Safety Gear
Safety Equipment you should be thinking about
Personal Gear - Life Jackets, tethers, strobes, harnesses, jacklines ...
Starting in Gear - The boat’s engine is started with the transmission in forward or reverse.
Steel hull - Hulls of sheet steel or steel alloy, not those with steel ribs and wood, canvas, or plastic hull coverings.
GEAR: A general term for ropes, blocks, tackle and other equipment.
GENOA : Front sail, usually larger than a jib.
GIVE-WAY VESSEL: A term used to describe the vessel which must yield in meeting, crossing, or overtaking situations.
Snorkeling equipment: You'll want to buy both snorkeling gear and a mask. This allows you to swim at length and explore the area where you've docked. Make sure you know how to use this type of sailing gear before you leave the store.
gear
All equipment used for sailing except the boat itself; rather a commercial than a nautical term; read our gear checklist
gel coat ...
Gear - A general term for ropes, blocks, tackle and other equipment.
Give-Way Vessel - A term used to describe the vessel that must yield in meeting, crossing, or overtaking situations.
Gear:
A general term for ropes, blocks, tackle, equipment, instruments, riggings, any apparatus used aboard ship; clothing and other personal items taken aboard ship
Gel Coat:
The outer resin surface of a fiberglass boat, usually colored.
chafing gear - Tape, cloth or other materials placed on one or more parts that rub together. By using chafing gear, hopefully the chafing gear will wear rather than the parts that it is protecting.
chain locker - Storage for the anchor chain.
Chafing Gear: Anything used to prevent chafe
Clinch or Clench: To secure a fastener by bending down the end that protrudes through the pieces to be fastened.
Close-Hauled: Sailing as close to the wind as possible, or nearly so.
chafing gear - Tape, tubing, cloth or other material fastened around an object, used to protect a line from chafing on a rough surface.
chain - Interlocking links (made of steel or iron); may be used for rigging and anchor lines.
gear
Boating equipment and clothing small and portable enough to be removed from the boat. While a mast and a tuna tower are not gear, a masthead fly and a fishing rod are. Foul-weather gear is clothing specific to boating.
Gear and things to have on the ready:
Stern lines coiled and ready to deploy freely.
The anchor person has to make sure the anchor chain is going to deploy freely, without snags. Not a good time to have one of those! ...
Gear for Hauling Out Loose-footed Mainsail
Luncheon in the Cock-pit
Scowing an Anchor ...
Gear
The general name for all nonpermanent nautical equipment, including crew's clothing and personal effects.
Genoa Jib ...
GEAR - A general term for ropes, blocks, tackle and other equipment.
GIVE-WAY VESSEL - A term used to describe the vessel which must yield in meeting, crossing, or overtaking situations.
GPH - Gallons per hour of fuel consumption.
The gear on offshore yachts can be very heavy. Sails have to be set and tensioned by means of winches and considerable strength and stamina is often required.
Chafe gear -- gear used to prevent damage by rubbing
Cam cleat- A mechanical cleat used to hold a lineline automatically. It uses two spring loaded cams that come together to clamp their teeth on the line, ...
pinion gear
plate
A smooth, flat, relatively thin piece of metal formed in sheets by beating, rolling or casting; used in the construction of ship's hulls. (back) ...
Chafing Gear - Tubing or cloth wrapping used to protect a line from chafing on a rough surface.
Chain plate - The fitting used to attach stays to the hull.
Charley Noble - Galley stove pipe ...
Secure all gear in the vessel firmly and arrange it so the weight is evenly distributed in the vessel.
Properly secure the vessel with several tie-down straps and/or safety lines to prevent it from shifting.
Protective Gear (Heat Resistant / Ballistics):
flame-resistant clothing
protective clothing and helmets
Anti-cut or heat resistant gloves
sporting goods
fabrics
body armor ...
Self Steering Gear
A device used to keep a sailboat on the same heading relative to the wind without aid of a person. Self steering gear is a mechanical system using a wind vane instead of electrical power as does an autopilot.
Semaphore ...
foul-weather gear
Jacket, pants and hat used during inclement weather.
founder
To sink.
If the fishing gear extends over 150 meters (492 feet) from the boat, an all-around white light must indicate the direction.
Chafe gear -- gear used to prevent damage by rubbing
Chronmeter - Ships clock
Cam cleat- A mechanical cleat used to hold a lineline automatically. It uses two spring loaded cams that come together to clamp their teeth on the line, ...
chafe gear: gear used to prevent damage by rubbing. chain plate: metal fitting to hold the shrouds the fitting used to attach stays to the hull. chainplates: metal plates bolted to the boat which standing rigging is attached to.
chafe gear -- gear used to prevent damage by rubbing
Chain plate The fitting used to attach stays to the hull.
Chine - A line, running along the side of the boat, where the bottom forms an angle to the side.
Ground Tackle - Gear used for anchoring
Grounded - If grounded: - check for leaks - check tide status - check motor inlets make soundings all around the boat - reverse can push sand around the keel set up kedging anchor - try rocking boat or shifting ...
Wear the right gear
Good sunglasses, appropriate clothing, and the necessary paddles, whistles and flares are the right gear too.
