3 Terms
Contributors in General boating
General boating
Grog
Boat; General boating
Watered-down pusser's rum consisting of half a gill with equal part of water, issued to all seamen over twenty. (CPOs and POs were issued with neat rum) From the British Admiral Vernon who, in 1740, ...
Lying ahull
Boat; General boating
Waiting out a storm by dousing all sails and simply letting the boat drift.
Range lights
Boat; General boating
Two lights associated to form a range (a line formed by the extension of a line connecting two charted points) which often, but not necessarily, indicates the channel centerline. The front range ...
Owner
Boat; General boating
Traditional Royal Navy term for the Captain, a survival from the days when privately-owned ships were often hired for naval service.
