Nautical

Nautical

of or relating to boats, sailing, maritime topics

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Lateral system

Transportation; Nautical

A system of aids to navigation in which characteristics of buoys and beacons indicate the sides of the channel or route relative to a conventional direction of buoyage (usually upstream).

Lay

Transportation; Nautical

To come and go, used in giving orders to the crew, such as "lay forward" or "lay aloft". To direct the course of vessel. Also, to twist the strands of a rope together.

Lazarette

Transportation; Nautical

Small stowage locker at the aft end of a boat.

League

Transportation; Nautical

A unit of length, normally equal to three nautical miles.

The aft or trailing edge of a fore-and-aft sail; the leeward edge of a spinnaker; a vertical edge of a square sail. The leech is susceptible to twist, which is controlled by the boom vang, mainsheet ...