{"id":25,"date":"2021-08-11T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/tinkerbelle\/?post_type=back-matter&p=25"},"modified":"2021-12-02T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:01:15","slug":"glossary","status":"publish","type":"back-matter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/tinkerbelle\/back-matter\/glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Glossary"},"content":{"raw":"ABAFT<\/span>- <\/span>Astern of; behind; at the rear of; toward the stern.<\/span>\r\n\r\nABEAM<\/span>- <\/span>At right angles to the keel.<\/span>\r\n\r\nADRIFT<\/span>- <\/span>Loose from moorings.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAFT<\/span>- <\/span>Toward or near the stern.<\/span>\r\n\r\nASTERN<\/span>- <\/span>To the rear or behind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBACK<\/span>- <\/span>To back a sail is to pull it to the <\/span>windward side of the vessel. <\/span>The <\/span>wind is said <\/span>to back when its direction shifts in a counterclockwise direction; <\/span>it is the opposite of veer.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBACKWIND<\/span>- <\/span>When the wind hits the ordinarily leeward side of a sail.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBATTEN DOWN<\/span>- <\/span>To secure or to make watertight.<\/span>\r\n\r\nB<\/span>EAM<\/span>- <\/span>The point of a vessel's greatest breadth.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBEAM ENDS<\/span>- <\/span>A boat is said to be on its beam ends when it is knocked over <\/span>onto its side.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBEAT<\/span>- <\/span>To sail to windward; tack.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBEND<\/span>- <\/span>To bend on sails is to attach them to the vessel, before hoisting, so <\/span>they are ready f<\/span>or use.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBILGE<\/span>- <\/span>The inside of a vessel near the keel where water may collect.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBLOCK<\/span>- <\/span>A pulley; a frame enclosing one or more sheaves or rollers over <\/span>which lines are run.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBOOM<\/span>- <\/span>A spar at the foot of a fore<\/span>-<\/span>and<\/span>-<\/span>aft sail.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBOOM CRUTCH (OR CRADLE OR CROTCH)<\/span>- <\/span>A prop <\/span>that lifts the <\/span>boom off the deck and holds it secure when it is not in use.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBOW<\/span>- <\/span>Forward part of a boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBROACH<\/span>- <\/span>A vessel broaches when it swings broadside to the wind and waves when running free.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBULKHEAD<\/span>- <\/span>A partition or wall below decks.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBUOY<\/span>- <\/span>A floating obj<\/span>ect anchored to show position.<\/span>\r\n\r\nCENTERBOARD<\/span>- <\/span>A pivoted board<\/span>-<\/span>like device that can be lowered to <\/span>provide lateral resistance to the water in shoal draft vessels.<\/span>\r\n\r\nCLEW<\/span>- <\/span>Aftermost corner of a sail.<\/span>\r\n\r\nCOAMING<\/span>-<\/span>Raised protection around a cockpit.<\/span>\r\n\r\nCOCKPIT<\/span>- <\/span>Space within <\/span>the coaming where the helmsman sits. <\/span>A self<\/span>-<\/span>bailing cockpit has drains to allow water to run out of it.<\/span>\r\n\r\nCOME ABOUT<\/span>- <\/span>To bring the boat from one tack to the other when sailing <\/span>into the wind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDAGGERBOARD<\/span>-<\/span>KEEL<\/span>- <\/span>Heavy, board<\/span>-<\/span>like surface used to provide lateral <\/span>resistance to the water, raised and lowered vertically.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDEAD RECKONING<\/span>- <\/span>Determining a vessel's position by the course sailed <\/span>and the distance covered.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDINGHY<\/span>- <\/span>A small rowboat that sometimes is rigged with a sail. <\/span>Also called <\/span>tender or dink.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDOUSE<\/span>- <\/span>To take in <\/span>or lower a sail.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDRIFT<\/span>- <\/span>The leeway of a boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDROGUE<\/span>- <\/span>A canvas bucket or conical<\/span>-<\/span>shaped device used to provide <\/span>resistance in the water and slow a vessel or keep its bow pointed into the <\/span>wind and waves.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDYE MARKER<\/span>- <\/span>Capsule of dye used to color a patch of wate<\/span>r to help <\/span>searchers find a boat or person.<\/span>\r\n\r\nEASE<\/span>- <\/span>To let out the sheet so as to relieve the pressure on the sail and <\/span>possibly spill some wind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nENSIGN<\/span>- <\/span>A national flag flow on a boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFEND<\/span>- <\/span>To push off.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFOOT WELL<\/span>- <\/span>Central area of cockpit designed to accommodate <\/span>helmsman's feet.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFORE<\/span>- <\/span>In or toward the bow of a boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFORE<\/span>-<\/span>AND<\/span>-<\/span>AFT<\/span>- <\/span>Parallel to the keel.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFORESTAY<\/span>- <\/span>Wire used to support mast, leading to the bow.