Sea farers' language

[Captain Kong]

Banjo fleet,

[Lewis McColl]

Common ones, The Old man, Jimmy the one, Harry Tate, Bully Beef, Pumpy, Lampy.

[Tony Taylor]

Yer memory slipping a bit there Des, unless you've mistyped

A dogsleg is an angled brush either round or flat

a Fitch is a small flat brush with sloping bristles, normally used for decorative work, plus plimsolls and draught mark edges if you had a pernickety mate.

ha ha Ivan - decorative work? more like slap it on anything that stays still for 30 seconds, if it moves - well you know the rest to that one.

[Michael Black]

Marian #@13, when we were painting an alleyway deckhead or similar, if you got the section with a lot of pipes or trunking in it that was a banjo fleet. The older hands would usually "" work the head "" and work it so that they would get a clear area.
Regards Michael

[Roger Millard]

Marian #@13, when we were painting an alleyway deckhead or similar, if you got the section with a lot of pipes or trunking in it that was a banjo fleet. The older hands would usually "" work the head "" and work it so that they would get a clear area.
Regards Michael

And of course not forgetting the "Holiday"which none of us would own up to.

[Ivan Cloherty]

#14, Ah! Tony! don't you remember the Ben Line vssls with their Chinese painters and the panelled outside bulkheads, made to look like wooden varnished panels with thistles and petal line in each corner. No transfers in those days.

[j.sabourn]

#13 and if you haven’t worked out holiday yet it’s the bit you missed JS. #16

[Captain Kong]

Thank s Michael for telling Marian what a Banjo Fleet was or is.
No.15
exactly that.
Cheers
Brian

[Roger Millard]

with all this nautical term information Marian you will not be scuppered, Regards R.

[Ivan Cloherty]

#21, I'd always go down fighting Roger that's my mantra

We'll get #4 hatch ready, anybody in particular??, I think I know the answer