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.
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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; across the ship or boatfrom side to side. Rowboat seats are generally athwartships.
BATTEN DOWN: Secure hatches and loose objects both within the hull and on deck.
Athwartships:
From one side of a ship to the other.
Atoll:
A horseshoe: shaped or circular reef of coral surrounding a lagoon.
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.
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.
Also athwartships. Across the width of a boat.
Tidal Atlas
Small charts showing tidal stream directions and rate of flow.
athwartships - At right angles (90 degrees) to the centerline boat.
autopilot - An automatic steering device. Methods include GPS-controlled motors, windvanes, and rigging the steering tiller to the jib or main sails.
athwart, athwartships
Lying along the ship's width, at right angles to the vessels centerline.
atmospheric pressure ...
The floor on a boat deck beams Athwartships members that support the deck; their outer ends usually rest on the clamps deck horse, boom horse, ...
VEE BOTTOM Not flat athwartships. In a flat bottom boat (SISSY DO), the chines meet the keel at the bottom of the stem.
But this shortness means that there is only room in that pilothouse for a steering station, quasi-chart table and a settee with a dining table that I can't bring myself to call a 'dinette' because the athwartships legs on the ends are really not ...
Bulkheads Partitions fore and aft or Athwartships, forming separate compartments.
Bulwarks A vessel's topsides that extend above the deck.
Buoy A float, with distinguishing name, shape, color or light.
Amidships: The middle of a boat, either fore, aft, or athwartships
Anchor: An object used to hold a vessels position, usually made of iron.
Anchorage: a place to anchor, prefrably protected from wind and waves ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
the line parted under strain PAY OUT to let out chain, line, or wire PITCH angular motion about the athwartships axis of the ship PORT when facing forward, ...
 See also: Athwart, Forward, Hull, Boat, Deck
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