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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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General sailing
momentum
Sailing; General sailing
A force represented by a weight and the velocity with which it is moved.
gripe
Sailing; General sailing
A vessel is said to gripe when she has a tendency to fly up in the wind, and requires weather helm to check or "pay off" the tendency.
ketch
Sailing; General sailing
A two-masted vessel, something like a yawl, but with the mizen stepped ahead of the stern post, and not abaft it as a yawl has it.
break off
Sailing; General sailing
In close-hauled sailing, when the wind comes more from ahead so as to cause the vessel's head to break to leeward of the course she had been sailing. Not to be confused with "fall off," which means ...
scupper
Sailing; General sailing
Drain in cockpit, bulwarks, caming, or toe-rail allowing water to drain out and overboard.
shoe
Sailing; General sailing
Iron plates rivetted to the ends of wire rigging to receive shackle bolts.
clew
Sailing; General sailing
For a triangular sail, the aftmost cornet.The lower corners of a square sail; in fore-and-aft sails only the lower after corner is called the clew.
