Dry dock: an enclosed basin into which a ship is taken for underwater cleaning and repairing. It is fitted with water tight entrance gates which when closed permit the dock to be pumped dry.
But if your dock is fixed and you are gone from the boat an hour or more, a water level change could strain a tight dock line to the point of ripping cleats from the dock or the boat"and setting your boat adrift.
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DOCK: A protected water area in which vessels are moored. The term is often used to denote a pier or a wharf.
DOCKING: The procedure for coming alongside a wharf or jetty.
DODGER: Protective cover over the cockpit area of the Vessel.
Dock Landing Ship
Dogvane
A small banner to show the relative direction of the wind.
dock
An platform where vessels can make fast. The act of securing a boat in such a place. Docks are often subdivided into smaller areas for docking known as slips.
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Dock - the area a boat rests in when attached to a pier, also the act of taking the boat to the pier to secure it
Downhaul - a line, attached to the tack, that adjusts tension in the sail ...
Dock Bumpers
Cushioning devices (rubber, plastic, wood, etc.) mounted at the extreme rear of a chassis or trailer to take the impact when it backs into a loading dock or platform (road cargo).
dock - An enclosed or protected water area where boats can be moored; the planking surrounding a boat's slip; a pier, or wharf.
dockyards - Places where ships are built ; usually, however, confined to Government yards.
- Dock Lines are used to Moor (connect / fasten) or Make Fast a boat to a dock (dock lines) or a permanent mooring (mooring lines) like a pile, pier, wharf, or buoy field. Most often the connecting points are cleats, but not always.
Dry dock
A dock where a boat can be worked on out of the water. The boat is usually sailed into a dry dock, and then the water is pumped out.
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Technically, the water in which a boat sits when she is tied to a float, pier, or wharf. However, the term usually is used to mean the float, pier, or wharf itself. To dock is to pull in to or alongside a dock.
Dock the boat securely and ask all passengers to exit.
Do not allow anyone to smoke or strike a match.
Check all fuel lines, connections, and fuel vents.
Turn off anything that might cause a spark—engines, fans, or electrical equipment.
Dock
The area of water in which a boat rests between two landing piers or wharves.
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At Dock - Secured to a fixed or floating structure; but excludes while being fueled.
Being Towed - In the tow of another vessel.
Approach dock slowly, and throw engine in neutral or reverse, to drift in the last 10 feet or so. Have crew ready to jump ashore on your command, with mooring line in hand, and have them haul in and belay as soon as they arrive on the dock.
Leaving a dock or coming into one can be a display of good seamanship. Or it can turn out to be an experience of major embarrassment or, worse, of boat damage.
Leaving a dock or berth - 1 prolonged blast
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Untie from dock and cast off.
Proper fueling techniques also keep our water clean and safe, and help marine life thrive in a healthier environment.
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To leave a dock in a motor boat demands some forethought. If other boats are nearby, the throttle bar (gas control handle) can be moved in the direction of the dock and the boat backed out in reverse.
Leaving the dock at the Racine Riverside Marine on the Root River in Wisconsin, the 20-horsepower Yanmar diesel and fixed, three-blade prop provided plenty of reverse power as we backed out into the channel.
If you plan to dock in a foreign port (e.g., Canada or the Bahamas) or if you communicate with foreign coast or ship stations, ...
DD Dry Dock
Every two or three years, the ship has to be put in a dry dock in order to check all the submerged parts, repaint them, eventually remove the propeller and the tailshaft. DEMDES Demurrage/Despatch money ...
A boat in a dry dock.
Land Breeze
A wind moving from the land to the water due to temperature changes in the evening.
Before leaving the dock everyone on board should know what to do in an man overboard emergency. When a crew member accidentally falls overboard or has been knocked into the water, each person onboard should automatically perform their prearrange duty.
SHORES Pieces of timber placed in a vertical or inclined position to support some part of a ship, or the ship itself, during construction or while in dry dock.
wooden float use between dock and ship.
Can Bouy - A cylindrical buoy painted green and having an odd number used in the United States as a navigational aid
Can Hooks - Two flat hooks running freely on a wire or chain sling.
and shapes, usually moored, used as navigational aids, markers for moorings or underwater objects, or to support test or scientific gear CAPSTAN a revolving cylindrical device used for heaving in lines CAST OFF to let go a line; to leave a dock or ...
The dock or anchorage occupied by a boat; 2. A place where a person sleeps bight 1. The middle part of a line not including the bitter end; 2. A loop in a rope or a bend in the shoreline.
wood, that is filled with water and sunk under a vessel. When water is pumped out, the buoyancy of camel lifts ship. Usually employed in pairs. At one time were usual means of lifting a vessel over a bar or sandbank. 2) Wooden float use between dock ...
slip: a narrow berth for a boat, either at a pier or dock. sloop: a sailboat with a single mast that is stepped not more than one third of the way aft from the bow. A sloop usually carries only one headsail.