<\/span>\r\n\r\nFREEBOARD<\/span>- <\/span>The distance from the top of the hull to the water.<\/span>\r\n\r\nGAM<\/span>- <\/span>Visiting or conversation carried on between p<\/span>ersons from separate <\/span>ships at sea.<\/span>\r\n\r\nGENOA<\/span>- <\/span>Large, overlapping jib. <\/span>Also called a genny.<\/span>\r\n\r\nGHOST<\/span>-<\/span>To make headway when there is no apparent wind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nGRAB RAIL<\/span>- <\/span>Railing, usually on cabin top, used as handhold.<\/span>\r\n\r\nGREENWICH MEAN TIME<\/span>- <\/span>Time as measured at the meridian of <\/span>Greenwich, England.<\/span>\r\n\r\nGUDGEON<\/span>- <\/span>An eye fitting into which the rudder's pintles are inserted.<\/span>\r\n\r\nGUNKHOLING<\/span>- <\/span>Shallow<\/span>-<\/span>water sailing and anchoring in out<\/span>-<\/span>of<\/span>-<\/span>the<\/span>-<\/span>way <\/span>places.<\/span>\r\n\r\nHALYARD<\/span>-<\/span>A line used to hoist a sail. <\/span>Also spelled halliard.<\/span>\r\n\r\nHATCH<\/span>- <\/span>An opening in a deck with a <\/span>cover.<\/span>\r\n\r\nHEAD<\/span>- <\/span>The upper corner of a sail. <\/span>Also, a boat's toilet.<\/span>\r\n\r\nHEAVE TO<\/span>- <\/span>To stop a vessel's progress by putting out a sea anchor or <\/span>drogue, or hauling a headsail to windward.<\/span>\r\n\r\nHEAVING LINE<\/span>- <\/span>Line with a weighted end to facilitate throwing it ashore <\/span>or to ano<\/span>ther vessel.<\/span>\r\n\r\nHEEL<\/span>- <\/span>The tilt, tip, listing or laying<\/span>-<\/span>over of a boat, usually due to the force of the wind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nHELM<\/span>- <\/span>The tiller by which the rudder is controlled.<\/span>\r\n\r\nHULL<\/span>- <\/span>The main body of a boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIN IRONS<\/span>- <\/span>A boat in the wind's eye which, having lost all headway, will <\/span>not <\/span>go off on either tack.<\/span>\r\n\r\nJIB<\/span>- <\/span>A triangular sail set forward of the mast.<\/span>\r\n\r\nJIBE<\/span>- <\/span>When running, to bring the wind on the other quarter so that the <\/span>boom swings over. <\/span>Also spelled gybe.<\/span>\r\n\r\nJIB SHEET<\/span>- <\/span>The line leading from the lower aft end of the jib to the cockp<\/span>it <\/span>and by which the set of the jib is controlled.<\/span>\r\n\r\nJIGGER<\/span>- <\/span>Another name for the mizzen or aft sail on a ketch or yawl. <\/span>Such a <\/span>sail was improvised on <\/span>Tinkerbelle <\/em>to help her ride better to a sea anchor.<\/span>\r\n\r\nKEEL<\/span>- <\/span>The backbone of a boat running fore<\/span>-<\/span>and<\/span>-<\/span>aft.<\/span>\r\n\r\nKNOT<\/span>- <\/span>Measure of distance; <\/span>one nautical mile, 6,080 feet. <\/span>Measure of <\/span>speed: <\/span>one nautical mile per hour.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLAPSTRAKE<\/span>- <\/span>Overlapping plank of a boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLAZARETTE<\/span>- <\/span>A stowage compartment in the stern.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLEE SHORE<\/span>- <\/span>A shore on the side of the boat away from the wind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLEE SIDE<\/span>- <\/span>The side of the boat away from the wind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLEEWARD<\/span>- <\/span>In the direction away from the wind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLIFELINE<\/span>- <\/span>Line by which person is attached to boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nLINE<\/span>- <\/span>Nautical term for rope used for riggings, anchoring, tying up, etc.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMAINSAIL OR MAINS'L<\/span>- <\/span>The large sail set abaft <\/span>the mast.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMAINSHEET<\/span>- <\/span>The line that controls the mainsail.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMASTHEAD<\/span>- <\/span>Top of the mast.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMOOR<\/span>- <\/span>To secure a vessel to an object such as a dock or buoy.<\/span>\r\n\r\nPINTLE<\/span>- <\/span>Metal braces or hooks upon which the rudder of a boat swings.<\/span>\r\n\r\nPOINT<\/span>- <\/span>To sail as close as possible to the w<\/span>ind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nPORT<\/span>- <\/span>Left side of a boat, facing toward the bow.<\/span>\r\n\r\nPORT TACK<\/span>- <\/span>Boat sailing with the wind coming over the portside.<\/span>\r\n\r\nQUARTER<\/span>- <\/span>The after part of a boat's side; that part of a craft which is within <\/span>forty<\/span>-<\/span>five degrees from the stern, known as the port quarter <\/span>or starboard <\/span>quarter.<\/span>\r\n\r\nRADAR REFLECTOR<\/span>- <\/span>Metallic contrivance which reflects radar beams.<\/span>\r\n\r\nREACH<\/span>- <\/span>Points of sailing between running and pointing close<\/span>-<\/span>hauled. <\/span>Close <\/span>reach, sailing nearly close<\/span>-<\/span>hauled. <\/span>Beam reach, sailing with the wind abeam. <\/span>Broad reach, sai<\/span>ling with the wind abaft the beam.<\/span>\r\n\r\nREEF<\/span>- <\/span>To reduce sail area by partly lowering sail and securing the surplus <\/span>material to the boom.<\/span>\r\n\r\nRUBBING STRAKE<\/span>- <\/span>Outer plank of hull designed to protect hull from <\/span>docks.<\/span>\r\n\r\nRUB RAIL<\/span>- <\/span>Same as rubbing strake.<\/span>\r\n\r\nRUNNING<\/span>-<\/span>Sailing befo<\/span>re the wind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nRUNNING LIGHTS<\/span>- <\/span>Lights carried by a vessel under way.