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Catboat

Boat; General boating

A cat-rigged vessel with a single mast mounted close to the bow, and only one sail, usually on a gaff.

Ready about

Boat; General boating

A call to indicate imminent tacking (see going about).

Ahull

Boat; General boating

1. When the boat is lying broadside to the sea. 2. To ride out a storm with no sails and helm held to leeward.

Waterway

Boat; General boating

1. Waterway, a navigable body of water. 2. A strake of timber laid against the frames or bulwark stanchions at the margin of a laid wooden deck, usually about twice the thickness of the deck ...

Fish

Boat; General boating

1. To repair a mast or spar with a fillet of wood. 2. To secure an anchor on the side of the ship for sea (otherwise known as "catting".)

Dressing down

Boat; General boating

1. Treating old sails with oil or wax to renew them. 2. A verbal reprimand.

Tumblehome

Boat; General boating

A description of hull shape when viewed in a transverse section, where the widest part of the hull is someway below deck level.

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