General sailing

General sailing

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

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General sailing

sea way

Sailing; General sailing

Generally used in the sense of waves in an open sea, meaning a disturbed sea.

stream

Sailing; General sailing

The direction of the flood tide and ebb tide. The tides in the Channel are usually referred to as the eastern stream for the flood and western stream for the ebb.

marline spike

Sailing; General sailing

An iron implement tapering to a sharp point, used to open the strands of rope for splicing, to turn eye bolts, &c.

gaff topsail

Sailing; General sailing

The topsail set over a gaff sail, such as the topsail set over a cutter's mainsail. Sometimes the sail has a head yard, and sometimes not.

bear

Sailing; General sailing

The direction an object takes from a ship expressed in compass points or by points in the vessel; as in reference to another vessel she bears S.E. or on the port bow, or weather bow, port beam or ...

rig

Sailing; General sailing

The arrangement of a vessel's spars, rigging, and sails, as schooner rig, cutter rig, lugger rig. To rig is to fit the spars with rigging, &c. To rig out is to fit out.