English French Nautical Terms

English speaking sailors cruising in New Caledonia may need to understand certain nautical terms that are not in your usual English-French phase books.

You might, for example, need to know the word to buy a turnbuckle or a shackle. One of the best sites to visit for these terms is Ken Turner's English-French Sailing Dictionary at:

http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/sailing/eng-fr.html

Another excellent site with on-line lookup of french technical words is

http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index800_1.asp

Most of the time, however, English speaking sailors are able to find someone to assist with the translation or will find someone in the store who understands English (combined with show and tell and hand gestures).

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