20 Terms
Contributors in General boating
General boating
Marlinspike
Boat; General boating
A tool used in ropework for tasks such as unlaying rope for splicing, untying knots, or forming a makeshift handle.
Mould
Boat; General boating
A template of the shape of the hull in transverse section. Several moulds are used to form a temporary framework around which a hull is built.
Scudding
Boat; General boating
A term applied to a vessel when carried furiously along by a tempest.
Mess deck catering
Boat; General boating
A system of catering in which a standard ration is issued to a mess supplemented by a money allowance which may be used by the mess to buy additional victuals from the pusser's stores or elsewhere. ...
Lateral system
Boat; General boating
A system of aids to navigation in which characteristics of buoys and beacons indicate the sides of the channel or route relative to a conventional direction of buoyage (usually upstream).
Canister
Boat; General boating
A type of antipersonnel cannon load in which lead balls or other loose metallic items were enclosed in a tin or iron shell. On firing, the shell would disintegrate, releasing the smaller metal ...
