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General sailing

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

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General sailing

midship

Sailing; General sailing

Approximately in the location equally distant from the bow and stern.

bow scarf

Sailing; General sailing

A method of joining two pieces of timber by letting each into the other one-half its own thickness; sometimes termed a butt scarf.

corky

Sailing; General sailing

Light, buoyant, easily set in motion by the waves ; floating with a high side out of the water.

cambered

Sailing; General sailing

When the keel of a vessel has its ends lower than its middle, thus. Opposed to rockered.

lanyards

Sailing; General sailing

Hopes rove through dead eyes, by which shrouds and stays are setup.

tuck

Sailing; General sailing

The form of the hollow in the quarter near the transom or stern-post.

shackle

Sailing; General sailing

A U-shaped crook with an eye in each end, through which a screw bolt is passed. Variously used, and are often preferred to hooks. (Fig. 93.) There is a shackle at every fifteen fathoms of cable, so ...

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