FMTC Nautical Terms
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| Abaft | show 🗑
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| Abaft the beam | show 🗑
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| Abandon ship | show 🗑
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| show | when the force of the wind lessens.
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| show | Directly off the side of the boat. At right angles to the fore and aft line
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| show | On or in any vessel or boat. On board
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| show | Side by side
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| show | Floating free without propulsion. Floating on the tide unsecured.
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| show | Towards, at, or near the stern.
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| show | The state of a vessel part which is touching the bottom. Held fast on the bottom.
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| show | Forward of, Advance. In the direction of the bows.
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| show | The general nautical hailing term to attract attention.
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| show | the letter "A" in the phonetic alphabet
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| Amidships | show 🗑
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| Anchor | show 🗑
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| show | The place where a boat, or boats, may anchor
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| show | The report from the bow that the anchor has been hove out of the ground, is off the bottom with its weight taken by the chain and rode.
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| Annual variation | show 🗑
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| show | Paint on the bottom of a boat that reduces marine growth.
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| Astern | show 🗑
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| show | A vessel riding by its anchor.
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| show | Aids To Navigation
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| Avast | show 🗑
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| Aweigh | show 🗑
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| show | The verbal acceptance of an order
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| show | The keep of a boat.
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| show | Used to prevent the ends of a rope from unlaying
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| Bail | show 🗑
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| Ballast | show 🗑
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| show | An area of the seabed that raised above the surrounding ground
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| Bar | show 🗑
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| show | Instrument that measures atmospheric pressure which determines changes of weather
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| show | Close openings and secure gear
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| Battery | show 🗑
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| Beached | show 🗑
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| Beacon | show 🗑
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| Beam | show 🗑
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| show | A sea rolling in at right angles to the vessels course.
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| show | A wind blowing in at right angles to the vessels course
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| Beamy | show 🗑
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| Bearing | show 🗑
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| Beaufort wind scale | show 🗑
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| Belay | show 🗑
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| Bell buoy | show 🗑
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| Below | show 🗑
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| show | Any place in a harbor allotted for the accommodation of a vessel.
Place a vessel in any allotted position.
A sleeping space or specified cabin in any vessel.
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| show | Lowest area inside the boat. Absolute nonsense
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| show | Canvas canopy
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| Binnacle | show 🗑
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| Blocks | show 🗑
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| show | Fans that remove dangerous vapors from the engine compartment
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| Boathook | show 🗑
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| Boom | show 🗑
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| show | Front of the boat
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| Bow Eye | show 🗑
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| show | Rope that attaches the front of the boat to a dock
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| Bowline | show 🗑
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| Bowsprit | show 🗑
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| Bravo | show 🗑
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| Breakwater | show 🗑
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| show | Cockpit (control station)
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| show | Broadside to the waves
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| Broad On/Off | show 🗑
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| Bulkhead | show 🗑
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| show | Floating navigation aids
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| Buoyancy | show 🗑
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| show | Flag identifying ownership or membership
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| show | Green cylindrical buoy
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| Capsize | show 🗑
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| show | North, South, East, West
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| show | Unfasten for departure
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| Catamaran | show 🗑
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| show | Any substance used for sealing between the seams of planking to make them watertight
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| show | Turbulence caused by a propeller blade spinning too fast and creative low-pressure bubbles
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| show | Angle conversion process from Compass to True Direction (+East)
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| show | True direction as opposed to Magnetic or Compass
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| show | Rub or wear away by constant use or friction
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| Chafing gear | show 🗑
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| show | Shop where nautical gear is sold
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| show | The deepest part of a passage through which the main current flows.
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| show | the letter "C" in the phonetic alphabet
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| Chart | show 🗑
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| show | Juncture of the side and the bottom of boat
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| Chop | show 🗑
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| show | Fitting with arms used to fasten lines
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| CO Monitor | show 🗑
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| Cocked hat | show 🗑
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| show | Small line used for many handy purposes, such as lacings, ornamental knots, quick tie down of small
items...etc.
