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General sailing
Terms used to sail, navigate, and maintain a sail boat.
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raising iron
Sailing; General sailing
A sort of chisel for removing; the paying and caulking from seams.
oil on troubled waters
Sailing; General sailing
Placing an amount of oil on the water to smoo the surface and prevent wave crests from breaking. See Addendum.
come up
Sailing; General sailing
A vessel is said to come up when the wind frees her so that she can head nearer her course, or look, or point her course. In beating, a helmsman in reporting the progress made by the vessel may say, ...
breakers
Sailing; General sailing
Casks for containing water. Also the disturbed water over reefs, rocks, shoals.
mess
Sailing; General sailing
The number of officers or men who eat together. Also Disorder; entanglement.
catspaws
Sailing; General sailing
In calms, when the water is rippled here and there with passing airs of wind, it is said to be scratched by catspaws. A "catspaw" is also a bight doubled in a rope.
aboard
Sailing; General sailing
On or within the boat. Inside a ship or on the deck of a ship. "Come aboard, sir," is a sailor's way of reporting himself on board after leave of absence. To run or fall aboard a vessel is for one ...
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