “yardstick.”
* It’s been redefined to be a 1,852 metres.
@oobatz333
June 13, 2025 at 4:58 pm
When someone is standing in front of me, facing me, they know what left and right is. That’s the stupidest explanation for port and starboard I’ve ever heard!
@johnjob9523
June 13, 2025 at 8:32 pm
Mayday mayday mayday this is “it’s okay” 😅
@joshbobst1629
June 13, 2025 at 11:22 pm
Before I listen, I guess that the port side was the side facing the port city when at dock, and the larboard side was just the opposite side. The larboard, a kind of primitive rudder that was attached to the side of the ship, had to be on the side opposite the port otherwise it would be crushed by the dock. But how larboard became starboard I’ve not guessed.
Sigh. I should have known.
@kimdani2
June 14, 2025 at 12:17 am
i still feel like port and starboard are just as useful as left and right would be. if someone knows where the front of the boat is, left and right should be just as understandable. the left side of a car is always the left side of a car….. it just seems like an unnecessary retention of traditional terms. sail boat people apparently refer to ropes as sheets and it seems a bit snobby when they correct you for saying rope… when it is in fact a rope….. back to the car comparison,… it is pretty much like saying driver side or passenger side…..
@mikek6313
June 14, 2025 at 2:17 am
I don’t get it if you need a common terminology so port is always left and starboard is always right why not just say left is always left right is always right?
@jobe616
June 14, 2025 at 5:27 am
Wait, but if you’re facing someone wouldn’t their port be your starboad? I don’t think changing the word solves the problem.
@a-bad-consumer-1
June 14, 2025 at 6:28 am
3:44 yep, that’s going on my list of sentences that shouldn’t need saying, but absolutely do.
@bomorris5050
June 14, 2025 at 10:12 am
OR… you could refer to left and right as ALWAYS being the Captain’s left or right side (or whoever is giving the order). That too could solve the problem of port and starboard. See how simple that was boat nerds!
@TabrezAnssri
June 14, 2025 at 10:32 am
awesome 💫
@NarayanaNagishetti
June 14, 2025 at 10:32 am
To anyone who’s suffering depression, anxiety, insomnia and other mental health problems, you are not alone. I feel you. You are so brave. You are doing so well. I’m proud of you. I’m sending you a virtual hug ❤ For me, it wasn’t therapy or meds that helped the most — it was reconnecting with myself. I started using the exercises in Shift Your Mind by Alexander Brooks, and it made me feel human again. The anxiety that used to control my whole day barely shows up now! 🙏❤
@pritamsinghpinkey6546
June 14, 2025 at 10:46 am
great ❤️
@sanjukumar7530
June 14, 2025 at 11:48 am
To anyone who’s suffering depression, anxiety, insomnia and other mental health problems, you are not alone. I feel you. You are so brave. You are doing so well. I’m proud of you. I’m sending you a virtual hug ❤ For me, it wasn’t therapy or meds that helped the most — it was reconnecting with myself. I started using the exercises in Shift Your Mind by Alexander Brooks, and it made me feel human again. The anxiety that used to control my whole day barely shows up now! 🙏❤
@Ganesh_24
June 14, 2025 at 11:48 am
awesome 💫
@Mehedirana-q8s
June 14, 2025 at 2:28 pm
Hello Ma’am,
I hope you’re doing well. Do you need a professional YouTube thumbnail designer? please let me know
Thank you!
@seanthompson6720
June 14, 2025 at 2:34 pm
that is a horrible excuse to use special words for left and right because you still have to figure out where the front of the boat is, but now you also have to remember which side is port and starboard. just admit you like having special words
@cheeseburger3119
June 14, 2025 at 3:37 pm
Man overboard? Which man?
@Al-cynic
June 14, 2025 at 8:01 pm
Green to Green Upstream, red ones on your right is wrong
@OutsideGamerGirl
June 14, 2025 at 11:49 pm
Pretty neat the Wired crew is on site, rather than in studio.
@ricksaint2000
June 15, 2025 at 3:46 am
Thank you Tara
@robertkelleher1850
June 15, 2025 at 10:51 am
Great discussion!
Most important unwritten rule of boating is to slow down! Don’t let the boat get ahead of you.
@DarkLouie76
June 15, 2025 at 8:55 pm
The best way to own a boat is to know somebody who owns a boat…
@donbarr9487
June 15, 2025 at 9:36 pm
Port and starboard should not be thought of as left or right, the terms are more analogous to driver side and passenger side in a car.
