EBB TIDE: A receding tide or current.
ENSIGN: The national flag, or ‘colours’ displayed from aft by all yachts.
EVEN KEEL: When a boat is floating on its designed waterline, it is said to be floating on an even keel.
Ebb Tide
A receding tide.
EPIRB
Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. An emergency device that uses a radio signal to alert satellites or passing airplanes to a vessel's position.
Ebb TideA receding tide.
Even KeelWhen a boat is floating on its designed waterline, it is said to be floating on an even keel.
Eye Of The WindThe direction from which the wind is blowing.
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.
EYE OF THE WIND: The direction from which the wind is blowing.
ebb, ebb tide - The falling tide when the water moves out to the sea and the water level lowers.
Ebb tide
The portion of the tide cycle between high water and the following low water. It is sometimes called "falling tide".
Eddy ...
Ebb tide: A receding tide.
Entrance: The area of a bow that first meets the water.
Ensign: A nautical version of the national flag of a country usually flown at the stern. -The rank of a officer equivalent to that of midshipman.
ebb: tide passing from high to low, with the current going out to sea the tidal movement of water away from the land and toward the sea, as in ebb current; the falling of the water level from high tide to low tide, as in ebb tide.
A period of almost no water movement between flood and ebb tides
Slide
Also called a lug. Metal or plastic pieces attached to a sail's luff that slide in a mast track to allow easy hoisting of a sail.
stream - The direction of the flood tide and ebb tide.
stretch - A course sailed. Also the elasticity of canvas or line.
strike - To lower, as to strike the topmast. Also to strike the ground when sailing.
The flood tide is the rising, incoming tide when the tide floods (is on the flood, is flooding). Contrarily, the ebb tide is the falling, outgoing tide when the tide ebbs (is on the ebb, is ebbing).
If a bar harbour has to be entered on a flood tide a boat could discharge oil so that it would run in ahead of her. On an ebb tide, the oil could be distributed by some apparatus in connection with the shore.
A rising flood tide creates currents moving inland and a falling ebb tide causes outbound currents. The direction of the current reverses at each peak of high or low tide, called a turn.
 See also: Boat, Wind, Tide, Eye, Ebb
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