Free Yacht Chapter 7: Get an Even Better One and Fabulize it.

Step 12 William Randolph Hoist

The big moment comes and the giant machine is there. The man driving it is a nerveless demigod whose job is to wrench gold-plated yachts from their native element .
He does not dwell on what might have gone wrong.

There's a name plate on the side of the machine that says "William Randolph Hoist".
There's a smaller machine named "Patty Hoist" that moves the smaller monohulls.

Comments

[Wade Tarzia]

Cool names for the hoists. I'll add them to my "Occupational Folklore -- informal machine-nicknames" list. Let me know if you hear/have leard any others.

[hintss]

molly guard - the cover thing over emergency stop buttons, named after Molly, a programmer's daughter, who kept hitting the emergency stop on the mainframe. some plexiglass later, and tada!

[Smeeon]

its tradition for all smokehouse smokers to have a name before they are used for the first time.

[Wade Tarzia]

PS -- are those amas asymmetric?

[TimAnderson]

yes. on every axis

[Wade Tarzia]

What does that mean? (I feel embarrassed to ask....)

[TimAnderson]

that whole "axis of symmetry" thing, where you could slice it in half and the halves would be mirror images of each other.