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Old 02-13-2017, 09:41 PM   #67
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markpierce wrote, "Oh! the debauchery of a pleasure boat."

The reference to debauchery while afloat calls to mind the time-honored, evocative and technically precise boating term used to refer to a certain category of yacht: "gin palace."

I've never heard anyone utter the term over the VHF, but it's been muttered occasionally in my pilothouse, or in the cockpit of my sailboat - er, S/V.
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