Have we decided on a name for the anchor maneuver?

  • Fritzbube
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    The Devil's Turn

  • F4sT x SpRaYZz

    @imprudentgoose Me and my friends call it ankle breaker or tokyo drift

  • Flaming Jeckyll
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    @majestic-sight

    I was just going by pop culture reference from Pirates Disney and Wiki. Your probably right.

    "(nautical) A risky maneuver whereby a sail-boat tacks (turns sharply into the wind) by dropping one of the front anchors, the intent being to snag the anchor on the seabed and use the ship's momentum to swing it around faster than could otherwise be accomplished; it is essentially a nautical handbrake turn."

    Googles definition is probably more accurate.

    "Definition of clubhaul. : to put (a ship) on the other tack when in danger of going into irons by dropping the lee anchor as the vessel's head comes to the wind and hauling on a hawser from the lee quarter to the anchor until the vessel pays off on the other tack."

    Muggles... "Did I just reference harry potter?"
    Sorry for the sarcasm but I couldn't help it

    On the side note. I do think Club hauling should be delayed as the anchor drags on the ground more. When I drop my Anchor on sand when I am out at sea It can take a while to snag. Then I have to cut the rope or go dive and get it.

  • Stormwalker9517
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    @jackal-guardian Yeah google is pretty accurate I actually sail in real life and if you were to do this at speed it would just snap the anchor chain or if it held tear apart your ship. PotC is so far from accurate its not even funny making Sea of Thieves even less then accurate.

    Anchor Turn is really the closest to accurate name

  • goblinsmeg4270
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    @imprudentgoose Anchory Swing Abouty Boaty

  • DeviLettuce
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    Bootleg turn, that's what Captain Jack Sparrow called it, when he tricked the one Captain in "On Stranger Tides". Course he lassoed a rock to make the turn, but it's all the same. The Bootleg Turn.

  • Djporks69

    @redan-vir Bootpegleg turn* hahahaha

  • daftPirate
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    I probably shouldn't be surprised to learn that PotC had innacurate terminology, but I'm still gonna call it club hauling.

  • R0B0Tmonkey
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    I and my crew just yell out either "flip a U-ey" or "drift mode"

  • JDrage 51
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    I tend to call it the 'panic turn'. Keeps my crew aware of what is happening

  • FuzzyPyrate
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    @redan-vir said in Have we decided on a name for the anchor maneuver?:

    @ragefire31

    Hah! Just a graphic! Here is more to support my thought.

    EDIT: Time stamp didn't work apparently. Go to about 2 minutes in.

    That's sounds perfect to me....The Bootleg Maneuver.

    "PREPARE THE BOOTLEG!" or in my case, I'd be yelling "Stand by for TBM!"

  • boaton

    @saglant777 if you’re a Canuck, aboat face🤣

  • demonicthing
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    @imprudentgoose as captain I usually either saw "we are going hard to port/ starboard ready on anchor! 3, 2, 1 now!"

    then 1 of us usually will man one of the cannons (usually our best canoneer)

  • Elephantghost26
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    I just call it a handbrake turn

  • Sandmanbakery
    Marauder

    it's called club hauling

  • Mr Oranje
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    @djporks69 I like just "pegleg turn". It references bootleg, but makes it more piratey.

  • Djporks69

    @mr-oranje Haha yeah, I think I'll start calling it that.

  • Kingheadshot515
    Founder

    It has always been called a bootleg turn, in boating. And from boating incorporated in driving terms.

  • WIF Badger

    Vote for the Jimmy twist! Tbh its the easiest to say, just be like prep for the jimmy twist! Anchor away!!

  • LOGETITTIES

    It is called club-hauling.

    One is performed by The Black Pearl and specifically called by the correct term by Barbosa in The Pirates of the Carribean: "They're Club-Haullin!"

    See sources at the bottom of this Wikipedia link.

  • Evasive Envy

    I call it:

    "I'll-lock-the-wheel-soon-so-get-ready-to-drop-anchor-and-then-raise-it-right-away-so-that-we-do-a-uturn"

    Mostly because my crew has no idea.

  • DeadPool G36
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    The dirty harry?

  • mini gun jeff

    jackknifing is the real turn for that type of movement for a boat in real life

  • LoboFH
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    It's a Crazy Ivan, no ifs or ands or buts about it.

  • CIustaFlux
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    We just call it a Boot Turn.

  • WizenSquire1113

    I call it bob

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