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Boats and Ships Historically, poets long known for their rhymes about the sea, had a name for small boats; they called them barks. How did these poets rhyme their poems with bark? Hark, I saw a bark
They were having such a lark, singing on their bark! Then a more romantic poet may have written--Everyone parted from the bark and strolled around the park. Can you imagine a modern day fisherman saying--Lets get our "bass barks" and go fishing in the dark. It's time to barge into
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What slang is used when referring to a barge? It's a
boat, any clumsy boat. Isn't it strange a barge was called a "pleasure" boat and going
back deeper in time the Pharaohs call it an Egyptian boat. Regardless, it's still a
flat bottomed boat for hauling large heavy freight. It's slow, sluggish and what else
can you say for a wide, flat, dumb boat. (Sorry, I got carried away with my emotions).
Let's while away the time and slowly drift to Italy.Paddling along on a lazy afternoon
In Venice Italy, your boat may be a gondola captained by
a gondolier captain or would it be a paddler captain using an overgrown oar?
I forget, do paddler's sing as they paddle their gondolas or are they simply paddling
around in an overgrown canoe? What happens to the gondola if it sinks--would it
become junk?Don't blame it on me, I never
called them junk
The Chinese called their ships junk. Where, oh where,
did the name  come from?
Could it have been a derivative of the Chinese name for a boat chuan? It may have
developed from a combination of many languages, example -Fr. jonque. But then define junk:
junk has many names like old metal, glass, rags, trash, scrap, paper, and any useless
stuff found in a dump. What does this mean? Are we referring to a dumpy boat? Not really. A "junk"
boat is probably the most stable and seaworthy of all boats, made from wood and divided into
various compartments which makes it almost unsinkable.Throughout the years
It seems that all boats originated in time forgotten. The first boat
used was probably a branch or part of a tree or lighter than water vegetation. The Egyptians
used a ship called a "dhow". There were many sizes and shapes of boats and ships throughout
the years. Do you recall an outrigger, a paddle wheel, galleon, keel boats, a raft, clipper
ships, flat tops, atomic subs, and battle ships? Down to the sea in ships
It's a phrase that embodies what sailors have in their blood.
 The
smell of the sea, the love of adventure, the rain, the wind, the sky, the beauty of
distance, and riding the swell of waves. A sense of peace within a sailor's mind is the
result of the open seas, their boats, and ships.A friend of mine was standing on a dock with one foot in his boat and one foot on the dock; you guess what happened. I think I'll split now. |
