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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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weather boards
Sailing; General sailing
Pieces of boards fitted over open ports to direct water or rain off.
bark
Sailing; General sailing
Usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft.
stream
Sailing; General sailing
The direction of the flood tide and ebb tide. The tides in the Channel are usually referred to as the eastern stream for the flood and western stream for the ebb.
bark
Sailing; General sailing
Usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft.
fitted out
Sailing; General sailing
When a vessel is "all-a-taunto,'' which see. A vessel ready to proceed to sea.
jib-boom
Sailing; General sailing
The spar beyond the bowsprit in schooners upon which the outer jib is set.
bark
Sailing; General sailing
Usually a three masted vessel, the fore and main masts square rigged and the mizzen mast or after mast rigged fore and aft.
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