General sailing

General sailing

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

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Sailing; General sailing

To deprive a vessel of wind, as by one vessel passing to windward of another.

stop cracks in a mast

Sailing; General sailing

When the spar is quite dry, run in marine glue; when the glue is hard, scrape out some of it, and stop with putty, coloured to imitate the colour of the wood.

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Sailing; General sailing

A tackle; any contrivance for increasing mechanical power.

A whistle consisting of a hollow ball and a tube leading to a hole in it. By varying the sounds the men are "piped" to their work just the same as soldiers are ordered by the sound of a bugle. The ...