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| show | Course Over Ground, the course in the water adjusted for current and wind
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| Combined Seas | show 🗑
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| Common whipping | show 🗑
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| show | Entrance between the deck and the cabin
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| show | Direction finding instrument using the Earth's magnetic field
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| Compass bearing | show 🗑
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| show | A graduated circle printed on a chart for use as a reference for showing true and magnetic north
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| Complain | show 🗑
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| show | A bearing that remains the same, even though the ship is moving; If of another ship, it indicates a collision course
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| Course | show 🗑
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| Cowl | show 🗑
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| show | Wave top
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| Cross bearings | show 🗑
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| show | A small cabin in the front of a boat
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| Current | show 🗑
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| Danforth | show 🗑
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| Davit | show 🗑
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| Davy Jones | show 🗑
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| Davy Jones locker | show 🗑
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| Dayboard | show 🗑
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| Dead calm | show 🗑
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| show | A contraction of deduced reckoning, being the estimated position of a ship based on time, speed, and distance calculations as opposed to plotting an observed position
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| show | The minimum speed possible to retain steerageway
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| Deck | show 🗑
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| Delta | show 🗑
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| Deviation | show 🗑
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| Dinghy | show 🗑
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| Direction | show 🗑
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| Displacement | show 🗑
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| Distress | show 🗑
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| show | An instrument with two movable points, used in chart work
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| Dock | show 🗑
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| show | Boat registered with the USCG instead of a state
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| Dodger | show 🗑
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| show | A clip used for closing watertight door or hatches
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| show | Depth of boat below waterline
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| show | Removal of accumulated runoff in waterways
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| Drift | show 🗑
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| show | Legal or illegal release of garbage into the water
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| show | Slacken a rope gradually.
Loosing any tight fitting
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| Easting | show 🗑
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| show | The letter "E" in the phonetic alphabet
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| Eddy | show 🗑
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| show | The distinguishing flag used to indicate nationality, usually flown at or near the stern
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| show | The shape of the forepart of a vessel
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| show | The position on a chart at which a vessel may be estimated to be at any time after allowances have been made for ides, winds, and courses laid off
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| show | Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beaconis a distress beacon used by mariners worldwide to alert Search and Rescue (SAR) forces that they are in distress.
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| show | An imaginary circle around the middle of the earth.
Zero degrees latitude
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| show | Upright. Without a list. Drawing a similar depth of water fore and aft.
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| show | Drop back. Reduce speed and get astern of another vessel
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| Fathom | show 🗑
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| Fenders | show 🗑
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| Fetch | show 🗑
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| show | to ascertain the position of the boat by the intersection of any two or more bearings taken at the same time
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| show | Backfire Flame control devices requires on gasoline engines
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| show | A pyrotechnic distress signal.
The curve of the freeboard from the bows, upward and outward, providing additional rising surface to oncoming waves.
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| Fleur De Lys | show 🗑
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| Flood Tide | show 🗑
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| show | Goods lost by shipwreck, or anything that has gone overboard and is later found floating at sea
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| Fluke | show 🗑
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| Flying bridge | show 🗑
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| show | The phantom sailing ship that traditionally haunts the seas off the Cape of Good Hope
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| Fog | show 🗑
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| Fog horn | show 🗑
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| Following Sea | show 🗑
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| Fore | show 🗑
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| Foul | show 🗑
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| show | The term used when the anchor rode is entangled around the flukes of an anchor
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| Founder | show 🗑
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| Fox-trot | show 🗑
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| Freeboard | show 🗑
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| show | when the wind increases in strength
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| From stem to stern | show 🗑
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| show | Weather boundaries
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| show | A strong wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane
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| show | Kitchen
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| show | Walkway between a boat and the dock
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| Gear | show 🗑
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| Generator | show 🗑
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| Ghosting | show 🗑
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| Gimbals | show 🗑
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| show | A vessel, whose duty it is to keep clear of another by taking necessary action
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| show | The letter "G" in the phonetic alphabet
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| GPS | show 🗑
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| show | Anchoring equipment
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| show | Juncture of the top and the side of boat
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| show | Call to another vessel
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| show | The mean level of the sea during springs or neaps; it is therefore a constant factor
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| show | Fire extinguishing material using in engine compartments
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| Halyard | show 🗑
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| show | An area of water partially enclosed
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| Hard chine | show 🗑
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| show | Opening in deck to the area below
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| show | Pull on a rope.
