General boating

General boating

Industry: Boat

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General boating

A ball woven out of line used to provide heft to heave the line to another location. The monkey fist and other heaving-line knots were sometimes weighted with lead (easily available in the form of ...

Tacking

Boat; General boating

1. Zig-zagging so as to sail directly towards the wind (and for some rigs also away from it). 2. Going about (qv).

Cheeks

Boat; General boating

1. Wooden blocks at the side of a spar. 2. The sides of a block or gun-carriage.

Cat

Boat; General boating

1. To prepare an anchor, after raising it by lifting it with a tackle to the cat head, prior to securing (fishing) it alongside for sea. (An anchor raised to the cat head is said to be catted.) 2. ...

Belay

Boat; General boating

1. To make fast a line around a fitting, usually a cleat or belaying pin. 2. An order to halt a current activity or countermand an order prior to execution.

Gaff

Boat; General boating

1. The spar that holds the upper edge of a four-sided fore-and-aft mounted sail. 2. A hook on a long pole to haul fish in.

Hydrofoil

Boat; General boating

A boat with wing-like foils mounted on struts below the hull, lifting the hull entirely out of the water at speed and allowing water resistance to be greatly reduced.