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSEA ANCHOR<\/span>- <\/span>A drag device (usually a conical canvas pocket held open by <\/span>a metal hoop, but a canvas bucket in <\/span>Tinkerbelle<\/em>'s case) used to keep the <\/span>boat headed into the wind and waves while it <\/span>is not under way, especially <\/span>during heavy weather.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSECURE<\/span>- <\/span>To make fast; to tie or lock into position.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSELF<\/span>-<\/span>BAILING COCKPIT<\/span>- <\/span>A cockpit provided with drains to allow water <\/span>washed into it to return to the sea.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSEXTANT<\/span>- <\/span>Instrument used to determine the altitude <\/span>of the sun or stars used in navigation.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSHACKLE<\/span>- <\/span>A U<\/span>-<\/span>shaped piece of metal with a removable pin across the <\/span>open end. <\/span>Shackles are attached to the ends of a boat's halyards and used to <\/span>link the halyards to the heads of the sails for hoisting.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSHEAVE<\/span>- <\/span>The whe<\/span>el in a block or at the masthead.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSHOAL<\/span>- <\/span>Shallow.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSHROUD<\/span>- <\/span>Standing rigging, usually of stainless<\/span>-<\/span>steel wire, running from the <\/span>mast to the sides of a boat to support the mast. <\/span>The masts' principal lateral <\/span>stays.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSLOOP<\/span>- <\/span>A sailing vessel with one mast and one s<\/span>ail (a jib) before the mast.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSPAR<\/span>- <\/span>General term for masts, booms, whisker poles, etc.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSTANDING RIGGING<\/span>- <\/span>The shrouds and stays and other rigging not <\/span>moved in working the boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSTARBOARD<\/span>- <\/span>The right side of a vessel, looking toward the bow.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSTARBOARD TACK<\/span>- <\/span>Sailin<\/span>g with the wind coming over the starboard side.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSTAY<\/span>- <\/span>Rigging, usually wire, used to support a mast.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSTEERAGEWAY<\/span>- <\/span>The amount of a forward movement necessary to make <\/span>a vessel's rudder effective.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSTEM PLATE<\/span>- <\/span>The plate at the bow to which the jibstay (forestay) <\/span>is <\/span>attached.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSTERN<\/span>- <\/span>The after part of a boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSTIFF<\/span>- <\/span>A boat is said to be stiff when it is not easily heeled.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSTORM SAILS<\/span>- <\/span>Small sails of heavy canvas for use in heavy weather.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSTOW<\/span>- <\/span>To put away.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSQUARE SAIL<\/span>- <\/span>A rectangular sail attached to a spar suspended at <\/span>the <\/span>middle from a mast.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSWELL<\/span>- <\/span>The waves that continue after the wind that created them has changed in direction or vanished.<\/span>\r\n\r\nSWING THE BOAT<\/span>- <\/span>To rotate the vessel to check the compass on known <\/span>courses.<\/span>\r\n\r\nTABERNACLE<\/span>- <\/span>A hinge at the base of a mast which allows th<\/span>e mast to be <\/span>lowered easily.<\/span>\r\n\r\nTACK<\/span>-<\/span>The lower forward corner of a sail. <\/span>Also, to sail to windward in a <\/span>series of zigzags.<\/span>\r\n\r\nTILLER<\/span>- <\/span>A bar connected with the rudderhead and by which the rudder is <\/span>moved to steer the boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nTOPPING LIFT<\/span>- <\/span>A line attached at one end <\/span>to the masthead and at the <\/span>other to the aft end of the boom, which support the boom while the sail is <\/span>being set.<\/span>\r\n\r\nTROUGH<\/span>- <\/span>The valley between the peaks of successive waves.<\/span>\r\n\r\nTRYSAIL<\/span>- <\/span>Small storm sail set in lieu of the mainsail.<\/span>\r\n\r\nUNSHIP<\/span>- <\/span>To remove or detach.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVEER<\/span>- <\/span>Wind shift in a clockwise direction.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWAKE<\/span>- <\/span>The foamy path of disturbed water left behind a moving boat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWATERLINE<\/span>- <\/span>The line painted on a boat's side indicating the proper trim.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWEATHER HELM<\/span>- <\/span>A sailboat in which the tiller must be pulled (usually <\/span>only slightl<\/span>y) toward the wind to keep it on course.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWEATHER SIDE<\/span>- <\/span>Windward side of a sailboat.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWHISKER POLE<\/span>- <\/span>A light spar positioned between the mast and the clew of <\/span>the jib to hold out the sail when running before the wind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWINDWARD<\/span>- <\/span>Toward the wind.<\/span>","rendered":"

