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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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General sailing
scant
Sailing; General sailing
When the wind is very bare; when the wind comes so that a vessel will barely lie her course.
fay
Sailing; General sailing
To join pieces of timber together very closely Plank is said to fay the timbers when it fits closely to it.
gangway
Sailing; General sailing
The area of a ship's side where people board and disembark. The opening in the bulwarks, or side, through which persons enter or leave a vessel. Used generally as a passage, or thoroughfare of any ...
in the wind
Sailing; General sailing
When sailing close hauled, if a vessel comes to nearly head to wind she is said to be "all in the wind."
toss the oars
Sailing; General sailing
To throw them out of the rowlocks and rest them perpendicularly, blades uppermost, on reaching a destination. May be given as a command to each bank of rowers independently or given to both banks at ...
dolphin striker
Sailing; General sailing
The perpendicular spar under the bowsprit end by which more spread is given to the stay of the jib-boom. In a modern yacht the dolphin striker is a steel strut or spreader fitting into a socket in ...
horizontal lines
Sailing; General sailing
The curved lines on the Half breadth Plan which show the water lines, the plane of each section being parallel to the horizon.
