Sailing Fundamental Glossary Terms
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| Toward the stern. | show 🗑
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| At right angles to the centerline of a boat. | show 🗑
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| show | aboard
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| show | Aft, after
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| show | Aloft
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| show | amidships
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| show | awash
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| A wire support from the mast to the stern of the boat. | show 🗑
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| To remove water from the boat. | show 🗑
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| show | ballast
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| With all sails down. | show 🗑
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| Thin wooden or plastic strips placed in pockets in the leech of a sail to help hold its form | show 🗑
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| The width of a boat at its widest point | show 🗑
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| The compass (magnetic) direction from one object to another. | show 🗑
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| show | beam wind
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| show | beat
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| show | belay
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| show | bend
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| show | bight
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| The very lowest part of a boat's interior; where water is most likely to collect. | show 🗑
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| show | blanket.
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| show | block
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| show | boat hook
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| show | bolt rope
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| The spar to which the foot of the sail is attached with lacing, slides or a groove. | show 🗑
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| A line to steady the boom when off the wind. | show 🗑
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| show | bow
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| A spar extending forward from the bow | show 🗑
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| Docking line leading roughly at right angles from the boat's sides. | show 🗑
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| Rope span with ends secured for the sheet block to ride on. | show 🗑
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| show | broach
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| show | buoy
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| On a run, having the wind coming slightly from the side on which the sails are trimmed. | show 🗑
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| show | can
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| show | capsize
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| To place a boat on her side so that work may be carried out on her underwater parts. | show 🗑
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| To break or tear loose. | show 🗑
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| To let go of a line when leaving the dock or mooring; to ease sheets. | show 🗑
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| show | catboat
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| A shaped blade attached to the underside of the hull to give the boat lateral resistance when it is sailing to windward. | show 🗑
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| show | chafe
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| Metal plates bolted to the side of a boat to which shrouds are attached to support the rigging | show 🗑
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| A device affixed to the deck and used as a guide for an anchor or mooring line. | show 🗑
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| To clear a lee shore. | show 🗑
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| The outer corner of a sail. | show 🗑
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| show | close-hauled
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| show | close-winded
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| The raised protection around a cockpit. | show 🗑
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| The space at a lower level than the deck in which the tiller or wheel is located;It may be center or aft. | show 🗑
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| show | cringle
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| Support for the boom when the sails are furled. | show 🗑
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| show | displacement
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| show | dock
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| show | downhaul
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| show | draft
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| The leeway or movement sideways of a boat. | show 🗑
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| show | dry sailing
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| show | ease
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| A fitting used to change the direction of a line, giving it a better angle from a sail or block to a winch or cleat. | show 🗑
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| The part of a tackle to which the power is applied in a hoisting. | show 🗑
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| show | fathom. One fathom is equal to six feet.
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| A windward course by which a craft can make her destination without having to tack. | show 🗑
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| show | float
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| show | foot
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| In the direction of the keel, from front to back. | show 🗑
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| show | forefoot
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| The most forward mast of a sailboat having two or more masts. | show 🗑
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| Foresail | show 🗑
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| show | fouled
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| show | frames
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| show | free
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| show | freeboard
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| Sailing sa close to the wind as possible with all the sails full. | show 🗑
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| To fold or roll a sail on a boom and then secure it with sail ties. | show 🗑
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| A pole extending from a mast to support the head of a sail. | show 🗑
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| A piece of rope or canvas used to secure a furled sail. | show 🗑
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| show | gear
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| An overlapping foresail. | show 🗑
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| A device used for suspending the compass so it remains level. | show 🗑
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| show | give-way vessel
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| show | gooseneck
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| show | grommet
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| Anchor, rode, etc., used to secure a boat to her mooring. | show 🗑
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| A fitting attached to the hull into which the rudder's pintles are inserted. | show 🗑
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| show | gunwale
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| A line or wire used to adjust and position the spinnaker pole. | show 🗑
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| A line used to haul sails up and down the mast. | show 🗑
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| show | hard alee
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| The top of a sail. | show 🗑
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| With the bow headed into the wind and the sails luffing. | show 🗑
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| show | headsail
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| A forward stay supporting the mast. | show 🗑
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| show | heave to
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| show | helm
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| show | hike
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| The vertical edge of a sail; to haul aloft. | show 🗑
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| The main body of a boat. | show 🗑
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| show | inboard
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| show | in irons
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| Also called in stays. | show 🗑
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| show | jib
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| show | jibe
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| A wire supporting the mast to which the luff of the jib is attached. | show 🗑
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| A stay on the upper forward paret of the mast | show 🗑
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| show | keel
