Greenie= Heineken

I knew you were going to add that one. Here's another.

Whiskin': Stirring up, building quite nicely, as in the breeze. Example: "She's whiskin', boys."

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Jib driver: Jib tender; One who drives Jib to and from races.

Who knows the origins of Jemimah's Witnesses? And what does it mean? Or who are these people?

Jemimah's Witnesses= Family Guy
Syrup icon Aunt Jemima appears in the beginning of "Death Has a Shadow" offering pancakes to the family. Peter makes a reference to Jemima's Witnesses, a spoof on the Jehovah's Witnesses.

You All want some Pancakes?

Gashole- A motor boater that punches in the destination on their auto pilot and passes us as fast as they can while we are in tow.

Rodney: a large power boat throwing a bow wave and heading right for you. Named for Rodney Dangerfield who played Al Czervik in Caddy Shack (You scratched my anchor!)

Use: "It's a sunny day on the Chester river, so you know the Rodney's will be out."

Ahh... Rodneys... 

I've always wondered if all the captains said this when they launch each summer..
"Its easy to grin...
when your ship comes in...
and you've got the stock market beat...
but the man worth while..
is the man who can smile..
when his shorts are too tight in the seat..."
 
Spaulding get your foot off the boat.... 

 

I think the captians should be more concerned that the chase boat is in good working order so that Lacey Underall will be comfortable. If you want lots of bow candy, the chase boat has to be comfortable!

Let the Big Dog Eat: bearing away from the wind to open the slot between the jib and the fore; the opposite of pinching.

use: "Come on! You can't pinch your way to the windward mark! Fall off and let the big dog eat!"

Another term I forgot to add was "logfather" (which doesn't have to be a man). Your logfather is the person who first introduced you -- or in my case, shanghaied you aboard -- to log canoe racing. For many out there, your log father is your actual father. For me, it is the legendary boardman Russell Stone, whose own logfather, I believe, is Mike Rajacich. This, I assume, makes Cap'n Mikey my grandlogfather.
We should draw up a family tree.

Fresh of a steady whiskin' Saturday on the Miles, during which we witnessed a Kielbasa dunking of shemarys, Robert Bouquet performing live (if wet) on Woodstock and Lucky Charms dumping her part of this complete breakfast not once but twice (when they capsize, is it crying over spilt milk?), I feel the need to add a few terms to the logsicon. One is an old sturdy standby; the other two are fresh and clean.
1. Blossoming: whiskin', but to a slightly brisker degree, producing conditions enjoyed by the Island Blossom, whose primaries have probably doubled their girth in the past five years.
2. Sasquelch: An alleged ape-like creature said to inhabit remote interiors of springboards, mainly in the Chesapeake Bay region of the United States. Nanticoke Indians knew the creature by the name of Dar-eh-D'n'he, an ancient moniker meaning "smell like wet possum." Sasquelch is sometimes described as a large, hairy, bearded bipedal hominid, and some believe this creature -- while never photographed -- makes off with copious quantities of beer. Several loggers attest to hearing strange, belching grunts that seem to emmanate from thin air.
3. This one needs a proper setup. In every young aspiring logger's life there comes an age when he rises up from the bilge and a boyhood spent toiling with bail buckets and makes his virginal foray onto the boards. This moment is a grand coming-out milestone in a boardman's development and is therefore celebrated accordingly. We call it a ... wait for it ... Board Mitzvah.

Poultry Maneuver - When the primeries are too old to handle a jibe at the mark. Also known as a chicken jibe.

This will need to be vetted through the prestigious House of Jibtenders, the Skippers' Club and of course the Boardman's Union, but it has come to my attention that Sweet Corn now wishes to be known as Candy Corn, which they have taken to carrying in their pockets and filling certain primaries' silver cups with (much appreciated). I for one like it; however, it might be even slicker if they carted around ears of actual corn. And if you slip on your way out the board on a wisp of cornsilk, you know who left it.
Candy Corn is thus a third derivative. Silver Heel sounds like Silver Queen = Sweet Corn = Candy Corn. Generations hence, if the equations continue to progress, young loggers may refer to her as Trick-or-Treat.
Mystery may be interested to know we may have finally found her a suitable nickname despite her unfortunate absence. It came from an overheard term uttered by famous board captain Jeep Jallade at lunchtime, and developed into Head Cheese. You figure it out.
I don't know what to make of the renamed, fresh-out-of-mothballs Mary Julia Hall and its purple-shirted gang. We'll have to see how she smells after a few trips around the course, but I do believe she sports a deer stand on her outrigger, which sounds like the kind of detail that must be factored into a new moniker.
If this is repetition, forgive me (it may have been uttered before), but Spirit of Wyetown = Ghost of Whoville or simply Whoville. Should January White now be known as Dr. Suess?
Other terms born this weekend:
Premary: a precociously large infant or toddler who may one day grow up to be a primary
Little B.I.T.: a young Boardman in Training.
Optimary Prime and Optimus Primary (courtesy of Whiskey Ticklehorn): A legendary shemary and primary prophesized by the ancients, capable of holding down canoes singlehandedly during a waterspout, devouring mass quantities of food -- raw, fried, rotten or rancid -- and swilling double-proof liquor by the gallon. No one knows how or when these perhaps mythical icons will rise up from the bilges and conquer the fleet.