DEAD ASTERN: Directly aft.
DEAD RECKONING: A plot of courses steered and distances travelled through the water.
DEADHEAD: A log or heavy timber floating nearly vertical, with little of it's bulk showing above the surface.
Dead Astern - Directly aft.
Displacement - The weight of water displaced by a floating vessel, thus, a boat's weight.
dead astern - Directions exactly behind the vessel; opposite direction of dead ahead.
dead calm - Without a breath of wind.
Dead Astern:
A position directly aft or behind the vessel.
Dead on End:
Said of wind when exactly ahead; and of another vessel when her fore and aft line coincides with observer's line of sight.
DEAD ASTERN - Directly aft.
DECK - A permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part thereof.
DINGHY - A small open boat. A dinghy is often used as a tender for a larger craft.
DEAD ASTERN- Directly aft.
DEADRISE- Measurement of the angle between the bottom of the vessel and it's widest beam. A vessel with a 0` deadrise has a flat bottom, high numbers indicate deep V shaped hulls.
Dead Astern - Directly aft.
Dead-Eyes - Blocks in the shroud rigging used to adjust tension
Deadlight - Either a cover clamped over a porthole to protect it in heavy weather or a fixed light set into the deck or cabin roof to provide light below.
without accommodations, rigging, or equipment needed for sailing or bunking in overnight day's work A record of noon-to-noon navigation work used to determine a ship's position dead ahead Directly ahead of the boat's course dead astern ...
Dead astern-Directly aft or behind.
Dead reckoning-A calculation of determining position by using course speed last known position
DEADEYE A block with three hole in use to receive the laniard of a shroud or a stay to adjust tension.
Dead Astern - Directly aft.
Dead Reckoning - The process of determining the position of a vessel at any instant by applying to the last well-determined position (point of departure or subsequent fix) the run that has since been made, ...
Dead Astern: A position directly aft or behind the vessel. Deadhead: A floating log.
Deadrise: The angle between the bottom of a boat and its widest beam. - A vessel with a 0º deadrise has a flat bottom, high numbers indicate deep V shaped hulls.
Dead Astern: Straight aft direction.
Deadlight: Fixed light in a cabin's roof.
Deck: Solid covering over a hull, does not always cover all of it
Depression: Low-pressure area in meteorology ...
DEAD ASTERN - Directly aft.
DEADEYES - A round, laterally flattened wooden block, pierced with three holes through which a lanyard is reeved, used for extending the shrouds.
DEAD ASTERN Directly aft. DEAD-RISE The difference in height, if any, between those parts of a vessel's floor which rest on the futtock. DECK A permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part thereof. DECKHEAD The underside of the deck above.
DEAD ASTERN - Directly aft.
DEAD RECKONING - Navigating
DECK - A permanent covering over a compartment, hull or any part thereof.
DINGHY - A small open boat. A dinghy is often used as a tender for a larger craft.
As the wind shifts from dead astern and comes on the other quarter, carrying the boom over, ease off the sheet handsomely and take care to meet her promptly with the helm as she flies to, which is invariably the case.
 See also: Hull, Light, Deck, Dead ahead, Sailing
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