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| Hawespipe | show 🗑
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| show | An inlet from a coastline where ships may anchor and shelter
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| Head | show 🗑
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| show | Waves approaching from the front of the boat
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| Heading | show 🗑
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| show | A vessel is said to make headway when she advances, bows first, and begins to make way
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| show | Vertical motion of the boat due to waves
A command to lift or pull together
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| show | Stop, trim sails, or work the engine so as to keep the vessel almost stationery.
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| Heel | show 🗑
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| Helm | show 🗑
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| High tide | show 🗑
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| Hitch | show 🗑
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| Hold | show 🗑
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| show | Storage tank for sewage
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| Holidays | show 🗑
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| show | The anchor
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| Hotel | show 🗑
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| Hove to | show 🗑
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| Hull | show 🗑
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| show | Said of a vessel beyond the horizon, with only its masts in view
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| show | Inability to maintain sufficiently warm body temperature
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| India | show 🗑
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| show | Narrow waterway from the ocean to an inland bay
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| show | A line drawn to link areas of equal barometric pressure
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| show | Goods thrown overboard to lighten a vessel
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| show | Structure projecting out from the shore
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| Jib | show 🗑
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| show | Sailing maneuver with the stern into the wind
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| Jonah | show 🗑
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| Juliet | show 🗑
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| Jury rig | show 🗑
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| Keel | show 🗑
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| Killick | show 🗑
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| show | The letter "K" in the phonetic alphabet
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| Knot | show 🗑
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| show | Pitch and roll in heavy seas, show signs of working
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| Lading | show 🗑
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| Laid up | show 🗑
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| Landfall | show 🗑
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| Landlubber | show 🗑
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| show | A conspicuous spot onshore used as a navigational aid
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| Lanyard | show 🗑
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| show | System of red and green buoys that mark the edges of navigable channels
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| show | Degrees :Minutes:Seconds (0-90) North/South of the Equator
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| Lay to | show 🗑
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| show | The shore facing the lee side of a ship, being that on to which the wind would driver her if she were unable to make an offing
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| Let fly | show 🗑
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| show | the letter "L" in the phonetic alphabet
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| show | Rope
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| show | Continuous lean to one side
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| LOA | show 🗑
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| Log | show 🗑
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| show | Degrees:Minutes:Seconds (0-180) East/West of the Greenwich Meridian
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| Lookout | show 🗑
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| Mackerel sky | show 🗑
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| show | The bearing of an object in relation to the magnetic compass
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| show | A ships standard compass
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| Magnetic course | show 🗑
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| show | The northern center of the earths magnetic influence, as opposed to True North. It is approximately located at 70 degrees North and 97 degrees 30 minutes west in arctic Canada
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| Maiden voyage | show 🗑
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| Make fast | show 🗑
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| show | to advance through the water
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| Make way | show 🗑
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| show | The alarm called by anyone who sees someone fall over the side into the water.
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| Mare's tails | show 🗑
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| show | Docking area usually with services
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| show | the term embracing knotting, splicing, seizing, etc...; the art of shaping and working ropes.
