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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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dead weight
Sailing; General sailing
Concentrated weight in a vessel's pattern, such as a heavy cargo of ore or ballast.
beacon
Sailing; General sailing
A stake, boom, or post put on a sandbank or shoal as a warning for vessels.
strand
Sailing; General sailing
Yarns twisted together and they then make the parts or strands of a rope.
reef cringles
Sailing; General sailing
The large cringles in the leeches of sails through which the reef pendants are rove and tacks or sheets hooked.
burton
Sailing; General sailing
A tackle composed of two single blocks; a double Spanish burton consists of two single and one double block.
meet her
Sailing; General sailing
When a vessel begins to fly to or run off the wind, to stop her doing so by the helm. Generally to check a vessel's tendency to yaw by using the helm.
stern sheets
Sailing; General sailing
The seat in the aft end of a boat. Sometimes the three-cornered bottom board aft in a boat is termed the stern sheet. This board in' a yachts gig, in the bow or aft, is usually a wood grating. In ...