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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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General sailing
ardent
Sailing; General sailing
A vessel is said to be ardent when she gripes or shows a tendency to come to against a weather helm.
hiking stick
Sailing; General sailing
An extension of the tiller that enables the helms man to sir at a distance from it.
hard chine
Sailing; General sailing
An abrupt intersection between the hull side and the hull bottom of a boat so constructed.
pitching
Sailing; General sailing
The plunging motion of a vessel when she dives by the head; the opposite motion to 'scending, which is rising by the head and sinking by the stern.
foresail
Sailing; General sailing
In square rigged ships the large lower sail set on the foremast; in cutters the triangular sail or jib foresail set on the forestay; in fore-and-aft schooners the gaff sail set abaft the foremast.
clinch
Sailing; General sailing
To fasten a rope by a half hitch, and seize the end hack to the other part; a method adopted with very large ropes or hawsers after they have to be bent to rings, &c. in a hurry. To clinch is also to ...
unmoored
Sailing; General sailing
A vessel is also said to be "unmoored" when she is riding to a single anchor, as to be moored two anchors must be down, or she must be fast to a permanent mooring.
