Random vocabulary question for sailors: this article talks about "boaters" on the coast, and I believe that anyone on the ocean is considered a "sailor" even if not on a sailboat (also, that you call anything on the ocean a "ship", as long as you could fit a dinghy on it). And you only use "boater" in the context of someone in freshwater/on a river, not using a sail. Anyone want to enlighten me on the proper usage? #sailing #boating #vocabulary
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/waves-beach-surf-wind-warning-socal-coast-la-oc
@FinchHaven @N1ZZZ @ai6yr Yeah. as a boat person, this one's been in my collection for years.
I remember my first thought when I saw it was, "Seriously? Those boats can get where they're going on their own. They make so many they need to build a super barge to ship them? That's ridiculous."
I suspect it has to do with their manufacturing method. The hulls are built in one place and internals installed elsewhere. Although this is a bit weird because big ships are built the other way around. You lay the keel and engine, and the ship is built around the engine.
I'm still curious why this is necessary.
@shuttersparks @FinchHaven @ai6yr Small boats are slow and don't handle ocean passages well. So they build them and use "heavy lift" vessels to move them. Many yachts move between the Med and the Caribbean on similar vessels.
@N1ZZZ @FinchHaven @ai6yr Hmm. Interesting. Those all look bigger than the ships my forebears came from Europe on. Haha.
@N1ZZZ @FinchHaven @ai6yr The ships I referred to were all steamships. (I'm a recent import.)
Your point is well taken. I hadn't considered that. The cost of having all those ships "hot" and crewed is probably a slam dunk argument.
@shuttersparks @FinchHaven @ai6yr They are, but remember, many of those old sail ships never made it across... Besides, it's cheaper not having to crew them.