Cap

cap
A piece of trim, usually wood, used to cover and often decorate a portion of the boat, i.e., caprail.
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CAP - Common Agricultural Policy, PAC - Politique Agricole Commune (Fr)
EC policy in respect of agricultural produce, aiming to maintain prices for EC farmers and to ensure regular supplies to EC customers.

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Cat Boat - has a single sail on a mast which is set far forward. These are usually very easily single-handed, though they may not go to weather as well as a sloop. Some of the recent designs use unstayed masts.

Cap rail
{Tapa de Regala}
The upper edge of the side of a ship or boat.

A cap for the top of the mast.
True Course
The course of a boat after being corrected for magnetic deviation and magnetic variation.

truck - A cap for the top of the mast.
true wind - The speed and direction of the wind. The motion of a boat will cause the wind to appear to be coming at a different direction and speed, which is known as apparent wind ...

25 Coolant Intake Cap A B C D E F

26. If the engine exhaust's through hull is not spitting water you should check : ...

Removes his cap when visiting the mess decks as token of respect for the privacy of the crew in those quarters. Officer i/c cables on the forecastle. In the U.S. Navy the senior person in charge of all Deck hands.

The success of the Enterprise, of 470 tons, which made the voyage from London to Calcutta by the Cap~a of Good Hope in 1825 in 103 sailing days, is noteworthy.

CAP Condition Assessment Program
Structural assessment program devised by the classification societies ABS, LR, DNV. CBT (MARPOL) Clean Ballast Tank
Tank exclusively dedicated to clean ballast C3H8 Propane ...

Connect the fuel tank to the motor (if the tank cap has an air intake, make sure it is open) and press primer bulb until you feel resistance; ...

The shrouds are swept and there are cap shrouds that go to the masthead to help support the large asymmetrical chute. The SA/D of this design, using the total sail area figures for mainsail and jib provided in the data, is 30.50.

A cap will prevent heat loss from the head on cool days. If you have long hair, keep it up so it does not get caught in rigging. Take a lot of water, even if it's cool. You can get dehydrated even when the sun isn't shining.

It was located in a semicircular chock on the cap rail, while the inboard end fitted into a simple socket that was fastened to a stowage bin on deck. Dangling from the outboard end of the boom was a large block, through which ran a heavy 'boat rope'.

Perhaps the most common image that leaps to mind is that of a lone seaman wearing yellow foul-weather gear and a navy watch cap, ...

House -- To lower a topmast down within the cap.
Inhaul -- The rope used to haul sails inboard.
In irons -- The condition of a vessel head to wind and with way lost, unable to pay off on one tack or the other.

Lower shrouds (lowers) connect below the lower spreaders, intermediate shrouds (intermediates) higher up, and upper shrouds (uppers, cap shrouds) connect to the mast at or near its top.