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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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General sailing
wall sided
Sailing; General sailing
Up and down sides of a vessel that neither tumble home nor flare out.
alee
Sailing; General sailing
Away from the direction of the wind. Opposite of windward. The helm is a-lee when it is put down to leeward. Hard a-lee means that the helm must be put as far to leeward as it can be got.
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 ...
puff
Sailing; General sailing
A gust of wind. A free puff is when it enables a vessel to luff; a foul puff when it breaks her off.
bark
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.
gaff
Sailing; General sailing
A free swinging spar attached to the top edge of a sailto which the head of a fore-and-aft sail is bent.
clipper
Sailing; General sailing
A fine ship ; first applied to the sharp bowed ships that sailed out of Baltimore, U.S.
