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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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Sailing; General sailing
The outward curved part of the knee at the upper fore part of the stem, called volute.
girt
Sailing; General sailing
To moor a vessel so that she cannot swing by tide or wind. To draw a sail into puckers; to divide the belly of a sail into bags as by a rope.
large
Sailing; General sailing
With the wind abeam or abaft the beam. "She is sailing along large" means that the ship has the wind abeam or between the beam and the quarter.
fastenings
Sailing; General sailing
The bolts, nails, by which the framing and planking of a vessel are held together.
salt and fresh water
Sailing; General sailing
A cubic foot of salt water weighs 64lb.; a ton contains 34 cubic feet. A cubic foot of fresh water weighs 62.4lb.; a ton contains 36 cubic feet: hence salt water bulk for bulk will sustain a greater ...
poop
Sailing; General sailing
The raised part of a vessel at her extreme after end. To be pooped is when running before the wind a sea breaks in over the stern.
spiling
Sailing; General sailing
Marking on a bar of wood the distances that a curved line (say that of a frame) is from a straight line.
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