| MS, My Sweetie |
Mary |
| YT |
Yours Truly |
| Dirt Dweller |
Living without water under your home |
| Your Time |
after retirement AND you have purchased your little white fiberglass ship...if not, refer to the above |
| CIB |
Catamaran Ice Breaker - we used the catamaran dinghy to break sheet ice in some anchorages during Egret's winter cruise in southern Chile |
| RBG's |
Really Big Guys - forecast wave height are average wave heights. Occasionally sets of two or three RBG's roll thru in a mix of forecast wave heights |
| AG |
Aquarium Glass - AG occurs when spray on the pilothouse windshield glass is no longer spray but solid water like looking into an aquarium |
| CCOM |
Coffeecarryometer - The CCOM is a measuring devise first recorded by the Spanish* during the years they were plundering South America. The CCOM is a 1-10 scale describing degrees of difficulty to carry a cup of coffee from the galley fires to the poop deck. In Egret's case this is from the galley to the pilothouse. *found during archival research in Madrid some years back |
| USP |
U.S. Pesos = U.S. dollars. For the first time since leaving the States the US dollar has stopped sliding |
| HBC |
Honda Beater Car - our first car in 7 years. All 700 USP worth. |
| tings |
Bahamian slang for things |
