It's jive

MrSpaggiari said...

Hi all,

Okay, is it Jibe or Gybe? Water start or waterstart, beach start or beachstart

Need help deciding.

Cool

As far as I know "jibe" is the American spelling, English/Australian is "gybe", I tend to run words together so opt for beachstart and waterstart, but they probably aren't in any dictionary.


And I'm not sure if there is any equivalent to "kite buddy", or if anybody would want there to be one.

Maybe they were trying to get to Cowes, but when they passed Portland Bill somebody said 'Jibe', nobody knew what it meant and they ended up in America ? Since then all Americans have said 'jibe'.

Why would sailors have gybe but also jib ?

Surely if you pronounance gybe as jib with and ee sound at the end it should be spelt jib with an e ??


Maybe kiters need kite buddies to act as cabin boys and scrub the poop decks ??

Gybe-jibe is a pom-yank thing. Both are accepted. However gybe has an extra, derogatory connotation...

"Gybe" has a unique meaning and is proper English. "Jibe" has at least three and is American in its nautical sense.

While we're on the subject - It's "VULCAN" not "volcan" or "volcano"

And its "PLANING GYBE" not "power gybe" which is an archaic long board term for a rig steered gybe according to an apocryphal source

As for the "Flaka", Pedrick invented it adapting the "Taka" and called it a "Swayze".
"Flaka" may be a better name because it acknowledges its routes in a semi eponymous manner and also because it almost rhymes with "tack" and it is a tack wise rotation. However Patrick Swayze croaked a few months ago. Wouldn't it be a nice memorial gesture to revert to its original name? Could it happen? Will it happen? Or would you rather forget?

I just thought of another one, the Haas tack - another eponymous term for a planing push tack. It was invented by a Moroccan names Haas Jahrmarkt. Americans often refer to it as a "Hoss" tack presumably because "Haas" is indistinguishable from "Hoss" when said with a broad American accent. he he

ha ha ahh man

Whilst on Windsurfing speak,
here's a term I hear used frequently in windsurfing circles, that really annoys me 'cos it sounds wanky and imported from another country.......

KIT

"I need to get some new kit" or "does any body know where you can hire kit when travelling to ....."

Sounds so wanky.

In Oz, we used to just call it "stuff".

....."I need to get some new windsurfing stuff, mines outdated" or "SHQ and RPS are worth dropping in to, they carry heaps of stuff"

Even "equipment" is fine, but "kit" is something you buy in a little packet to repair something.

- I reckon it came to us from the Poms, via Boards magazine.
(anyway, it bugs me)

Oh, and don't get me started on "running".

...."I run a 32cm swept fin with my 6.5", or "I've been running my NP Alpha on a RDM"

. ..... It's "use" and "using"

Rant over!