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Nipper
Boat; General boating
Short rope used to bind a cable to the "messenger" (a moving line propelled by the capstan) so that the cable is dragged along too (used where the cable is too large to be wrapped round the capstan ...
Shoal draught
Boat; General boating
Shallow draught, making the vessel capable of sailing in unusually shallow water.
Leeway
Boat; General boating
The amount that a ship is blown leeward by the wind. See also weatherly.
Leech
Boat; General boating
The aft or trailing edge of a fore-and-aft sail; the leeward edge of a spinnaker; a vertical edge of a square sail. The leech is susceptible to twist, which is controlled by the boom vang, mainsheet ...
Spanker-mast
Boat; General boating
The aft-most mast of a fore-and-aft or gaff-rigged vessel such as schooners, barquentines, and barques. A full-rigged ship has a spanker sail but not a spanker-mast (see Jigger-mast).
Propeller walk or prop walk
Boat; General boating
Tendency for a propeller to push the stern sideways. In theory a right hand propeller in reverse will walk the stern to port.
Earrings
Boat; General boating
Small lines, by which the uppermost corners of the largest sails are secured to the yardarms.
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