@prajwalpratyaksh
June 16, 2025 at 5:01 am
She reminded me of April Kepner
@TeaAndFloppyDisks
June 16, 2025 at 11:21 am
I’m here to improve my navigation skills for playing Ports of Call. XD
@MaggieDozer
June 16, 2025 at 11:56 am
I wanna be down in your South Seas, But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean means “Small Craft Advisory”
@crystalsoulslayer
June 16, 2025 at 6:46 pm
“See you on the water!” No, you will not. But this was very interesting nevertheless!
@missashleymacmacmac
June 17, 2025 at 12:04 am
she’s so engaging 😊 idgaf about boats but i watched this whole thing
@ihmesekoilua
June 17, 2025 at 5:52 am
didnt tell us why its port and starboard, tho
@BrianStDenis-pj1tq
June 17, 2025 at 10:58 pm
So good. Note that the Great Loop is usually done the other way (south down rivers, north up east coast, but that’s up to you.) We usually call “the swaying motion” having “a case of the lands”. I think we are going to switch to calling it “land sickness” now. Love it!!!
@nextworld9176
June 18, 2025 at 4:27 am
To protect the steering board, the Dutch had the steering board on the starboard side, so the other side was up against the dock, or port. Easy to remember: Port and Left both have four letters. Right and starboard do not.
@harrr53
June 18, 2025 at 5:49 am
The left and right explanation is true, but silly. Doctors solved a similar situation by saying that left is always the left side of the patient, and right, the right side of the patient. You could easily still call left on a boat to always mean the left of the boat, since there is always a front and back on the boat. It really didn’t require 2 new words, which essentially still mean “the left of the boat” and “the right of the boat”. Rant over.
@PhillipBicknell
June 18, 2025 at 9:27 am
“Red light returning” – in Region B. The shapes are consistent for both Regions, but the colours/colors are swapped for Region A. Look up ‘lateral mark’ on Wikipedia.
@MaxwellBurton
June 18, 2025 at 10:58 am
Quick note on picking up a person overboard. If your boat has a constant speed propeller you will need to disengage the gearbox on top of putting the boat in neutral.
@PPedroFernandes
June 18, 2025 at 4:49 pm
0:18 yeah, no, that still doesn’t make sense.
Obviously, if you say to someone “left” they’re going to assume it’s left when you’re aligned with the boat. Regardless of what terms you use, you STILL have to locate yourself in relation to the boat to know what direction is meant by the instruction. It helps with nothing
@HouseMDaddict
June 19, 2025 at 10:27 am
Left can be used for “hey can you hand me that sandwich to the left” when you’re chilling on a boat…you’re looking to YOUR left which may or may not be the left side of the boat. Port ALWAYS means left side of the boat. It takes away the confusion where people automatically think THEIR left , when in an emergency especially on a boat, port always means left of the boat. Using less common words is helpful. It’s like how there’s lingo in various jobs where technically you could use layman’s terms, but with the lingo you know it’s in the context of your job and not just every day life.
@PPedroFernandes
June 19, 2025 at 10:32 am
@@HouseMDaddictwow we’re seriously scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Sure buddy good for you
@polecat1337
June 18, 2025 at 5:29 pm
the best boat name = Unsinkable II
@chipcurry
June 18, 2025 at 11:10 pm
I’ve heard that story about releasing a line in the water and counting how many knots go over the stern, but the truth is that there are 60 nautical miles in 1° of latitude, or one nautical mile per minute of latitude. So 10 nautical miles per hour is 10 kn. It’s much easier for navigation purposes.
@rikachiu
June 18, 2025 at 11:41 pm
She’s the type of expert where you actually listen to and absorb -_-
@stereothrilla8374
June 19, 2025 at 7:45 am
Love this woman! Great positive upbeat demeanor, very knowledgeable and professional.🎉
@acatinatux9601
June 19, 2025 at 10:16 am
acting like you dont have “grip” in the water on the boat is crazy inaccurate lol planes have airbrakes and they dont have “grip”……..boats can have water brakes with a simple system where one can lower a plane/paddle into the water stream. boom, brakes
@iluvtacos1231
June 19, 2025 at 7:04 pm
Love how for the trim demonstration, she grabs the piece of wood for knot tying, and not one of the two boat models she has RIGHT there lol
@mollielie
June 19, 2025 at 8:25 pm
M’aider is pronounced very similarly to mayday! Idk the actual words to describe the vowel changes, but you basically just open your mouth less to say it with a French accent. Definitely don’t change the emphasis