Chinese gybe
n.— «In the groove everything goes well but, every now again, a large set of waves can knock the stern around too much for comfort. Given the wind strength, the possibility of broaching (bow points too close to wind and boat heels over severely) or doing a chinese gybe (stern goes involuntary through the wind) are quite real.» —“So what exactly is a Chinese Gybe?” by Howard Russell BBC Bews (U.K.) Dec. 30, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, listener has been pondering the saying It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good, and specifically whether she uses it correctly. The expression usually appears as It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good, means that...
A Charlotte, North Carolina, shares her granddaughter’s adorable misunderstanding of a word. When a breeze was blowing, the little girl would say it’s winding (rhyming more or less with “wending” rather than “minding”). This is part of a complete...
Anybody have a video clip of a
“Chinese gybe”. If so, thanks in
advance for emailing to me at
mdt1@columbia.edu
thanks,
dave