Cuddy

CRINGLE: A reinforced eye worked into the luff or leech of a sail to form the new tack or clew when reefing.
CUDDY: A small shelter cabin in a boat.
CUNNINGHAM: (also called a Downhaul): Adjusting the tension of a sail's luff.

Cuddy Cabins
Boats with a "cuddy cabin" are runabouts or cruisers with a small cabin for resting or overnight anchoring.

Cuddy - A small shelter cabin in a boat.
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Danger Zone - The area encompassed from dead ahead of your boat to just abaft your starboard beam. You must stand clear of any boat in the "danger zone." ...

cuddy cabin
Belowdecks accommodations in the bow area for overnighting and stowage.
cure
Hardening process for resin-soaked fiberglass laminates.

cuddy - A small shelter cabin in a boat.
cunningham - Invented by Briggs Cunningham, it is the line controlling tension along a sail's luff by using a line to pull down the mainsail a short distance from the luff to the tack.

Cuddy - A small shelter cabin in a boat.
Cunningham - A mainsail control device, using a line to pull down the mainsail a short distance from the luff to the tack. Flattens the sail.
Current - The horizontal movement of water.

There is a cuddy cabin forward for the head. There is a 'galley' aft sunken into the port side seat so that when you lift a lid the two-burner stove is sheltered from the wind. There is a bin in the galley thwart to stow cooking utensils.

Deckhouse, Cabin and Cuddy
Boats may be the open type or may have a "Deckhouse", "Cabin" or "Cuddy" to use as shelter against the elements.

A cabin cruiser (sedan cruiser) is a power cruiser with a comfortable cabin large enough to live, eat, and sleep in. A cuddy cabin (cuddy) is the smallest cabin, with barely enough space for people to sit.

To distinguish it from a cuddy boat, it has an open bow area where there are extra seats in front of the helm station.

COMPASS - Instrument using the earth's magneting field to point to the direction to the magnetic north pole.

COURSE - The direction in which a boat is steered.

CROWN - Bottom part of anchor.

CUDDY - A small shelter cabin in a boat.

COCKPIT - An opening in the deck from which the boat is handled.
COIL - To lay a line down in circular turns.
COURSE - The direction in which a boat is steered.
CUDDY - A small shelter cabin in a boat.
CURRENT - The horizontal movement of water.

CROSS-JACK (Pronounced cro-jack) the crossjack yard is the lower yard on the mizzen. CUDDY A small shelter cabin in a boat. CURRENT The horizontal movement of water. CUT-WATER The foremost part of a vessel's prow.

Coamings: Built up sides around the cockpit that prevent water from coming in.
Come About: To change tack when sailing windward.
Centre board: A board that retracts horizontally into a boats hull, adjusting the depth of the keel.
Cuddy: A small ...

Cuddy: Small cabin on a boat, often an emergency shelter or storage space
Cunningham: Device to pull the main sail tighter, in order to flatten and control it ...

A light, fast vessel used by pirates in the Mediterranean for raiding and pillaging crutch A support for the boom when the sails are furled cuddy A small cabin or protective cover over the fore part of the cockpit cumulonimbus Heavy, ...

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 ...

CRUTCH A term applied to a support for a boom. Also applied to the jaw of a boom or gaff. CUDDY A galley structure on deck; a small cabin. CUTWATER The forward edge of the stem at or near the water line is called the cutwater.

See also: Boat, Cabin, Deck, Current, Hull