Flemish Coil-A flat neat concentric coiling of rope.
Cleat - A wood or metal fitting with two horn around which ropes are made fast.
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Flemish Knot
Flotsam
Floating goods lost by shipwreck or thrown overboard.
flemish - To coil a rope in a spiral on a flat surface; may be for a mat or appearance.
flinders bar - A soft iron bar, in/on the binnacle; used to compensate for compass error (resulting from vertical magnetism in a steel-hulled vessel).
Flemish Down:
to make a Flemish coil by taking the end of a line and laying it in a tight flat spiral on the deck. Used to "tidy" up and keep line neat ...
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
Flood - Incoming tide ...
Flemish Down - To lay down the unused portion of a rope or line in a fancy manner similar to figure-of-eights, ready to run out without kinking.* ...
Get into the habit of coiling your lines when they are not in use, and flemishing any lose ends on deck or dock.
The person working on the yardarm has a separate footrope known as the flemish horse.
 See also: Rope, Shroud, Feet, Heading, Standing
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