EASE: To slacken or relieve tension on a line.
EBB TIDE: A receding tide or current.
ENSIGN: The national flag, or ‘colours’ displayed from aft by all yachts.
Ease -To slacken or relieve tension on a line.
Ease Sheet-To let the sheet out slowly loosen a line while maintaining control,
Ebb -- tide passing from high to low, with the current going out to sea ...
ease the helm - The order given when sailing against a head sea to ease the weather helm, and by luffing meet the sea bow on, and at the same time deaden the ship's way so that the sea and ship meet less violently.
ease the sheets - To loosen the lines that control the sails.
ease - To slowly loosen a line while maintaining control, such as when loosening the sails.
east wind, easterly wind - A wind coming from the east.
ease
To slowly loosen a line while maintaining control, such as when loosening the sails.
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Ease: To let out a line under full control, gradually as with a sheet or docking line.
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Ease - To loosen or let out a line.
Fall off - To change the boats direction so as to point farther away from where the wind is coming from.
ease sheet
To let a sheet out, slowly loosening a line while maintaining control.
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Ease - to loosen or let out
Fairlead - a fitting used to change the direction of a line without chafing
Fathom - a measurement relating to the depth of water, one fathom is 6 feet ...
Ease: To let out... as in ease a sheet. (line)
Fairleads: Eyes or blocks that guide lines in a desired direction. Usually they are used for mainsheets and jibsheets on R/C Sailboats.
Foot: Bottom edge of sail.
Ease off - to let out a line slowly, carefully. Can be said to defuse a tense situation.
EASE: To slacken or relieve tension on a line.
EBB TIDE: A receding tide; a period or state of decline.
EVEN KEEL: When a boat is floating on its designed waterline, it is said to be floating on an even keel.
Ease - to loosen or let out
ebb -- tide passing from high to low, with the current going out to sea
El Nino -- a warm inshore current annually flowing south along the coast of Ecuador.
Ease, Ease Off:
To let out a line or sail slowly; to slacken or relieve tension on a line; to take pressure off.
Ease the Sheets:
To let the sheet out slowly while maintaining control.
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Ease- To loosen. To let out the line of a sail.
Ensign- A flag identifying the nationality of a boat.
EASE-To let out the sheet so as to relieve the pressure on the sail and possibly spill some wind.
ENSIGN-A national flag flow on a boat.
FEND-To push off.
Ease off -- To slacken a rope handsomely.
Eyelet holes -- Small holes worked in sails for lacings or lashings to be rove through.
Eyes of the rigging -- Collars spliced in the ends of shrouds to go over the masthead and also over the deadeyes.
To ease or help. A favoring (favorable) wind shift is a lift or other shift in wind direction that allows a boat to sail closer to her destination.
FCC, Federal Communications Commission
The government agency supervising radios and airwaves.
Veer To ease out a cable. A clockwise shift of the wind.
Warping Moving a vessel by means of a hawser.
Weather helm A boat has weather helm when it has a tendency to turn up into the wind.
SLACK The opposite of taut; not fully extended as applied to a rope; to "slack away" means to pay out a rope or cable by carefully releasing the tension while still retaining control; to "slack off" means to ease up, or lessen the degree of tautness.
to latch DRAFT the distance from a vessel's water line to the deepest part of the hull; the depth of water necessary to float a vessel EASE OFF to slack off or release tension slowly and smoothly EYE a loop or hole which is spliced or tied on the ...
PAY OUT: To ease out a line, or let it run in a controlled manner.
PENNANT (sometimes PENDANT): The line by which a boat is made fast to a mooring buoy.
PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICE (PFD) - PDF: Official terminology for life jacket.
Let the wind help you, again if you handle the anchor line properly you will be able to control the boat with ease.
Look back over the years at all the rigs that have been touted as revolutionary and the absolute ticket to 'ease of handling.' And what do we have today?
As you move your bow farther away from the wind, or fall off, toward a close reach, ease your sail to the luff point. Every time you change your course you will need to ease and trim the sails.
It possesses all the qualities of the self-righting and self-bailing life-boats in use in all life-saving institutions, except that of self-righting; and the sacrifice of this quality is largely counteracted by the ease with which it can be righted ...
The primary advantage of adjusting the cunningham is the speed and ease with which the luff tension can be changed while sailing or racing.
4 The chalk residue left behind indicates the high spots. Ease these until the fitting can be pushed into position by a firm hand.
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*To safely add wraps as soon as there is pressure, take the line in one hand and pass it around the winch two or three times allowing the line to ease through your hands as it goes. Don't ease enough to let the line slip on the drum.
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Any physical piece of cargo in relation to transport consisting of the contents and its packing for the purpose of ease of handling by manual or mechanical means.
Slack
1) A line that is loose. 2) To ease a line.
Slide
Also called a lug. Metal or plastic pieces attached to the forward edge of a sail to allow easy hoisting of a sail.
As the gust hits, the apparent wind goes aft causing more heeling and less drive and changing the angle of incidence-the angle the apparent wind makes with the sails-so that the sails are now improperly trimmed unless you head up or ease the sheets ...
Lloyd's Agent when called upon to intervene in case of damage to vessels with a view of granting a certificate of sea damage, has the power to appoint a surveyor, who should sign his certificate as "Surveyor to Lloyd's Agent," and in every ease the ...
swim platform
A wide platform at the transom equipped with a ladder to help ease the effort of reboarding after going into the water.
tack
The lower corner of a sail. Also, each leg of a zigzag course.
Lift: A wind shift during which the wind enters the boat from further back. It allows the helmsman to head up or alter course to windward, or the crew to ease the sheets.
Lines: A nautical term for ropes.
This is probably another quirk in the drafting of those rules rather than the intent. Relaxed enforcement may be used to ease the burden on affected vessels (built between the two dates), ...
resątive-ness noun Usage Note: Restive is properly applied to the impatience or uneasiness induced by external coercion or restriction and is not a general synonym for restless: The government has done nothing to ease export restrictions, ...
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