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| show | Vertical post on sail boats
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| Mayday | show 🗑
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| Meridian | show 🗑
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| show | auto pilot
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| show | the letter "M" in the phonetic alphabet
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| show | Mean Lower Low Water, reference level used for depth measurements on nautical charts in the USA
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| show | Buoy used by boats to tie up
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| show | Nearly obsolete means of nautical communication using "dots" and "dashes"
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| show | one minute of latitude roughly equal to 1.15 statute miles
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| show | those with smaller range than spring tides; not as high, low, or rapid
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| show | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reports weather and tidal information
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| show | the letter "N" in the phonetic alphabet
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| show | A red, even-numbered, cylindrical shaped buoy marking the right side of a channel as you return to port. Cone top
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| show | A vessels position plotted on a chart from the observation of objects, as opposed to dead reckoning
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| Occulting light | show 🗑
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| On the beam | show 🗑
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| On the bow | show 🗑
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| show | On a bearing midway between the beam and the stern
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| Oscar | show 🗑
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| Out of trim | show 🗑
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| Outboard | show 🗑
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| Overboard | show 🗑
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| Overtaking vessel | show 🗑
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| show | The rope at the bow of a small boat for making it fast.
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| Papa | show 🗑
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| Passage | show 🗑
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| Pay Out | show 🗑
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| Pennant | show 🗑
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| show | personal flotation device (life jacket)
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| show | system used to identify letters in verbal communications
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| show | Structure extending into the water for tying a vessel to
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| Piling | show 🗑
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| Pilot | show 🗑
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| show | Used by pilots for meeting ships
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| show | The wheel house
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| show | Navigating a boat by determining position and directing movement
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| show | The depression of the bows plunging into a trough in the sea
The theoretical distance a propeller travels in one revolution.
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| Pitch pole | show 🗑
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| Planing | show 🗑
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| show | Power boat that eliminates the bow wake
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| Plastic boat | show 🗑
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| show | There are 32 points of a compass consisting of 4 cardinals (N,S,E,W), 4 half cardinals (NE,SE,SW,NW), 8 intermediates (NNE,ENE,ESE,SSE,SSW,WSW,WNW,NNW) and 16 by points
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| Pontoon | show 🗑
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| show | The raised deck on the after part of a ship
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| Pooped | show 🗑
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| show | Left side of a vessel.
A seaport, that part of any place that is made available for shipping
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| Port Tack | show 🗑
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| Porthole | show 🗑
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| show | The god of the sea in Greek mythology
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| Positive buoyancy | show 🗑
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| Pram | show 🗑
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| show | Typical direction of the wind at a locale
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| show | the meridian which passes through greenwich, and from which longitude east or west is reckoned
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| show | An area marked on a chart, where anchoring, trawling, or fishing may be forbidden by authority
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| Prolonged blast | show 🗑
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| show | Sideways force created by a spinning propeller
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| show | Engine that runs by compressed combustion
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| Propulsion - Gasoline | show 🗑
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| show | An elevated tubular metal guardrail set up at the bow or stern; typically extending from the bow
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| show | A seining net which can be closed like a purse
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| Quarter | show 🗑
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| Quartering | show 🗑
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| Quartering wind | show 🗑
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| Quay | show 🗑
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| Quebec | show 🗑
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| Race | show 🗑
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| Radar | show 🗑
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| Rake | show 🗑
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| show | Distance away of an object
The difference between the depth of water at high and low tides
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| Reach | show 🗑
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| show | RED buoys on the RIGHT when RETURNING from the sea
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| show | to reduce sail area by folding, rolling, or tying up part of the sails.
A chain of rocks lying submerged near the surface
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| show | A period during which repairs, reconstruction, and replacements are effected
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| show | A program of sailing and rowing races arranged by an authority or club
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| show | Those compartment above water level that may effectively be made watertight
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| show | Sailing ropes and hardware
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| show | A running tide, rising as it flows, and breaking in ripples
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| show | Anchor rope and/or chain
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| Roll | show 🗑
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| Romeo | show 🗑
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| Rudder | show 🗑
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| Rules of the Road | show 🗑
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| show | Red, Green, and White lights used by boats at night
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| show | Anchoring length to depth ratio
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| show | Propeller.