ABAFT– Astern of; behind; at the rear of; toward the stern.<\/p>\n

ABEAM– At right angles to the keel.<\/p>\n

ADRIFT– Loose from moorings.<\/p>\n

AFT– Toward or near the stern.<\/p>\n

ASTERN– To the rear or behind.<\/p>\n

BACK– To back a sail is to pull it to the windward side of the vessel. The wind is said to back when its direction shifts in a counterclockwise direction; it is the opposite of veer.<\/p>\n

BACKWIND– When the wind hits the ordinarily leeward side of a sail.<\/p>\n

BATTEN DOWN– To secure or to make watertight.<\/p>\n

BEAM– The point of a vessel’s greatest breadth.<\/p>\n

BEAM ENDS– A boat is said to be on its beam ends when it is knocked over onto its side.<\/p>\n

BEAT– To sail to windward; tack.<\/p>\n

BEND– To bend on sails is to attach them to the vessel, before hoisting, so they are ready for use.<\/p>\n

BILGE– The inside of a vessel near the keel where water may collect.<\/p>\n

BLOCK– A pulley; a frame enclosing one or more sheaves or rollers over which lines are run.<\/p>\n

BOOM– A spar at the foot of a fore–and–aft sail.<\/p>\n

BOOM CRUTCH (OR CRADLE OR CROTCH)– A prop that lifts the boom off the deck and holds it secure when it is not in use.<\/p>\n

BOW– Forward part of a boat.<\/p>\n

BROACH– A vessel broaches when it swings broadside to the wind and waves when running free.<\/p>\n

BULKHEAD– A partition or wall below decks.<\/p>\n

BUOY– A floating object anchored to show position.<\/p>\n

CENTERBOARD– A pivoted board–like device that can be lowered to provide lateral resistance to the water in shoal draft vessels.<\/p>\n

CLEW– Aftermost corner of a sail.<\/p>\n

COAMING–Raised protection around a cockpit.<\/p>\n

COCKPIT– Space within the coaming where the helmsman sits. A self–bailing cockpit has drains to allow water to run out of it.<\/p>\n

COME ABOUT– To bring the boat from one tack to the other when sailing into the wind.<\/p>\n

