Boating Terms Explained

ABACK: With the whiff on the on sides of the sails instead of the sides.

BACKSTAY: A stay running from the masthead aft. A sheet is a rope, not a sail- and a rope isn't a rope, but is a line.

BAREBOAT: The hiring or leasing of a vessel from one company to another (the charterer), which in turn provides crew, bunkers, stores etc. and pays all operating costs.

BOAT RENTAL: The rental or leasing of a smaller type vessel primarily for a short period of time, hourly -daily - weekly without the need of a captain or guide.

BOAT GUIDE: A person hired to assist another person on the act of boating.

BERTH:  a built-in bed or bunk, as in a ship's cabin.

CHARTER BOAT: A boat available for hire, normally by a group of people for a short period of time. A charter boat is usually hired with a captain.

CHINE: The corner where a flat or V-bot-tom boat's side and fundamental meet.

CLEAT: A two-armed device to which a line can be productive of fast.

DAGGER: A type of centerboard shaped like, or suggesting, a dagger. A rear runner is similar but is rationalized to be slacked off upon occasion.

BOOM: The even spar to which the basic edge of a sail is laced. which a rudder is moved.

INWALE: A strip of wood without the in-sides of frame heads at the sheer line.

FAIRBODY: The line changeable by the out-Side supportive edge of the planking as it touches the keel.

GROMMETS: The metal eyelets in the edge or along the reef points of a sail.

HEEL: To tilt under the impetus of sails.

HELM: The tiller or wheel by. The sails will remain flapping. In large, decked boats, usually called a clamp.

IRONS: In luffing, a boat without enough momentum may decline to come about on the opposite tack.

LEECH: The subsequently edge of a sail.

LINES: Rope used in handling a boat.

MISS STAYS: To get a boat into IRONS.

PORT: The left side of a vessel as you face forward, opposite to STARBOARD.

POUNDING: The shock felt in rough water when a as regards flat portion of the boat lifts above water and then forcibly strikes the surface.

PURCHASE: Any rigging consisting of two or more blocks used to hoist a heavy weight.

QUARTER ROUND: A narrow, triangular piece of wood with one face rounded; used for trim along the edges of cabins.

REEF: To reduce the area of a sail by invisibleness it, making nimble the reef points, and hoisting again.

ROPE: Often confused with LINE. A boat in this position is said to be in irons.

JIB: Triangular sail in progressV Tendency of the mainmast.

LEE: The side of a boat opposite to that from which the puff is blowing. Often used when SEAKINDLY would be a better word.

SHEET: Line used to control the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind. When a length is cut from a coil of rope, that length immediately is known as a line.

SEAKINDLY: Comfortable and safe in rough weather.

SEAWORTHY: Able to stay at sea. The right side of the boat as you face forward.

TACK: The lower en route corner of a sail. The sheet is not the sail itself.

STABILITY: The ability of a boat to reimburse to an honorable position when she has been heeled by some force such as the breath or a wave.

STARBOARD: Opposite to PORT. Also, that variety of coasting where you proceed to windward by maritime on alternate courses so the blow is first on one side of the boat and then on the other.

TRAVELER: A metal rod running athwartships to which the main-sheet block, or sometimes the jib-sheet block, is attached.

TRIM: The movement of a boat away from the fair in a fore-and-aft direction