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Aft

Back side of the seacraft. The term is not used on tis own, but in a phrase: aft-end - at the rear end of the seacraft; aft wings, the rear; aft thruster - stern thruster, taking into account the sense of reference) the one that points to the stem of the craft. The same as stern.

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