DAGGERBOARD–KEEL– Heavy, board–like surface used to provide lateral resistance to the water, raised and lowered vertically.<\/p>\n

DEAD RECKONING– Determining a vessel’s position by the course sailed and the distance covered.<\/p>\n

DINGHY– A small rowboat that sometimes is rigged with a sail. Also called tender or dink.<\/p>\n

DOUSE– To take in or lower a sail.<\/p>\n

DRIFT– The leeway of a boat.<\/p>\n

DROGUE– A canvas bucket or conical–shaped device used to provide resistance in the water and slow a vessel or keep its bow pointed into the wind and waves.<\/p>\n

DYE MARKER– Capsule of dye used to color a patch of water to help searchers find a boat or person.<\/p>\n

EASE– To let out the sheet so as to relieve the pressure on the sail and possibly spill some wind.<\/p>\n

ENSIGN– A national flag flow on a boat.<\/p>\n

FEND– To push off.<\/p>\n

FOOT WELL– Central area of cockpit designed to accommodate helmsman’s feet.<\/p>\n

FORE– In or toward the bow of a boat.<\/p>\n

FORE–AND–AFT– Parallel to the keel.<\/p>\n

FORESTAY– Wire used to support mast, leading to the bow.<\/p>\n

FREEBOARD– The distance from the top of the hull to the water.<\/p>\n

GAM– Visiting or conversation carried on between persons from separate ships at sea.<\/p>\n

GENOA– Large, overlapping jib. Also called a genny.<\/p>\n

GHOST–To make headway when there is no apparent wind.<\/p>\n

GRAB RAIL– Railing, usually on cabin top, used as handhold.<\/p>\n

GREENWICH MEAN TIME– Time as measured at the meridian of Greenwich, England.<\/p>\n

GUDGEON– An eye fitting into which the rudder’s pintles are inserted.<\/p>\n

GUNKHOLING– Shallow–water sailing and anchoring in out–of–the–way places.<\/p>\n

HALYARD–A line used to hoist a sail. Also spelled halliard.<\/p>\n

HATCH– An opening in a deck with a cover.<\/p>\n

HEAD– The upper corner of a sail. Also, a boat’s toilet.<\/p>\n

HEAVE TO– To stop a vessel’s progress by putting out a sea anchor or drogue, or hauling a headsail to windward.<\/p>\n

HEAVING LINE– Line with a weighted end to facilitate throwing it ashore or to another vessel.<\/p>\n

HEEL– The tilt, tip, listing or laying–over of a boat, usually due to the force of the wind.<\/p>\n

HELM– The tiller by which the rudder is controlled.<\/p>\n

HULL– The main body of a boat.<\/p>\n

IN IRONS– A boat in the wind’s eye which, having lost all headway, will not go off on either tack.<\/p>\n

JIB– A triangular sail set forward of the mast.<\/p>\n

JIBE– When running, to bring the wind on the other quarter so that the boom swings over. Also spelled gybe.<\/p>\n

JIB SHEET– The line leading from the lower aft end of the jib to the cockpit and by which the set of the jib is controlled.<\/p>\n

JIGGER– Another name for the mizzen or aft sail on a ketch or yawl. Such a sail was improvised on Tinkerbelle <\/em>to help her ride better to a sea anchor.<\/p>\n

KEEL– The backbone of a boat running fore–and–aft.<\/p>\n

KNOT– Measure of distance; one nautical mile, 6,080 feet. Measure of speed: one nautical mile per hour.<\/p>\n

LAPSTRAKE– Overlapping plank of a boat.<\/p>\n

LAZARETTE– A stowage compartment in the stern.<\/p>\n

LEE SHORE– A shore on the side of the boat away from the wind.<\/p>\n

LEE SIDE– The side of the boat away from the wind.<\/p>\n

LEEWARD– In the direction away from the wind.<\/p>\n

LIFELINE– Line by which person is attached to boat.<\/p>\n

LINE– Nautical term for rope used for riggings, anchoring, tying up, etc.<\/p>\n

MAINSAIL OR MAINS’L– The large sail set abaft the mast.<\/p>\n

MAINSHEET– The line that controls the mainsail.<\/p>\n

MASTHEAD– Top of the mast.<\/p>\n

MOOR– To secure a vessel to an object such as a dock or buoy.<\/p>\n

PINTLE– Metal braces or hooks upon which the rudder of a boat swings.<\/p>\n

POINT– To sail as close as possible to the wind.<\/p>\n

PORT– Left side of a boat, facing toward the bow.<\/p>\n

PORT TACK– Boat sailing with the wind coming over the portside.<\/p>\n

QUARTER– The after part of a boat’s side; that part of a craft which is within forty–five degrees from the stern, known as the port quarter or starboard quarter.<\/p>\n

