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How to speak like a sailor
So far, I've shared my thoughts about my visit to the Azores during my recent three-month ship voyage.   Another aspect of the trip I thought would be fun to share is that I needed to learn an entirely different language aboard the ship.  Here’s a primer on shipboard language, aka how to speak like a sailor (whether you are one or not), and no, it has nothing to do with knowing how to use the “F***” word successfully in a sentence, although that can be useful on occasion as well.
First, when you’re on a ship, you refer to your ship as a she, as in “She needs some work on the boiler”, and “She has fine lines.”  It doesn’t matter if the ship is called “Charlie’s Tug” or some such masculine name – it’s still a she.  And don’t ask why; it probably has something to do with being able to get somewhere successfully (grin). 
By the way, you might also refer to your ship as your vessel.  And you wouldn’t call it a ship if it could in theory fit into another vessel.  For example, you would call a yacht a boat, but you would call a 200 foot ... more

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