Boat Sober! ...
trapeze - Wire gear enabling a crewmember to place all of his weight outboard of the hull, thus helping to keep the boat level.
trapezium - A four-sided figure with two sides or foot and head parallel, as a ship's square sail.
chafe gear -- gear used to prevent damage by rubbing
Chichester -- Sir Francis Chichester, the great English sailor who authored the terrific books Alone Across the Atlantic and Gypsy Moth Circles the Globe ...
cardinal point The four main points on a compass (north, south, east, west) carline, carlin, or carling A short timber running fore and aft between deck beams carry away When any part of a vessel's gear or equipment breaks or ...
of wall BULWARKS fence-like guard along edge of deck BUNK bed, berth BUOY floats of a variety of designs and shapes, usually moored, used as navigational aids, markers for moorings or underwater objects, or to support test or scientific gear CAPSTAN ...
Baggywrinkle: chafing gear made from old ropes.
Ballast: Either pigs of iron, stones, or gravel, which last is called single ballast; and their use is to bring the ship down to her bearings in the water which her provisions and stores will not do.
CHAFING PLATE A plate fitted to take the wear due to dragging moving gear or to protect ropes from wearing where they rub on sharp edges. Also fitted on decks under anchor chains.
Ground Tackle - gear used for anchoring.
Gunwale - the top edge of a boat's hull.
GWL - gunwale length
Hatch - window mounted horizontally in the cabin roof.
Head - a boat's toilet; or the top corner of the sail.
GEAR - A general name for ropes, blocks, tackle and other equipment used with our aboard a boat.
GIVE-WAY BOAT - One that does not have the right-of-way and should avoid the stand-on boat.
GROUND TACKLE - An anchor and anchoring gear.
Bulletproof system, no furling gear to jam, and easy to remove and switch to storm jib.
Sails: Storm jib. For use on the inner forestay (replacing the staysail) in storm situations--the Tayana 37' heaves to well with this configuration.
Sailing Rig: Pretty much all gear on a boat that is of immediate use for sailing it except the boat itself - sails, booms and masts, lines and wires.
SEAWORTHY - A boat or a boat's gear able to meet the usual sea conditions.
SECURE - To make fast.
SEIZING - To fasten two ropes or parts of a rope together, or to attach a rope to something else by binding with yarn or similar material.
The gear was fitted on a yacht of about 230 tons displacement, the moving weight being 8 tons; and the net effect in this case was to reduce the rolling by about one-half.
fighting chairA fix-mounted chair used to help land large gamefish on bluewater fishing boats equipped with a footrest, gimbal-mounted rod holder, safety harness and other fish-fighting gear.
If you take all the gear people seem to find essential for cruising you will find that much of it weighs the same regardless of whether the boat is 38 feet or 54 feet.
(See DEEP VEE, BOTTOM SHAPE) V-DRIVE A gear box that reverses the direction of the drive train to allow the use of a standard prop shaft and prop with a rear mounted motor. See drawing below.
Never trust reverse gear to stop you in time if the boat is moving too fast.
If you turn the engine to port, say, (engine handle to starboard, engine in reverse gear) the rudder will tend to flop to starboard (helm a-port), and oppose the engine.
To see if the load/discharge gear is large and high enough to reach the hatches. As the size of the ships increased faster than the size of the berth, this is often a problem.
Reverse gear often does little to slow the boat and will usually swing the stern to one side or another due to prop-walk.
When outlying fishing gear extends more than 150 meters from the vessel, an all-round white light must be displayed in the direction of that gear.
(a) The light indicating the direction of the outlying gear from a vessel engaged in fishing as prescribed in Rule 26(c)(ii) shall be placed at a horizontal distance of not less than 2 metres and not more than 6 metres away from the two all-round red ...
A road semi-trailer with retractable running gear to allow mounting on a pair of rail boogies. Synonym: Road-Rail trailer
A trailer which is able to carry different types of standardized unit loads, (e.g.
Through whatever piece of gear provided for use in this kind of emergency, life ring, cushions, life jackets, float flag or any buoyant object. Anything is better than nothing. What ever is thrown should hit the water close the victim.
Carry Away: To break loose, said of gear that is stressed beyond the strength of its fastenings.
Carvel: Smooth skin planking.
Cast Off: To loose, unfasten; to undo all mooring lines in preparation ...
Change and fill lower unit gear lube.
Inspect fuel lines, primer bulb and connections for leaks.
Lubricate and spray all moveable parts.
Check prop for dings and bends.
Check steering and control cables or power steering system and fluid.
Coast Guard safety package
Basic safety gear required by federal law consisting of personal flotation device, throwable flotation device, visible distress signals, fire extinguisher and a horn, whistle or bell.
Ground tackle
The anchor and its rode or chain and any other gear used to hold a boat securely in place.
Gudgeon
A socket the pintle (pin or bolt used as a pivot) of the rudder sits in.
Automatic pilot: an instrument designed to control automatically a vessel's steering gear so that it follows a pre-determined track through the water.
Awo: American waterway operators.
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The central support for the sail or lifting gear
Master
Commissioned officer charged with physically sailing the ship.
SELF-UNLOADER A bulk carrier which is equipped with gear for unloading cargo
SHORT TON 907.18 kg
SID SD Single decker ...
Jury-rig: Emergency rigging with available gear, usually due to a broken mast.
 See also: Below, Boat, Sailing, Sail, Line
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