Burgee
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BURGEE (of unknown origin), a small three-cornered or swallow-tailed flag or pennant used by yachts or merchant vessels; also a kind of small coal burnt in engine furnaces.
BURGEE: Small, triangular flag flow at the masthead. It generally signifies membership of a specific yacht club, but sometime can be a blank or a private flag used mainly as a wind indicator.
Burgee
It is a small flag displaying the symbol of the skipper's yacht club or other sailing organization. It may be flown day and night.
Burgee - an identifying flag.
Careen - to heel a ship onto one side or the other, usually on a sandy beach, in order to make repairs to the hull or scrape barnacles and sea growth from the hull.
burgee
Small flag that bears a yacht club's symbol.
camber
Curvature of a sail.
burgee
A type of flag used to identify a boater's affiliation with a yacht club or boating organization. Also used to indicate wind direction.
by the lee ...
burgee - A special flag; flag used to indicate vessel ownership or affiliation, such as a yacht club.
burton - A tackle composed of two single blocks; a double Spanish burton consists of two single and one double block.
Watch the Burgee
Yacht club membership has its privileges. One of them is a really cool unique flag that every club assigns to its members. This flag is called a "Burgee," and its purpose is to identify each yacht club's member boats.
BURGEE A triangular shaped flag denoting the yacht club to which the owner belongs. BUTT Buttock. Used for developing the lines of a boat. Used only for lofting the lines to full size; not required when patterns are supplied.
A flagstaff on which the burgee or private signal is set. The pig stick is hoisted aloft on the flag halyard and holds the flag above the sails.
piling, pile
A post driven into the water's bottom and supporting a pier, wharf, jetty, dock, or float.
Burgee: A small flag, typically triangular, flown from the masthead of a yacht to indicate yacht-club membership.
By and large: By means into the wind, while large means with the wind.
bunksLong carpeted sections of a boat trailer that support the boat's weight. buoyAn anchored floating object that serves as a navigation aid. Also used to mark a mooring spot. burgeeSmall flag that bears a yacht club's symbol.
Buoyancy tanks: Sealed tanks in the hull of dinghies that contain buoyancy to support the boat in case it capsizes
Burgee: A little flag on the top of a mast that indicates the direction of the wind ...
 See also: Secure, Boom, Lines, Point, Boat
  
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