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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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General sailing
fiddle head
Sailing; General sailing
The curved part of the knee at the upper fore part of the stem in schooners, turned upwards aft like the curly part of a fiddle head. A scroll head turns downwards.
garnet
Sailing; General sailing
A kind of tackle used for hoisting things out of the hold of vessels; also used for clewing up square sails.
tie
Sailing; General sailing
A runner to which a tackle is hooked, used for hoisting lug-sails and squaresails.
roaring forties
Sailing; General sailing
This term originated with the tearing winds which blow in the South Atlantic between lat. 30û and 50 S.
stops
Sailing; General sailing
Yarns or short pieces of rope by which sails are secured when rolled up or stowed. Also the short lines by which sails are tied to yards when they are not laced.
rakish
Sailing; General sailing
A vessel that has a look of speed about her, probably originating from the fast schooners of former days that had raking masts.
overtake
Sailing; General sailing
To approach a vessel that is sailing ahead. The "rule of the road" is that an overtaking vessel must keep clear of the vessel she overtakes; the vessel so overtaken must, however, keep her course ...
