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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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General sailing
weather boards
Sailing; General sailing
Pieces of boards fitted over open ports to direct water or rain off.
heel
Sailing; General sailing
The lower after end of anything, as heel of the keel, heel of the mast (the fore part of the lower end of a mast is called the toe), heel of a yard, heel of the bowsprit. The amount of list a vessel ...
freeboard
Sailing; General sailing
The distance between the deck and the waterline. Most often it will vary along the length of the boat.
start
Sailing; General sailing
To move, as to slacken a sheet or tack. To start a butt is to cause a plank to start from its fastenings at its butt or end.
under bowing the sea
Sailing; General sailing
When a vessel is close hauled sailing in a cross sea, and gets the worst of it on the lee bow.
barque
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.
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.
