General sailing

General sailing

Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.

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aground

Sailing; General sailing

Touching or fast to the bottom. A vessel is said to be aground when her keel or bottom rests on the ground.

kedge

Sailing; General sailing

The smallest anchor a yacht carries, used for anchoring temporarily by a hawser or warp. To kedge is to anchor by the kedge, or to carry the kedge anchor out in a boat and warp ahead by it.

take

Sailing; General sailing

A jib is said to take when a vessel has been head to wind and the jib fills on one side or the other.

Sailing by the wind or close hauled, yet at the same time keeping all the sails full so that they do not shake through being too close to wind. Generally a vessel does better to windward when kept a" ...

steeve

Sailing; General sailing

The upward inclination or rake which a bowsprit has, or which the plank sheer has forward. The running bowsprit has usually a steeve corresponding with the sheer forward; a standing bowsprit has ...

craft

Sailing; General sailing

A vessel; also need in the plural, thus a number of craft, or a lot of craft, means a number of vessels.

cutter

Sailing; General sailing

A ship's boat heavier than a gig, and used in bad weather when the lighter boat might get swamped. Also -A vessel with one mast rigged with mainsail, jib and staysail.