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FOUNDER: when a vessel fills with water and sinks.
FRAP: (verb) To use a small line to hold an external halyard away from the mast by tying it to the shrouds. This is done to stop noise and chafe.

 


founder
To sink.
four-cycle engine
A gasoline- or diesel-powered internal combustion engine that takes four cycles or strokes of the piston to complete its power phase. Also called four-stroke engine.

Founder
Used to describe a boat that is having difficulty remaining afloat.
Foul
When a line ends up somewhere it does not belong and becomes jammed. Lines can foul on blocks, winches and other objects on a boat.

FounderWhen a vessel fills with water and sinks.
FreeboardThe minimum vertical distance from the surface of the water to the gunwale.
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founder - To sink; the going down of a ship.
fractional rig - A rig where the sloop's jib does not reach the top of its mast, but instead to a point 3/4~ 7/8ths, etc., of the way up the mast.

Founder:
When a vessel fills with water and sinks.
Fo'c'sle:
Forecastle, also spelled fo'c's'le , originally meant the upper deck of a sailing ship, forward of the foremast ...

Founder - To sink below the surface of the water.
Freeboard - The vertical distance between the waterline and the top of the deck.
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Founder's syndrome is an issue organizations face as they grow. Dynamic founders with a strong vision of how to operate the project try to retain control over the organization, ...

Mark Fry is the Founder and President of International Yachtmaster Training, which trains approximately 52% of the world's professional yacht crew.

His ship foundered and he was condemned to go on sailing eternally in his attempt to reach Table Bay. There was a superstition among sailors that anyone who set eyes upon this "ghost ship" would die by shipwreck.

When Steve Colgate, Olympic sailor and founder of Offshore Sailing School, decided to update his vast fleet of Solings in 1996, he knew just what he wanted.

After standing by till near nightfall with no prospect of the storm moderating, the commander of the Martha Cobb determined to make an effort to save the crew of the fast foundering craft.

Old English for capsize or founder.
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Unfortunately side damage due to collision also occurs and they can bring a dramatic quick foundering of the vessel. (MINERAL DAMPIER after being rammed by the HANJIN MADRAS). COFR Certificate Of Financial Responsibility (USA) ...

The Ark Royal saw active service from Nov-1938 Nov-1941. She was torpedoed 13 Nov 1941 by the German submarine U81 in the Western Mediterranean, 25nm ESE of Gibraltar and foundered the following day.
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Elsewhere, other workers have treated lakes as waterbodies of 5 ha and above, or 8 hectares and above (see defintions of pond). Charles Elton, one of the founders of ecology, regarded lakes as waterbodies of 40 hectares or more, ...

FOULED - Any piece of equipment that is jammed or entangled, or dirtied.
FOUNDER - when a vessel fills with water and sinks.
FREEBOARD - The minimum vertical distance from the surface of the water to the gunwale.

FOUNDER To sink as the result of entrance of water. FRAME A term generally used to designate one of the transverse ribs that make up the skeleton of a ship.

See also: Boat, Hull, Line, Keel, Feet