A large part of learning to sail a boat is learning the terminology.
Everything has a name and none of the names coincide with non-nautical experience.
For instance, a “rope” on a sailboat refers to the metal part of a line usually used to the main sail. What non-sailors would call a rope, sailors call a line.
There’s a working vocabulary of 50-100 such terms and then hundreds more when you start talking about very specific pieces of equipment.
Everything has a name and none of the names coincide with non-nautical experience.
For instance, a “rope” on a sailboat refers to the metal part of a line usually used to the main sail. What non-sailors would call a rope, sailors call a line.
There’s a working vocabulary of 50-100 such terms and then hundreds more when you start talking about very specific pieces of equipment.