A type of fastener, usually metal similar to a bolt.
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| show | Holes cut in bulwarks for water to escape overboard from decks
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| Scuttle | show 🗑
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| Sea anchor | show 🗑
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| show | Possessed by those who have the ability to walk about on a vessel pitching and tossing about in heavy seas
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| Sea room | show 🗑
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| Sea State | show 🗑
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| show | Hole in hull with a valve to regulate the water flow
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| Set | show 🗑
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| Sextant | show 🗑
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| Shackle | show 🗑
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| show | Curve of the deck as viewed from the side
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| show | Rope that controls a sail's horizontal movement
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| Ship | show 🗑
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| show | Place oars in crutches or oarlocks ready to use
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| Shoal | show 🗑
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| show | Electrical power (AC) via cables provided at the marina as opposed to the engines or a generator
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| show | Wires that run to the side of the boat to support the sail mast
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| show | The red and green navigation lights required by the Rules of the Road, fixed to show from right ahead to two points abaft the beam
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| show | the letter "S" in the phonetic alphabet
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| Slack Water | show 🗑
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| Sling | show 🗑
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| show | Berth with docks on 3 sides
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| Small Craft Advisory | show 🗑
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| Snub | show 🗑
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| SOG | show 🗑
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| show | A depth reading
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| show | Poles used in sail rigging
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| show | Spray whipped off and blown from the crests of waves
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| Splice | show 🗑
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| Spring Line | show 🗑
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| Spring Tide | show 🗑
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| Squall | show 🗑
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| show | A fixed upright pillar support between decks or for guardrails, awnings, etc
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| show | that vessel which maintains course and speed
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| Starboard | show 🗑
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| Starboard Tack | show 🗑
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| Stateroom | show 🗑
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| Stays | show 🗑
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| Steerageway | show 🗑
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| show | The timber at the bow of a ship into which the planks are butted.
The points at which both sides of the bow meet
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| show | Back of boat
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| show | Rope that attaches the back of the boat to a dock
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| show | Food and supplies
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| show | Rising sea preceding a storm
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| show | Damaged by anything breaking through into a ship
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| show | TO put in its proper place
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| Superstructure | show 🗑
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| show | Waves coming into the boat
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| Sway | show 🗑
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| show | Long waves from a distance that do not crest
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| Swing | show 🗑
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| Swing a compass | show 🗑
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| show | To maneuver toward the wind by continually altering course back and forth so as to take the wind at an angle rather than dead on
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| show | Assemblage of ropes and blocks
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| Taff rail | show 🗑
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| Tango | show 🗑
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| show | Accommodate larger outboards.
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| show | Water Depth variations created by the gravitational forces of the Moon and the Sun
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| show | The upper part of the hull above the waterline
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| Trade winds | show 🗑
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| show | Vertical partition at the back of the boat
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| show | The difference in draft between forward and aft.
The set of a vessel on the water.
The set of a sail used for best advantage
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| show | Adjustable planes at the stern that allow the pilot to adjust the trim of the boat
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| Trip Line | show 🗑
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| Trough | show 🗑
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| show | To turn over completely
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| show | Angle conversion process from True to compass direction (+ West)
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| Twin screw | show 🗑
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| Underway | show 🗑
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| show | the letter "U" in the phonetic alphabet
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| show | United States Coast Guard
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| Variation | show 🗑
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| Veer | show 🗑
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| Ventilation | show 🗑
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| VHF | show 🗑
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| show | the letter "V" in the phonetic alphabet
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| Voyage | show 🗑
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| Wake | show 🗑
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| show | The turbulent water left behind by any vessel passing through the water
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| show | The top edge of the bottom color paint where it meets the topside color.
