ABOVE DECK: On the deck (not over it - see ALOFT)
ABREAST: Side by side; by the side of.
ADRIFT: Loose, not on moorings or towline.
AFT: Toward the rear (stern) of the boat, to move aft is to move back
AGROUND: Touching or fast to the bottom.
Aloft: Overhead, up
Amidships: The middle of a boat, either fore, aft, or athwartships
Anchor: An object used to hold a vessels position, usually made of iron.
Aloft- In the rigging or up the mast.
Amidships- In the center of the boat.
Anemometer- An instrument that measures the velocity of the wind.
Aloft - overhead, above
Amidships - the middle of the boat
Anchor - An object designed to grip the ground, under a body of water, to hold the boat in a selected area ...
ALOFT: Above or on top of the deck of the boat.
AMIDSHIP(S): In or toward the part of a boat or ship midway between the bow and the stern; toward the middle of the ship or boat.
aloft
Above deck in the rigging.
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Aloft
Above the deck of the boat.
Amidships
In or toward the center of the boat.
Aloft - to be or go up into the rigging or on the mast, above the deck.
Anchors aweigh - phrase indicating the anchor has been lifted off the sea bottom as it is being heavedin. (See A-trip and Weigh anchor.) ...
Aloft:
Above the deck, usually overhead on the mast or in the rigging.
Alongside:
Close beside a ship, wharf or jetty.
Aloft - Above the deck
Aloft - Above the hull; in the air
Amidship - Between fore and aft, the middle of the boat ...
aloft - Above the deck; Usually a location in the rigging.
along shore - Close to the shore, by the shore, or on the shore.
along the land - To lay along the land is when a vessel can hug or keep close to the land without tacking.
to raise aloft
In Irons
having turned onto the wind or lost the wind, stuck and unable to make headway ...
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aloft - Above the deck amidships - Toward the middle of a ship in regard to length or width anemometer - Instrument for measuring and indicating the speed of the wind Back to Top
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1) The spar aloft on the traditional four-sided gaff rig. See rig. 2) A pole with a sharp hook used to retrieve fish from the water.
gale
Wind speed of 34 to 47 knots.
[edit] Going aloft
In order to set and stow the square sails, the crew must climb aloft and spread out along the yards. To do this, they stand in footropes suspended beneath the yard and balance themselves between that and the yard itself.
aloft: at or toward the upper rigging. amidships: in or near the middle of a boat, either along the longitudinal axis or from side to side. astern: in the direction of, or behind, the stern.
Gone Aloft - Sailor's phrase for a seaman who has died.
Gooseneck - The fitting which connects the boom to the mast.
another ship or an obstruction ABREAST alongside of; on the beam ACOUSTIC WIRE same as hydro wire but with electrical conductors built in ADCP Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler AFT toward the stern; in the stern AGENT see "ship's port agent" ALOFT ...
ALOFT - Above deck, usually in the rigging.
AMIDSHIPS - In or toward a boat's middle part, between the sides or between bow and stern.
ANCHOR - Device used to secure boat to bottom of body of water.
Aloft - above the hull; in the air.
Anti-ventilation plate - The horizontal plate just above the prop
(Sometimes called the anti-cavitation plate )
Amidships - near the middle of a boat.
Aqua-Dynamics- no such word (courtesy of Brian Espy) ...
GANTLINE or GIRTLINE A rope reeving through a single block aloft and used for hoisting or lowering rigging, drying clothing and hammocks, etc. GARBOARD The strakes of outside plating next to the keel.
See also: spring tide, neap tide [Top of Page] [Bottom of Page] ratlines Lines running fore and aft between the shrouds, used as a ladder in going aloft reach All points sailing between running (downwind) and closehauled (upwind).
Shake out - to release a reefed sail and hoist the sail aloft
Sheave - the wheel of a block pulley
Sheer strake The topmost planking in the sides, often thicker than other planking.
Above deck: On the deck of the boat, not aloft
Abreast: Side by side, normally referring to ships or boats that are aligned like that.
Adrift: Lose in the sense of not anchored or moored.
Aloft - up above the deck, up the mast or in the rigging
Alongside - Close beside a ship, wharf or jetty.
"Ahoy" - seaman's call to attract attention ...
The leg-of-mutton rig, whether combined with a jib or not, is the simplest and safest known, for there is no weight aloft such as is inevitable with a gaff. It is a sail exactly adapted to the requirements of a learner.
ABOVE DECK - On the deck (not over it - see ALOFT).
AFT - Toward the stern of the boat.
AGROUND - Touching or fast to the bottom.
AHEAD - In a forward direction.
The rigging must also provide the crew with the means of going aloft, and with standing ground to do their work when aloft.
ABOVE DECK - On the deck (not over it - see ALOFT)
ABREAST - Side by side; by the side of.
AFT - Toward the stern of the boat.
AGROUND - Touching or fast to the bottom.
Aloft: Above the deck, overhead on the mast or in the rigging.
Akas: Lateral struts that attach outrigger hulls to a trimaran or proa.
Ama: The outrigger hull(s) of a proa, or trimaran.
Amidships: The middle area of the boat.
Shake out - to release a reefed sail and hoist the sail aloft
Sheet: - piece of line fastened to the sail and used to position relative to the wind.
Sheetbend is knot used to tie two ropes of unequal thickness together ...
General term for ropes leading aloft for support or control.
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A through of warm air aloft. The stage in an occlusion process where the warm air lifts completely off the surface. The significant weather stays with the trowal as it pulls away from the parent low pressure centre.
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Lay To go, i.e. lay aft or lay aloft, lay to ( i.e. heave to) lay up, lay a course. The twisting of strands in a rope.
Lazy An extra such as a lazy painter, i.e. an extra painter.
Attach the main halyard, looking "aloft" (up) in case it's "fouled" (twisted) around a spreader or backstay. If the main luff has slides, put them all on the mast track starting at the head of the sail.
A chair traditionally made from a plank and rope, used to hoist workers aloft to maintain the rigging.
Bosun's Locker
A locker where tools for maintaining the deck, rigging and sails are kept.
To prevent the buntline ropes from chaffing the sails, crew were sent aloft to haul them over the sails. This was called overhauling.
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Ratline: Any of the small ropes that join the shrouds of a ship horizontally and serve as ships for going aloft.
Rigging: The ropes, chains, etc employed to support and work the masts, sails, etc on a ship.
Small lines tied between the shrouds to use as a ladder when going aloft.
reach
Sail with the wind abeam, or almost so.
ratlines - Small lines tied between the shrouds to use as a ladder when going aloft.
Wasters, older, unfit, disabled sailors or 'pressed' landsmen, who could not be trusted to work aloft in the rigging), were used for menial shipboard tasks such as swinging the lead, casting around and sounding out the depth, ...
If you leave them as far outboard as possible you can reduce the loads on the mast and save weight and windage aloft. Note the clew of this jib comes exactly to the point where the chainplates are. The SA/D is 25.
" This criticism and reply is seen set forth in a report to the Navy Board, 15th of May, 1747: "40-gun ships may undoubtedly be built slighter and much snugger than our present ships, whose extra strength and height in creases their weight aloft, ...
Generally less efficient for top performance, but does have less windage aloft when sail is reduced. JIBHEAD RIG - In a jibhead rig the forestay does not attach to the masthead but at a point lower on the mast where the top of the jib meets the mast.
 See also: Boat, Deck, Forward, Point, Lines
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