Yep. My point was that I consider my Bermudu 30 ketch to be a narrow boat, a full 2 feet narrower than a Catalina 30. But it is not a narrowboat, it is a full keel sailing auxiliary.
We all know that boating has a specific vocabulary that helps improve communication and our electric boating niche has a few more distinctions. This topic is one of those places where using the right term will help keep people on topic.
Fair winds,
Eric
Marina del Rey, CA
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, danbollinger <no_reply@...> wrote:
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> Check out this WikiPedia page. There are regional narrowboat associations, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrowboat
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> --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Eric" <ewdysar@> wrote:
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> > Just a little personal "aha!" moment. A "narrowboat" (one word, noun) means something more specific than a "narrow boat" (two words, adjective and noun) which could be a kayak, canoe, rowing shell, rum runner, etc. etc., perhaps even a narrrowboat.
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> > That may be the source of some of the confusion....
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> > Fair winds,
> > Eric
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