The line to where water rises
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| Wave Height | show 🗑
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| show | Position saved in a GPS receiver
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| show | to raise an anchor or depart
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| show | Structure parallel to the shore
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| Whiskey | show 🗑
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| show | Waves created locally by the wind
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| Windlass | show 🗑
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| show | Upwind side
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| X-ray | show 🗑
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| show | Boat used for recreation with luxury features
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| Yankee | show 🗑
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| show | Horizontal motion from side-to-side
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| Zinc Anodes | show 🗑
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| Zulu | show 🗑
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| show | Sea sickness
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| ABYC | show 🗑
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| show | abbreviation for air conditioner
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| AC | show 🗑
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| show | further aft; sternwards
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| show | a light that can be seen by another vessel from a 360 degree view, visible from at least 2 miles away
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| show | A device that measures wind speed.
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| Appendage | show 🗑
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| Athwartship | show 🗑
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| show | Equipment used on ships and boats to maintain a chosen course without constant human action
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| show | A bend or curve in the shore of the sea or river.
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| Bitter End | show 🗑
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| Boot top | show 🗑
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| Catalyst | show 🗑
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| show | Normally used to describe a twin hull power boat. Also a type of small sailing vessel
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| show | to form cavities or bubbles, usually in reference to a propeller or impeller
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| show | An imaginary line down the middle of the boat from the center of the bow to the center of the stern
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| show | A series of usually welded metal links or rings connected to or fitted into one another and used for various purposes.
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| show | Fitting through which anchor or mooring lined are led
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| show | Boat Size Classifications & Requirements
Class A. Boats measuring less than 16 feet.
Class 1. Boats measuring more than 16 feet but less than 26 feet.
Class 2. Boats measuring more than 26 feet but less than 40 feet.
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| Carbon Monoxide (CO) | show 🗑
|
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| show | Commonly, in a boat, this refers to the outside working or seating area below the deck surface. Not below deck
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| show | Navigation line from point a to point b. Also a line tied to a vessel being lifted by a crane to help prevent unwanted movement.
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|
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| Control Signals | show 🗑
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| show | A cover for an outboard motor. Also includes the lower motor cover.
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|
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| Crew | show 🗑
|
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| Direct Current (DC) | show 🗑
|
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| show | A device that measures the depth of the water; as in
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|
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| show | the removal of equipment or rigging. our customary derig of cables.
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| Electric Hazards | show 🗑
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| show | Being aware of your surroundings, and the affect your actions have on them
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| show | a reinforced plastic material composed of glass fibers embedded in a resin matrix.
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| show | separates starboard from port
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| show | Toward the bow; as in: Go forward to throw the bow line.
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| Fouled Bottom | show 🗑
|
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| show | The smooth, hard surface layer of polyester resin in a fiberglass structure.
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| GMT | show 🗑
|
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| Grab rail | show 🗑
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| Gust | show 🗑
|
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| show | This is when you turn the steering wheel all the way over to the port or starboard.
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|
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| Helmsman | show 🗑
|
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| show | Hull Identification Number
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|
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| Hull Speed | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Intracoastal Waterway
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|
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| show | The rotating part of a centrifugal pump, compressor, or other machine designed to move a fluid by rotation.
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|
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| show | An inboard motor is a marine propulsion system for boats. As an inboard motor is an engine enclosed within the hull of the boat, usually connected to a propulsion screw by a driveshaft.
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| Kilometer | show 🗑
|
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| show | A small compartment below deck or chest used for storage
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|
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| show | A lubber line is a fixed line on a compass pointing towards the front of the boat and corresponding to the craft's centerline
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|
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| Midships | show 🗑
|
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| show | Type of knot, has the name because it looks like a bunched fist. To serve as a weight making it easier to throw the line.
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|
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| Monohull | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A boat is secured to a mooring by lines to prevent free movement of the boat on the water.
