Flashing
Danger: The distance between lights on barges may be so far that an unaware boater hits the vessel broadside.
flashing - Used to describe a light that blinks on and off in regular patterns.
flotsam - Debris floating on the water surface.
following sea - A sea with waves approaching from the stern of the boat.
flashing - A light that is "on" less than it is "off" in a regular sequence of single flashes.
flat aback - In square rigged ships when all the yards are trimmed across the ship, with the wind ahead so as to produce sternway.
Flashing Light:
Used to describe a light that blinks on and off, where the period of light is shorter than the period of darkness separating the flashes.
Flatten In:
To trim the sheets in.
quick flashing light
A navigational aid with a light that flashes about once per second.
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flashing
Describes a light on a buoy or lighthouse that automatically turns on and off at regular intervals. Compare with fixed.
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Flashing Buoy - Determine its position on chart using flash color and sequence
Flemish - To coil excess line in a spiral on the deck or dock
Float Plan - A plan given to a responsible person on shore of your intended cruise or destination ...
A flashing light is used only on air-cushion vehicles and is yellow. The flash charcteristic was chosen to distinguish the light from the slower flashing of many lighted aids to navigation (buoys and markers).
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(f) "Flashing light" means a light flashing at regular intervals at a frequency of 120 flashes or more per minute.
Rule 22
Visibility of lights ...
flashing: description of a light-fixed on a navigation aid-that flashes on and off. The period of light is always briefer than the period of darkness.
"Special flashing light" shall mean a yellow light flashing at regular intervals at a frequency of 50 to 70 flashes per minute, ...
During the night, if you are sound asleep, you might become aware of it only when you hear other people screaming and flashing lights at your boat.. Wake up your crew and get on deck immediately. Start your engine and keep it idling.
This includes a full pack of emergency flares, including red rockets and flares, orange smoke and white flares, two life-buoys -- one, preferably, with a flashing light.
if it carries a top mark, the top mark is a single red cone, pointing upward;
if it carries a light, the light is red and is a flashing (F1) 4 s or quick flashing (Q) 1 s;
if the buoy does not carry a light, it has a pointed top.
Simulates all types of flashing lights on all types of boats.smart a.b.s. Case and running on 12v.dc. FL3: adjustable flasher module, same as fl2 but with an adjustable flash rate control, to vary the frequency of the flash.smart a.b.s.
The "General Emergency Alarm" is 7 short and 1 long beep or whistle, which is sounded by the ship's horn and, in most cases, by the ship's internal alarm (such as bells or Klaxons; accompanied with flashing strobe lights in corridors and public areas ...
In English Bay there is a lighthouse at Point Atkinson, buoys to mark the beaches, fixed markers for the low tide shoals at Spanish Banks and solar powered flashing beacons at the mouth of False Creek with red right returning and green to port.
The outward curve or slant of a boat's sides, from bilge to deck line flashing light 1. A chart symbol that shows one or more flashes at regular intervals, the duration of the light always being more or less the duration of darkness; 2.
 See also: Light, Boat, Top, Navigation, Line
  
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