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| A two-masted sailing vessel with a small after mast stepped forward of the rudderpost. | show 🗑
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| A nautical unit of speed: 6,076 feet or one nautical mile per hour. | show 🗑
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| show | lanyard
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| The twisting or a rope's strands. | show 🗑
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| A small space below deck, usually aft, where spare parts are kept or an outboard motor is mounted. | show 🗑
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| show | leech
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| Away from the wind. | show 🗑
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| A wire that encircles the deck to prevent crew members from falling overboard. | show 🗑
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| show | light sails
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| show | list
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| show | locker
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| show | lubber's line
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| show | luff
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| show | mainmast
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| show | mainsail
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| The line for controlling the main boom. | show 🗑
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| show | marconi
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| The shorter mast aft on a yawl or ketch. | show 🗑
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| A heavy anchor or weight permanently in position | show 🗑
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| show | mooring buoy
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| Abuoy with a conical top, found on the starboard hand on entering a channel and painted red. They are usually numbered evenly. | show 🗑
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| Away from the shore. | show 🗑
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| Sailing downwind or before the wind. | show 🗑
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| Sailing close-hauled. | show 🗑
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| show | outboard
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| The line that pulls the mainsail away from the mast and tightens the foot of the sail along the boom | show 🗑
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| show | painter
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| To turn the bow away from the wind | show 🗑
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| show | peak
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| show | pendant
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| show | pinch
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| A bolt of metal secured to the rudder and fitting into the grudgeon. It gives a swinging suppor to the rudder | show 🗑
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| show | point
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| The left side of a boat as one faces forward. | show 🗑
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| A course with the wind coming from the port and the sails trimmed on the starboard side. | show 🗑
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| show | quarter
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| The outer edge of the deck. | show 🗑
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| The angle of a boat's mast from the vertical | show 🗑
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| Sailing with a beam wind. | show 🗑
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| The command given to prepare for coming about. | show 🗑
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| show | rhumb line
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| 1) In general, a boat's upper works. 2) To set up the spars and standing and running rigging of a sailboat. | show 🗑
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| show | rigging
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| The curve of the edge of the sail. | show 🗑
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| show | rode
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| A flat wooden shape fitted on the sternpost by pintles and grudgeons. | show 🗑
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| show | run
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| show | sail ties
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| show | scull
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| show | seaway
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| show | secure
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| The direction of the leeway of a vessel or of tde or current. | show 🗑
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| A U-shaped piece of iron or steel with eyes in the ends, closed by a shackle pin. | show 🗑
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| To let out a reef and hoist the sail. | show 🗑
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| To reduce the area of a sail. | show 🗑
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| show | sheave
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| show | sheet
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| Vertical wires that hold the mast upright. | show 🗑
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| A continuatio of the keel aft taht protects the propeller and sometimes connects to the heel of the rudder. | show 🗑
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| A balloonlike sail used on a downwind course. | show 🗑
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| To join rope by tucking the strands together. | show 🗑
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| An athwartships support atht holds the shrouds away from the mast. | show 🗑
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| show | spring line
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| A brief storm that arrives suddenly. | show 🗑
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| show | stand-on vessel
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| show | standing rigging
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| show | starboard
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| A course with the wind coming from the starboard and the sails trimmed on the port side. | show 🗑
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| show | stay
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| show | staysail
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| show | stem
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| show | step
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| show | stern
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| show | stow
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| show | strake
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| show | swamp
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| 1) The forward lower corner of a sail where the luff and foot meet. 2) Any course on which the wind comes from either side of the boat. 3) To change course by passing into the wind. | show 🗑
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| An arrangement of ropes and blocks to give a mechanical advantage. | show 🗑
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| 1) A small boat employed to go back and forth to the shore from a larger boat. 2) Heeling easily when close-hauled. | show 🗑
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| An iron ring grooved on the outside for a rope grommet. | show 🗑
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| The athwartships seat in a boat. | show 🗑
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| Steering instrument that controls the rudder. | show 🗑
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| show | topping lift
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| show | topside
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| show | transom
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| show | traveler
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| show | trim
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| The delicate adjustment of a boat's rigging, sails, and hull to the proepr balance to assure the best sailing performance. | show 🗑
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| show | turnbuckle
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| A change of direction, as in the wind. | show 🗑
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| The waves from a boat. | show 🗑
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| An imaginary line around the hull at the surface of the water when the boat is on an even keel | show 🗑
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| The state of the atmosphere at a certian time and place. | show 🗑
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| Well equipped. | show 🗑
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| To bind the strands of a line's end with yam or cord. | show 🗑
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| A light spar extending from the mast and used to hold the jib out when sailig off the wind. | show 🗑
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| show | winch
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| show | windward
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| Running before the wind with the sails set on both sides. | show 🗑
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| show | working sails
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| show | yacht
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| show | yawl
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