Breakwater

Breakwater
A structure built to improve a harbor by sheltering it from waves.
Bulwarks
The sides of a boat above the upper deck.

Breakwater:
A manmade structure, in or around a harbor, designed to break the force of the sea, thus providing shelter.

Breakwater.
jib, headsail
Sometimes foresail. Jib rhymes with "bib". A sail set between the forwardmost mast and the headstay. All jibs are trimmed using a jibsheet, a line that passes through a block on deck (jib lead).

Jetty
A mole or breakwater, running out into the sea to protect harbour or coast. It is sometimes used as a landing-pier.
Jib
Projecting arm of a crane.
Attachment connected to the top of a crane boom. JIT
See Just In Time.

Harbor - A safe anchorage, protected from most storms; may be natural or man-made, with breakwaters and jetties; a place for docking and loading.

Breakwater protecting a harbor entrance
Jib: - a triangular foresail in front of the foremast.
Jib Sheet The lines that lead from the clew of the jib.
Jibboom -Spar forward of bowsprit
Jibe.

During a test sail that took us beyond the Padanaram Breakwater Light and into Apponagansett Bay, the smallest of the Beneteau line handled admirably.

The "spreading" of waves into the lee of obstacles such as breakwaters by the transfer of wave energy along wave crests. Diffracted waves are lower in height than incident waves.
Directional Waverider Buoy ...

For with mainsail unlashed he can hoist his anchor or cast off from moorings, and under his two small sails work his boat out slowly and safely from the jammed basin or crowded space within the breakwater.

BREAKWATER A term applied to plates or timbers fitted on a forward weather deck to form a V-shaped shield against water that is shipped over the bow.

See also: Boat, Forward, Crew, Deck, Hull