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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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General sailing
lutings
Sailing; General sailing
Stoppings of white lead, putty, tar, varnish, for seams and joins in tanks; sometimes used with a strip of canvas as a kind of caulking.
flat aback
Sailing; General sailing
In square rigged ships when all the yards are trimmed across the ship, with the wind ahead so as to produce sternway.
rudder trunk
Sailing; General sailing
The trunk fitted in the counter to receive the rudder post into which the tiller is fitted.
lizard
Sailing; General sailing
A piece of rope with a thimble eye spliced in one end, used in setting square sails; sometimes the lizard is of two or more parts with a thimble in each, the whole being spliced into one tail.
heart thimble
Sailing; General sailing
A thimble shaped like a heart put in the eye splices of ropes. These are usually made solid for rigging screws.
make stern way
Sailing; General sailing
To drive astern as a vessel sometimes will in tacking by getting in irons or through the head sails being thrown aback.
boat hook
Sailing; General sailing
A short shaft with a fitting at one end shaped to facilitate use in putting a line over a piling, recovering an object dropped overboard, or in pushing or fending off. A wood pole with a metal hook ...