🗑
|
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| show | A boat is moored by attaching it by cable or rope to the shore or to an anchor.
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|
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| Multihull | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A Marine Sanitation Device, commonly known as an “MSD” is a piece of machinery or a mechanical system that is dedicated to treat, process, and/or store raw, untreated sewage that can accumulate onboard water vessels.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A set of lights shown by a ship or aircraft at night to indicate its position and orientation, especially with respect to other vessels.
🗑
|
||||
| show | To give direction to vessels in order to set a standard that everyone could follow in order to prevent collisions of two or more vessels.
🗑
|
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| Negative Buoyancy | show 🗑
|
||||
| Offshore | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The part of an inboard/outboard motor that is outside the hull providing steering and propulsion.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The base or support (usually used for seats on a boat) where a column is mounted.
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|
||||
| Plug | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A person engaged and qualified in a profession
🗑
|
||||
| Propeller | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | To empty your boats onboard sewage and waste tanks. Pump out stations are available at most marinas.
🗑
|
||||
| PWC | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The act of letting current or flow of the water carry your watercraft.
🗑
|
||||
| Reciprocal | show 🗑
|
||||
| Rig | show 🗑
|
||||
| Right of Way | show 🗑
|
||||
| Rope | show 🗑
|
||||
| RPM | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A metal/rubber rail to protect against rubbing on the docks to avoid damage to the boat.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Code used by sailors on the water to communicate over radio waves and by other means. Also unwritten rules to follow while on the water.
🗑
|
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| Sea Conditions | show 🗑
|
||||
| Secure | show 🗑
|
||||
| Self Bailers | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A one way valves that allow water to exit the boat but not enter.
🗑
|
||||
| show | Reliance on one's own powers and resources rather than those of others.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The act of being able to help or save yourself by being prepared and responsive in dangerous situations.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A pin that is installed between the propeller and the propeller shaft designed to break in case of impact to protect the prop and drive components.
🗑
|
||||
| Skeg | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The operator of the vessel
🗑
|
||||
| Statute Mile | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | boat's steering wheel is part of the helm that connects to a mechanical, electric, or hydraulic system to assist in turning the boat. consist of a wheel, helm, steering cable, and cable connections, all linking the wheel to the engine.
🗑
|
||||
| show | AN INBOARD ENGINE CONNECTED TO AN OUTBOARD DRIVE UNIT AT THE REAR OF A POWERBOAT
🗑
|
||||
| show | Are longitudinal ridges, Their purpose is usually to deflect spray, lift the hull, and sometimes to stiffen the hull.
🗑
|
||||
| show | provide a watertight seal for the propeller shaft.
🗑
|
||||
| show | An inspection of your boat for damage and condition.
🗑
|
||||
| show | is a person who conducts inspections, surveys or examinations of marine vessels to assess, monitor and report on their condition and the products on them, as well as inspects damage caused to both vessels
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|
||||
| Swim Platform | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tachometer | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tensile Strength | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | a metal ring with a concave groove on the outside, used to line the outside of a ring of rope forming an eye.
🗑
|
||||
| Thru Hull | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | THE WATER CURRENT CAUSED BY THE TIDES
🗑
|
||||
| Tiller | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Stand while keeping a hand on the tiller,
🗑
|
||||
| Toe rail | show 🗑
|
||||
| Transducer | show 🗑
|
||||
| Tunnel Hull | show 🗑
|
||||
| Unrig | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | a propulsion system for boats that consists of two drive shafts, a gearbox, and a propeller.
🗑
|
||||
| V Hull | show 🗑
|
||||
| Water Ballast | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A DRIVER ROTATES IN ORDER TO STEER A VEHICLE, ALSO ANOTHER NAME FOR A PROPELLER
🗑
|
||||
| show | a hauling or lifting device consisting of a rope,
cable, or chain winding around a horizontal rotating drum, turned by a crank or by motor or other power source; a windlass.
🗑
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Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
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If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
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