After bow spring line- A mooring line fixed to the bow of the boat and leading aft where it is attached to the dock. This prevents the boat from moving forward in its berth.
At the dock with a bow line and stern line tied off, a spring line is often added to limit the working movements of a floating vessel even more.
sprit -- a spar that extends the bow of the boat
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DOCK - The area of water between two landing piers. Also used to denote a pier or wharf.
DRAFT - The depth a vessel sinks when afloat, as measured vertically from the water line to the lowest point.
fenderA cylindrical or round cushion used to protect the hull sides of a boat, typically used when tied up at dock. fetchTo clear a buoy, point of land or object without having to make a tack.
It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, anchors or dock lines.
Painter - a line tied to the bow of a small boat for the purpose of securing it to a dock or to the shore
pareau -- (traditional Polynesian one-piece wrap); also lava lava [Samoan and Hawaiian];
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Two sets of experiments were made - (i.) under a hogging moment when supported in dock on two cradles 10 ft. wide, spaced 26 ft.
We put out from a dock at Perth-Amboy in the afternoon, with a cloudless sky and a soft, sweet summer zephyr blowing. There was one other of my sex aboard and he told me he perfectly understood the handling of a boat.
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, so that she may be laid in dock at all times when the same shall be ...
When leaving a dock in a cruising boat under power, one often sees the new owner try to swing the bow out too sharply.
If your boat is left at a dock you will need to develop a plan to secure your boat using more, longer and larger lines than normal. These lines will actually suspend your boat away from damaging contact with other structures.
*Finally, it may be necessary to back the engine down as you get close to the dock, letting the wind take you in to the dock.
In the more usual, commercial vessel, the rig has the advantage of freeing the cargo hatch of obstructions such as the boom but its overriding advantage is met in manoeuvring in very confined waters such as a crowded dock or canal.
(g) When a power-driven vessel is leaving a dock or berth, she shall sound one prolonged blast.
Paragraph (g) provides a signal (the same as paragraph (e)'s blind-bend signal) for vessels getting underway from a dock or berth.
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Not at this time. We will give you a dock orientation on driving the boat or SeaDoo safely.
+How old do you have to be to drive a boat or SeaDoo?
You must be age of minority and in British Columbia that is 19 years old.
Berth: a) The place where you but the boat on a dock. b) bunk or sleeping quarters.
Bilge: The lowest part of a boat's hull.
Block: A deck or track-mounted pulley device through which ropes such as jib and genoa sheets are strung.
Spring A mooring rope to prevent a vessel moving fore and aft when tied up alongside a dock , e.g. after spring is attached to the stern of the vessel and led to a bollard on the dock forward of the vessel to prevent it moving astern.
Berth - a. space needed to move a ship around; b. the dock or pier; c. you cabin
Berth - a sufficient distance for maneuvering a ship, the place where a ship lies when at anchor, a place to sit or sleep
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Marina: A place, essentially a dock area, where small recreational craft are kept; usually floats or piers, as well as service facilities, are available.
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Cast off
To detach mooring lines, as when leaving a dock.
Catamaran
A twin-hulled boat. Catamaran sailboats are known for their ability to plane and are faster than single-hulled boats (monohulls) in some conditions.
Slip- A mooring at dock.
Sloop- a boat with a single mast set forward.
Sound- To measure the depth of water by means of a lead line or echo sounder.
A thick post supporting or mooring a dock or pier. It is deep inside the seabed, and it projects above the water level.
Pmiz
The longest reach of the mizzen along its mast.
MOOR-To secure a vessel to an object such as a dock or buoy.
PINTLE-Metal braces or hooks upon which the rudder of a boat swings.
POINT-To sail as close as possible to the wind.
Make Fast - Securing a boat at a dock or landing. You don’t tie up a boat
Make Way - To propel yourself through the water (what some boat mechanics do at the singles bar) ...
Twisted nylon 3/8" line with a loop spliced at one end used to tie the boat to the dock.
Bow plate
Chrome plated cast brass fitting at the bow through which the jib tack and forestay extension wires pass; incorporates an eye for tie-up.
Painter: A line in the bows of a boat, used to make fast to a dock or other object, and for light towing.
Port: The side of a boat or ship that is to your left went facing the bow. Also known as larboard.
cleat
Hardware piece on a boat or a dock to which lines are attached.
clew
The after-most corner of a sail.
The name "port" derives from the fact that steering was originally done from the right-hand side of the boat (see starboard, so the other side was put to the dock or "port". Starboard The right-hand side of the boat when facing forward.
We wanted lifejackets that could be worn comfortably on the deck as well as the dock. They had to be lifejackets rather than just (50 Newton) buoyancy aids, as we would be spending time at sea. But which type of modern jacket to choose?
Underway
Not at anchor, aground or attached to the dock or shore.
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