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New York Yacht Club's new one-design may have cruising amenities belowdecks, but all the fun is found topsides ...

Yacht Club Membership...Without the Yacht
If you think you need to own a yacht in order to join a yacht club, think again! In reality, many fans of sailing simply don't have the time to get out on the water as much as they'd like.

club - A boom on a jib or staysail.
Coast Pilots - Books covering information about coastal navigation, including navigational aids, courses, distances, anchorages and harbors.

club-footed - The foot of a jib (or foresail) which is supported by a small boom.
coach roof - Also trunk. The cabin roof, raised above the deck to provide headroom in the cabin.

Club:
A boom on a jib or staysail.
Coach Roof:
The cabin roof, raised above the deck to provide headroom in the cabin. Also trunk.

[edit] Club hauling
Club hauling is an archaic technique: when a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the ...

The Club was established in 1991 by a group of past members of local RYA shore based evening classes whose mutual interest is sailing.

A yacht club's highest officer. The next highest is the vice commodore, followed by the rear commodore. Because each is assigned a distinctive flag they are called flag officers. The term comes from an historic navy rank just below admiral.

Jib Boom, Jib Club: The spar to which the foot of the jib is attached, usually only seen on R/C Sailboats. See boom also.
Keel: The weighted fin at the bottom of the boat that keeps the boat from slipping sideways through the water.

Denholme Sailing Club
DEFINITIONS
Abandon -- A race that a race committee or protest committee abandons is void but may be resailed.

New York Yacht Club (NYYC): The original winner of the America's Cup and its possessor for 132 years, overcoming 25 challenges; challenger of record for America's Cup 2000 and backer of the Young America syndicate.

Key Lime Sailing Club
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International Rule Club, the increasingly popular handicap system which is currently used to determine the Overall Winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.

By all means join a club, I say. You get all the advantages of the house and the anchorage, and all the benefits that accrue to association with men who are ardent and enthusiastic in the enjoyment of their pet diversion.

(3) The challenging club must give ten months' notice of the race, and accompanying the challenge must be sent the name, rig and the following dimensions: length L.W.L.

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 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.

close-reach A point of sailing between a beam reach and a beat clove hitch A practical knot for securing a mooring line quickly club A spar on the bottom of a staysail or topsail club-footed A type of jib sail that is bent to a club ...

Club: Societies of mostly non-professional sailors that sail for pleasure; the first sailing clubs developed in the 17th century in England
Coaming: A wall-like extension above the deck to protect the cockpit from wind and water ...

P & I Club - Protection and Indemnity Association, the carriers mutual liability assurer.
PILOT - A person who is qualified to assist the master of a ship to navigate when entering or leaving a port. In most ports pilotage is compulsory.

Other flags, such as club burgees, private signals and courtesy flags for use on sailboats, should be approximately 1/2 inch for each foot of the highest mast above the water. For example, on a 30ft. boat, with 50ft.

Fee-based services like parking, picnic area, pub, and club-house for a shower, are usually included as part of any monthly long-term rental agreement package.

Before you rush off to the nearest club and offer your services, you would do well to realize that racing a yacht will take a good deal of your spare time.

Club footed jib - A jib with a boom or "club" on the foot of the sail.
Cutter- A sailboat with one mast and rigged a mainsail and two headsails. Also see sloop.
Cuddy - A small compartment or cabin ...

Protection and Indemnity Club
Abbreviation: P & I club.
A mutual association of shipowners who provide protection against liabilities by means of contributions.
Protocol
A statement drawn up to attest certain events.

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Current-The horizontal movement of water.
Club footed jib: A jib with a boom or "club" on the foot of the sail.
Cutter- A sailboat with one mast and rigged a mainsail and two headsails. Also see sloop.

Kingdom Yachts Sailing Club
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Nautical Nomenclature ...

Print out and post or distribute any of my Web pages to other sailors (or yacht club members) provided you don't charge a fee (in other words, feel free to distribute at club-sponsored seminars and other events) ...

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
Sailing downwind with the wind blowing over the leeward side of the boat.

CLUB-FOOT A fore foot in which displacement or volume is placed near the keel and close to the forward perpendicular, resulting in full water lines below water and fine lines at and near the designed water line, ...

burgee
Small flag that bears a yacht club's symbol.
camber
Curvature of a sail.

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Clearly, the signal applicance needed for a twelve-meter boat in New York Harbor would not be needed on a three-meter outboard dinghy operated on a small inland lake or in a yacht club's moorings.

[Middle English, from Old French fustaigne, from Medieval Latin fustâneum, possibly from Latin fústis, wooden stick, club (loan translation of Greek xulina (lina), wood-linen, cotton) and or from El Fostat (El Fustat), a section of Cairo, Egypt.] ...

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.