RADAR REFLECTOR– Metallic contrivance which reflects radar beams.<\/p>\n

REACH– Points of sailing between running and pointing close–hauled. Close reach, sailing nearly close–hauled. Beam reach, sailing with the wind abeam. Broad reach, sailing with the wind abaft the beam.<\/p>\n

REEF– To reduce sail area by partly lowering sail and securing the surplus material to the boom.<\/p>\n

RUBBING STRAKE– Outer plank of hull designed to protect hull from docks.<\/p>\n

RUB RAIL– Same as rubbing strake.<\/p>\n

RUNNING–Sailing before the wind.<\/p>\n

RUNNING LIGHTS– Lights carried by a vessel under way.<\/p>\n

SEA ANCHOR– A drag device (usually a conical canvas pocket held open by a metal hoop, but a canvas bucket in Tinkerbelle<\/em>‘s case) used to keep the boat headed into the wind and waves while it is not under way, especially during heavy weather.<\/p>\n

SECURE– To make fast; to tie or lock into position.<\/p>\n

SELF–BAILING COCKPIT– A cockpit provided with drains to allow water washed into it to return to the sea.<\/p>\n

SEXTANT– Instrument used to determine the altitude of the sun or stars used in navigation.<\/p>\n

SHACKLE– A U–shaped piece of metal with a removable pin across the open end. Shackles are attached to the ends of a boat’s halyards and used to link the halyards to the heads of the sails for hoisting.<\/p>\n

SHEAVE– The wheel in a block or at the masthead.<\/p>\n

SHOAL– Shallow.<\/p>\n

SHROUD– Standing rigging, usually of stainless–steel wire, running from the mast to the sides of a boat to support the mast. The masts’ principal lateral stays.<\/p>\n

SLOOP– A sailing vessel with one mast and one sail (a jib) before the mast.<\/p>\n

SPAR– General term for masts, booms, whisker poles, etc.<\/p>\n

STANDING RIGGING– The shrouds and stays and other rigging not moved in working the boat.<\/p>\n

STARBOARD– The right side of a vessel, looking toward the bow.<\/p>\n

STARBOARD TACK– Sailing with the wind coming over the starboard side.<\/p>\n

STAY– Rigging, usually wire, used to support a mast.<\/p>\n

STEERAGEWAY– The amount of a forward movement necessary to make a vessel’s rudder effective.<\/p>\n

STEM PLATE– The plate at the bow to which the jibstay (forestay) is attached.<\/p>\n

STERN– The after part of a boat.<\/p>\n

STIFF– A boat is said to be stiff when it is not easily heeled.<\/p>\n

STORM SAILS– Small sails of heavy canvas for use in heavy weather.<\/p>\n

STOW– To put away.<\/p>\n

SQUARE SAIL– A rectangular sail attached to a spar suspended at the middle from a mast.<\/p>\n

SWELL– The waves that continue after the wind that created them has changed in direction or vanished.<\/p>\n

SWING THE BOAT– To rotate the vessel to check the compass on known courses.<\/p>\n

TABERNACLE– A hinge at the base of a mast which allows the mast to be lowered easily.<\/p>\n

TACK–The lower forward corner of a sail. Also, to sail to windward in a series of zigzags.<\/p>\n

TILLER– A bar connected with the rudderhead and by which the rudder is moved to steer the boat.<\/p>\n

TOPPING LIFT– A line attached at one end to the masthead and at the other to the aft end of the boom, which support the boom while the sail is being set.<\/p>\n

TROUGH– The valley between the peaks of successive waves.<\/p>\n

TRYSAIL– Small storm sail set in lieu of the mainsail.<\/p>\n

UNSHIP– To remove or detach.<\/p>\n

VEER– Wind shift in a clockwise direction.<\/p>\n

WAKE– The foamy path of disturbed water left behind a moving boat.<\/p>\n

WATERLINE– The line painted on a boat’s side indicating the proper trim.<\/p>\n

WEATHER HELM– A sailboat in which the tiller must be pulled (usually only slightly) toward the wind to keep it on course.<\/p>\n

WEATHER SIDE– Windward side of a sailboat.<\/p>\n

WHISKER POLE– A light spar positioned between the mast and the clew of the jib to hold out the sail when running before the wind.<\/p>\n

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