caulking - Material used to seal the seams in a wooden vessel, making it watertight.
Caulk To fill the side or deck seams with oakum or cotton to prevent leaking.
caulking - Driving oakum into the seams of a vessel. Modern caulking is made of synthetic plastics.
caulking iron - A kind of blunt chisel used for driving oakum into the seams.
Caulking/Calking:
Forcing material into the seams of the planks in a boat's deck or sides to make them watertight; the material itself.
Take a Caulk
On deck of a ship, between planks, was a thick caulk of black tar and rope to keep water from between decks.
Caulking -- Driving oakum into the seams of a vessel with a mallet and a blunt chisel called a caulking iron.
Clews -- The lower corners of square sails; the lower after-corners of fore-and-aft sails.
caulk: to make seams watertight by filling them with a waterproof compound or other material. center of effort (CE): a theoretical point on a boat's sail plan that represents the focus or center of the total forces of wind on the sails.
Carvel planking - Solid wood planks, butted together, fastened to the frames, with a flexible caulking between the planks.
Catamaran- A twin hulled boat.
The seams between the planks should be thoroughly caulked. DECK PLATING A term applied to the steel plating of a deck. DECK STRINGER The strip of deck plating that runs along the outer edge of a deck.
Calk to fill wooden vessel seams with oakum and cotton using caulking irons and hammer
Caulking- Material used to seal the seams in a wooden vessel, making it watertigh.
Pay - Fill a seam (with caulking or pitch), or to lubricate the running rigging; pay with slush (q.v.), or protect from the weather by covering with slush. See also: The Devil to pay. (French from paix, pitch) ...
HANKS: Snap-on devices for attaching a sail to a stay.
PITCH: 1) The alternate rise and fall of the bow of a vessel proceeding through waves. 2) The theoretical distance advanced by a propeller in one revolution. 3) Tar and resin used for caulking ...
CAULK To seal the seams of a vessel with oakum and tar. CHAFING GEAR Tubing or cloth wrapping used to protect a line from chafing on a rough surface. CHART A map for use by navigators.
In traditional wooden ships, sailors had to caulk or pay the seams between planks with hot tar to keep their ship from leaking to the bilges. The devil seam was topmost in the hull, next to the scuppers (waterways or gutters) at the edge of the deck.
possessed, and, in reference to the "Great Henry Grace à Dieu," as she is therein called, which was built at Erith, is the following: "being in good reparation, caulking except, ...
Tar and resin used for caulking between the planks of a wooden vessel.
Pitching-The movement of a ship, by which she plunges her head and after-part alternately into the hollow of the sea.
OAKUM - Caulking material made from rope junk, old rope, and rope scraps; it was unwound, picked apart, and the fibers were rolled and soaked in pitch before being driven into the planking seams.
OUTBOARD - Toward or beyond the boat's sides.
Caulking: Forcing material such as oakum into the seams of planks on a deck or a boats sides to make them watertight.
Celestial Navigation: To calculate your position using time and the position of celestial bodies.
Careen: To careen is to turn over on one side for cleaning, caulking, or repairing.
OAKUM - Old ropes untwisted for caulking the seams of ships.
ORLOP - Lowest deck in a ship having four or more decks.
OUTRIGGER - Spar extended from side of ship to help secure mast.
Old hemp or jute fiber, loosely twisted and impregnated with tar or a tar derivative, used to caulk sides and decks of ships and to pack joints of pipes and caissons. (back)
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PITCH: The alternating rise and fall of the bow of a vessel proceeding through waves; the theoretical distance advanced by a propeller in one revolution; tar and resin used for caulking between the planks of a wooden vessel.
wood, S' () were no doubt of various sizes, some of them quite small, but all following the same type of construction, built up brick fashion, the blocks being fastened internally to long poles secured by cross pieces, and the interstices caulked ...
 See also: Boat, Right, Point, Sailing, Running
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