General sailing

General sailing

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

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helm

Sailing; General sailing

The apparatus for steering a vessel, usually applied only to the tiller. The word is derived from Saxon helma or healma, a rudder; German helm, a handle and a rudder.

lashing

Sailing; General sailing

A lacing or rope to bind two spars together, or sails to a spar.

hard up

Sailing; General sailing

The tiller as far to windward as it can be got for bearing away.

Not to be confounded with the modern gunter lug which is really a cross between a high-peaked gaff sail and a Clyde lug. The slider has jaws on the heel of the yard or gaff, which is usually curved. ...

yawl

Sailing; General sailing

Two mast rig with taller mast forward as a ketch but with the rudder post aft of the mizzen mast.

knot

Sailing; General sailing

A measure of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour. A division of the old log line bearing the same relation to a nautical mile as the period of the sand glass did to an hour. The nautical mile ...