Boating acronyms

[Chris Lowe]

NRHV - National Register of Historic Vessels.

[Momac]

 

CEVNI Code Européen des Voies de la Navigation Intérieure (French: European Code for Inland Waterways)  

ICC   International Certificate of Competence
 

SOLAS  The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 

 

LOA  Length Over All

LWL Length at Water Line

BHP Brake Horse Power

HP Horse Power 

MARPOL International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships

 

Edited January 25, 2021 by MartynG

[Tracy D'arth]

ID  Internal Diameter

OD Outside Diameter,  Overall Diameter.

CoG Centre of Gravity.

 

[pete.i]

Works for me on desktop running windows 10 using Firefox.

 

[Tracy D'arth]

LHT  Left Hand Thread.

[Alan de Enfield]

3 hours ago, Ray T said:

Does that include NBTA which can have a multitude of meanings?

 

2 hours ago, Ray T said:

The Baton Twirlers have had quite a few mentions on the site over the years.

 

 

No

Boats

Travel

Anywhere

 

 

National

Boats always

Tied up

Association

 

National

Baton 

Twirlers

Association

 

 

Edited January 25, 2021 by Alan de Enfield

[rmo]

Thanks all please keep them coming. 

[springy]

And a few other threads :

BSP British Standard Pipe

NPT National Pipe Thread (US)

 

UNF and UNC UNified Fine and Coarse

BSW British Standard Whitworth

 

springy

 

[blackrose]

I always thought acronyms were only those abbreviations taken from the first letters of the words contained in them, that could be pronounced as a word, not just read out as letters.

 

So NABO is an acronym but NB, RCD or CRT aren't, unless the last one is pronounced as the word CaRT.

 

That's my understanding of acronyms anyway.

[Alan de Enfield]

5 hours ago, blackrose said:

I always thought acronyms were only those abbreviations taken from the first letters of the words contained in them, that could be pronounced as a word, not just read out as letters.

 

So NABO is an acronym but NB, RCD or CRT aren't, unless the last one is pronounced as the word CaRT.

 

That's my understanding of acronyms anyway.

 

 

 

As the registered name is Canal & River Trust, the only reason why CRT have dropped the & is because of a lack of thought & imagination in the Marketing Department when coming up with the name - who'd have thunk it, no one would come up with "putting the C&RT before the horse" or "now were are in the C&RT", or "the wheel has fallen off the C&RT"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 26, 2021 by Alan de Enfield

[Tam & Di]

5 hours ago, blackrose said:

I always thought acronyms were only those abbreviations taken from the first letters of the words contained in them, that could be pronounced as a word, not just read out as letters.

 Exactly so. NB, IWA, RCD, BBC etc are initialisms

 

Tam

[doratheexplorer]

GU - Grand Union

K&A - Kennet and Avon

FMC - Fellows, Morton and Clayton

CC - continuous cruiser

C&H - Calder and Hebble

HNC - Huddersfield Narrow Canal

HWC - Huddersfield Wide Canal

[David Mack]

1 minute ago, doratheexplorer said:

 

HWC - Huddersfield Wide Canal

Broad, not Wide.

[Momac]

10 hours ago, blackrose said:

I always thought acronyms were only those abbreviations taken from the first letters of the words contained in them, that could be pronounced as a word, not just read out as letters.

 

So NABO is an acronym but NB, RCD or CRT aren't, unless the last one is pronounced as the word CaRT.

 

That's my understanding of acronyms anyway.

[dor]

According to Gyles Brandreth:

”Some style guides now advocate only using capitals throughout for acronyms where the letters are individually pronounced - e.g. they would capitalise all of ‘BBC’ and ‘EU’ but only the first letters in ‘Nato’ or ‘Nasa’. Because it’s what now happens, I accept it, but I do not approve.  I think putting each letter in capitals is a useful reminder that it is part of an acronym.”

 

Gyles considers himself a bit of an authority on the English language, and seems to accept that a run of initial letters is an acronym.  As for NATO or Nato,  Apple autocorrect prefers the former also.  What do you prefer?

[Jerra]

1 hour ago, dor said:

According to Gyles Brandreth:

”Some style guides now advocate only using capitals throughout for acronyms where the letters are individually pronounced - e.g. they would capitalise all of ‘BBC’ and ‘EU’ but only the first letters in ‘Nato’ or ‘Nasa’. Because it’s what now happens, I accept it, but I do not approve.  I think putting each letter in capitals is a useful reminder that it is part of an acronym.”

 

Gyles considers himself a bit of an authority on the English language, and seems to accept that a run of initial letters is an acronym.  As for NATO or Nato,  Apple autocorrect prefers the former also.  What do you prefer?

I prefer NATO but if I follow what I was taught at school I would have to type N.A.T.O.

 

Nato reads to my ancient brain as if it was pronounced nat-o.

[matty40s]

3 hours ago, David Mack said:

Broad, not Wide.

HSLBC ...Short Locked

[David Mack]

29 minutes ago, matty40s said:

HSLBC ...Short Locked

Not forgetting that its neighbour is sometimes known as the HVNC.

[billh]

Late to the party here, what about:

TPW   =Tow Path Walker (Towpath Walker)

[bizzard]

PPE. 

[IanD]

16 hours ago, Jerra said:

I prefer NATO but if I follow what I was taught at school I would have to type N.A.T.O.

 

Nato reads to my ancient brain as if it was pronounced nat-o.

You don't want to do that, you might accidentally find yourself eating natto...

 

For those unaware, a Japanese delicacy consisting of fermented soybeans coated in sticky slimy stinky snot. Traditionally served cold for breakfast in a bowl, with a raw egg broken into a hollow in the middle. We used it as the last stage in a food boat race once, some people either gagged or threw up trying to eat it. Very much an acquired taste ?

Edited January 27, 2021 by IanD

[system 4-50]

Can we have a toolTip for "amps per hour"?

[Hudds Lad]

16 hours ago, David Mack said:

Not forgetting that its neighbour is sometimes known as the HVNC.

 

thats the HSC or Huddersfield Shallow Canal  

[IanD]

13 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

 

thats the HSC or Huddersfield Shallow Canal  

or sometimes the HEC -- Huddersfield Empty Canal...

[Hudds Lad]

1 hour ago, IanD said:

or sometimes the HEC -- Huddersfield Empty Canal...

 

i'd like to disagree with you ........ but i can't