Abreviations used when boating

[DeanS]

Hello:) I thought it might be helpful to newbies like myself if we had a list of all the abbreviations used in the boating world?

 

Here's the start of the list:

 

BW - British Waterways

SWMBO - She who must be obeyed

RCR - River and Canal Rescue ???(I think)

[Dalesman]

How about

L & L..Leeds and Liverpool Canal

MSC..Manchester Ship Canal

BSS..Boat Saftey Scheme

Edited February 1, 2011 by Dalesman

[Dekazer]

Yes, you're right about RCR.

 

A few more organisations that everyone refers to by their initials are:

 

RBOA - Residential Boat Owners' Association

IWA - Inland Waterways Association

BWML - British Waterways Marine Limited (the commercial arm of BW)

 

I'm sure more will occur to me in time Were there any you've seen used about which you're unsure? Regular forum users are always liable to slipping into abbreviations and jargon..

[carlt]

NOYFB - None of your business.

[canaldrifter]

This might help:

 

http://www.waterways.org.uk/information/waterways_abbreviations

 

Tone

[Guest]

This might help:

 

http://www.waterways.org.uk/information/waterways_abbreviations

 

Tone

 

Why on earth is it referred to as a 'secret code list' ?

[canaldrifter]

Why on earth is it referred to as a 'secret code list' ?

 

Cos it's hard to find??

 

tone

[system 4-50]

And the obvious (for some of us) SWMO.

[alan_fincher]

A few more organisations that everyone refers to by their initials are:

 

RBOA - Residential Boat Owners' Association

IWA - Inland Waterways Association

BWML - British Waterways Marine Limited (the commercial arm of BW)

Pedant alert!

 

Actually it is....

 

BWML - British Waterways Marinas Limited

[boatfairy]

How about GTTP - Gone to the Pub

[Liam]

SUC - Shropshire Union Canal

T&M - Trent & Mersey Canal

GUC - Grand Union Canal

EA - Environment Agency

CW/CWF/CWDF - Canal World Discussion Forums

[journeyperson]

WTF? I think it stands for Waterways Travellers Federation, often said whilst pointing at a boat moored on a lock landing for weeks on end.

[gbmud]

NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard!

 

Chris

[Lady Muck]

WTF? I think it stands for Waterways Travellers Federation, often said whilst pointing at a boat moored on a lock landing for weeks on end.

 

I thought it meant a sprung steel mattress had wrapped itself around the propellor. Or is that FFS?

[Hairy-Neil]

SUC - Shropshire Union Canal

T&M - Trent & Mersey Canal

GUC - Grand Union Canal

 

TBA - Thames Berks & Andover

[Dekazer]

Pedant alert!

 

Actually it is....

 

BWML - British Waterways Marinas Limited

 

Arf, whatevs

[Albion]

I thought it meant a sprung steel mattress had wrapped itself around the propellor. Or is that FFS?

If that disaster happens I always thought that the abbreviations went on for a lot longer including the time that your hand and arm loses all sensation after delving in the cold water.

Roger

Edited February 2, 2011 by Albion

[Keeping Up]

NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard!

 

Chris

 

In this context shouldn't that me "Not in my Boat Yard" ?

[Machpoint005]

BSS might be considered quite an important one

(Boat Safety Scheme)

[Chertsey]

To be pedantic, SWMBO is not a boating term, it is a Rumpole term.

 

What I want to know is, how do you pronounce Staffs & Worcs?

[sociable_hermit]

I thought it meant a sprung steel mattress had wrapped itself around the propellor. Or is that FFS?

OFFS is the abbreviation for "I appear to have made a small navigational error".

 

GAFMO is used whenever a boat has occupied a lock chamber for more than 20 minutes with no apparent signs of progress.

[magpie patrick]

If I'm being lazy it's staffs and works, never staff and wuss. I sometimes call it the stiff and worse though, a canal which features the Botch flight

 

There tends to be local abbs, I'm not sure the Gloucester and Sharpness is ever called the G&S by those who aren't based on it

 

you also have to be careful, Charles Hadfield (canal man and more) once noted that he had to redo a piece of research because he'd use the abbreviation W&B in his notes, when he referred to them a year later, he realised there were three canals with those initials, and he didn't know which one it was!

[Midnight Rider]

If I'm being lazy it's staffs and works, never staff and wuss. I sometimes call it the stiff and worse though, a canal which features the Botch flight

 

Not to mention Bum Hole Lock

 

Tony

[Dyad]

WTF? I think it stands for Waterways Travellers Federation, often said whilst pointing at a boat moored on a lock landing for weeks on end.

 

WTF - Why the face, from an episode of Modern Family.

[Chertsey]

If I'm being lazy it's staffs and works, never staff and wuss. I sometimes call it the stiff and worse though, a canal which features the Botch flight

 

There tends to be local abbs, I'm not sure the Gloucester and Sharpness is ever called the G&S by those who aren't based on it

 

you also have to be careful, Charles Hadfield (canal man and more) once noted that he had to redo a piece of research because he'd use the abbreviation W&B in his notes, when he referred to them a year later, he realised there were three canals with those initials, and he didn't know which one it was!

It comes out for me as 'Staffs and Wooks'; someone the other day started saying it and thought better of it and it was 'Staffs and Wor...cestershire'. Is Staffie acceptable?