ATHWARTSHIPS: At right angles to the centreline of the boat; rowboat seats are generally athwart ships.
AWEIGH - The position of anchor as it is raised clear of the bottom.
B
BACKSTAY: A support wire that runs from the top of the mast to the stern ...
Athwartships
At right angles to the centerline of the boat; rowboat seats are generally athwart ships.
Aweigh
The position of anchor as it is raised clear of the bottom ...
Athwartship: At right angles to the fore-aft line of a vessel
Auxiliary: An engine used as secondary propulsion in a sailboat
Baggy wrinkle: Chafing gear made from old rope ...
Athwart From side to side.
Avast To stop, to hold fast, e.g. avast heaving.
Awash A vessel, wreck, or shoal so low that water constantly washes over.
Athwart- Across a boat; at right angles to the fore-and aft line.
Auxiliary- An engine used as a secondary source of propulsion.
athwart, athwartships - Lying along the ship's width, at right angles to the vessels centerline.
auxiliary - A second method of propelling a vessel. On a sailboat this could be a engine.
aweigh - To raise an anchoranchor off the bottom.
athwart
Perpendicular to a boat's centerline
axle ratio
A ratio that defines the relationship of revolutions of a tow vehicle's axle to that of its driveshaft or transaxle, e.g. 2.54:1.
Athwart - same as Abeam, to the side of the ship at right angles, either left or right.
A-trip - said when the anchor breaks loose of the bottom as it is being heaved in.
Avast - stop immediately, an imperative order.
athwart: a-thwart (e-thwôrt¹) adverb 1. From side to side; crosswise or transversely. 2. So as to thwart, obstruct, or oppose; perversely. preposition 1.
athwart - Transversely, at right angles to fore and aft ; across the keel. Athwartship is thus across the ship from one side to the other. Athwart hawse is when one vessel gets across the stem of another.
Athwart:
Lying along the ship's width, at right angles to the vessels fore-and-aft line (centerline). Same as abeam.
Athwartship:
A member or dimension running from port to starboard.
Athwart or Athwartship - Across the beam of a boat
Awash - Barely floating; mostly submerged or, what my boat needs
Aweigh - Anchor off the bottom ...
Athwart or thwart
Across, generally across the slip; as the thwarts or seats on which rowers sit
Ballast ...
athwartships - perpendicular to fore and aft.
beam - a timber similar in use to a floor joist, which runs from one side of the hull to the other athwartships.
boat - A smaller vessel able to be carried on the deck of a larger one.
Athwart - Anything running across the boat from side to side. An aft bench seat across the stern is athwartships.
Aweigh - What an anchor is when it is off the bottom.
B ...
Athwartships structural support inside the boat's bottom.
flopper-stopper, paravane
A device hung alonside in the water from a powerboat's outrigger, to limit rolling.
The athwartship portion of a hull at the stern.
Traveller
A slide which travels on a track.
Also athwartships. Across the width of a boat.
Tidal Atlas
Small charts showing tidal stream directions and rate of flow.
ATHWARTSHIP(S) Across the boat.
B Top
BACKSTAY A wire-rope from the top of the mast leading aft to prevent the mast from bending forward. BALLAST Weight carried low in a boat to increase stability.
ATHWART - At right angles to the fore-and-aft line of a vessel.
BACK - Change in direction of the wind in counterclockwise direction, see veer.
BACKSTAY - Part of the standing rigging, usually cable, that supports the mast from aft. ...
There is a large, athwartship double aft, tucked under the cockpit, with a hanging locker and additional storage under the bunk. This will likely be the best sea berth on the boat.
CAMBER, ROUND OF BEAM The weather decks of ships are rounded up or arched in an athwartship direction for the purpose of draining any water that may fall on them to the sides of the ship where it can be led overboard through scuppers.
in the stern AGENT see "ship's port agent" ALOFT above the decks as on the mast or in the rigging AMIDSHIPS midway between bow and stern, in the line of the keel ASTERN toward the rear of the vessel; behind the vessel; backward progress ATHWARTSHIP ...
Seas that come from either side of a boat; Compare to following sea [Top of Page] [Bottom of Page] beam wind A wind which blows athwart a vessel's fore-and-aft line bear 1.
Athwart: Across. Transversely.
Athwartships -At right angles to the centerline of the boat; rowboat seats are generally athwartships.
A-trip: Said of anchor immediately it is broken out of the ground.
If kept suspended under athwart it can never be trodden on and burst, as it would be in any other place by a body of people hurriedly springing into a boat.
ASTERN - In back of the boat, opposite of ahead.
ATHWARTSHIPS - At right angles to the centerline of the boat; rowboat seats are generally athwart ships.
AWEIGH - The position of anchor as it is raised clear of the bottom.
ANCHORAGE - A place suitable for anchoring in relation to the wind, seas and bottom.
ASTERN - In back of the boat, opposite of ahead.
ATHWARTSHIPS - At right angles to the centerline of the boat; rowboat seats are generally athwartships.
Running or oriented side-to-side (or athwartships) on a ship. Frames, for example, are latitudinal timbers. See also longitudinal. (back)
launch
lighter ...
Behind a vessel or an aircraft.
Backward; in a reverse direction. Athwartships
Across the vessel, that is, from side to side. Said of cargo stowed in this way, as opposed to lengthwise.
wind on upper works, movement of weights athwartships, turning, &c., causing large and uncomfortable angles of heel.
Next morning before sunrise arm yourself with a good hard deck-scrubber, and set to work in earnest, using plenty of hot water and scrubbing the deck planks (fore and aft, mind you, always, and never athwartship) until every particle of the old ...
are placed vertically between the forward masthead light(s) and the after masthead light(s) these all-round lights shall be placed at a horizontal distance of not less than 2 meters from the fore and aft centerline of the vessel in the athwartship ...
Astern: Backwards, somewhere behind the vessel, or towards or behind the stern.
Athwartships: From one side of a ship to the other.
Avast: A command to stop or cease what one is doing.
Awash: Water washing over. A boat when almost submerged.
Apparent wind: The subjective wind that results from true wind and the wind produced by motion
Astern: in backward direction; back; abaft the stern
Athwartships: in a 90 degree angle to the centerline of the vessel ...
 See also: Forward, Boat, Hull, Deck, Light
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