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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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freeboard
Sailing; General sailing
The distance between the deck and the waterline. Most often it will vary along the length of the boat.
even keel
Sailing; General sailing
Said of a vessel when she is not heeled either to port or starboard, also when her keel is horizontal, that is when she is so trimmed that her draught forward is the same as aft.
lay
Sailing; General sailing
Used by sailors instead of the neuter verb "to lie" as "lay to" for lie to, "lay her course" for lie her course, "lay up" for lie up, &c. or "she lays S.W." for lies S.W. This use of the active verb ...
entrance
Sailing; General sailing
The fore part of a vessel, the bow. A good entrance into the water means a long well-formed bow.
grapnel
Sailing; General sailing
A grappling iron with four claws used to moor small boats by or to drag the bed of the sea.
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.
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