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HARBOUR: A safe anchorage, protected from most storms; may be natural or man-made, with breakwaters and jetties; a place for docking and loading.
HARD OVER: Turning the wheel as far as possible
HALYARD: A rope used for hoisting a sail.
harbour
An anchorage protected from storms either naturally or by man-made barriers.
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Harbour
Place of shelter for vessels. Most of the time used as an indication for the geographical location.
harbour watch - The watch kept on board a vessel at night when she is riding to an anchor in harbour; the anchor watch. Harbour or Anchor Watches are often 12 or 24 hours in duration allowing the other crew members more time to go ashore.
Harbourmaster: A man in charge of a harbour, authorizing entry, and arranging for Pilots to guide vessels into difficult harbours, past underwater obstructions, etc.
In harbour: All persons should report on board as the vessel is about to proceed to sea.
At sea it may be used by fishing vessels to mean: my nets are caught on an obstruction.
See also: Signals.
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.
limits of any harbour; canal boats and barges without sails or motive power employed entirely within any State; barges and boats on the rivers and lakes of the United States which do not carry passengers and do not trade to any foreign territory.
Asylum Harbour - A harbour used to provide shelter from a storm.
ASW - Anti-submarine warfare.
Athwart, athwartships - At right angles to the fore and aft or centerline of a ship
Avast - Stop! ...
IAPH - International Association of Ports & Harbours
IHMA - International Harbour Masters Association ...
Harbours and inlets often have an inflow or outflow, especially around sunrise and sunset. This is due to rising convection currents and displacement as the land and water are heated by the Sun (or cooling) at different rates.
If we didn't clear the harbour soon we might not be able to leave for days.
Regardless of whether you are new to the pursuit or an old hand at the game, the world of yachting harbours a lexicon as bemusing and alienating as any industry any where in the world.
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(b) Nothing in these Rules shall interfere with the operation of special rules made by an appropriate authority for roadsteads, harbours, rivers, lakes or inland waterways connected with the high seas and navigable by seagoing vessels.
Yacht races may be over a simple course of only a few miles, as in the harbour racing of the International One Design; long-distance, open-ocean races, like the Bermuda Race; or epic trans-global contests such as the Global Challenge, ...
AM Radio: 620 AM, with broadcast at 0650
FM Radio: 93.9 FM, with news and weather usually on the hour and/or the half-hour.
VHF Radio: Ch. 06 at 0900 (English Harbour Radio)
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JACOBS LADDER - A rope ladder, lowered from the deck, as when pilots or passengers come aboard.
JETTY - A structure projecting out from the shore; a jetty may protect a harbour entrance.
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PORT The left side of a boat looking forward. A harbour. PRIVELEGED VESSEL A vessel which, according to the applicable Navigation Rule, has right-of-way (this term has been superseded by the term "stand-on").
port -- the left side of the boat; also a harbour
Port tack - sailing with the wind coming from the port side, with the boom on the starboard side
Port: The left side of a boat (when looking forward).
Captains and owners preferred to use the lowest supportable figure, as, it was upon tonnage that the assessment of dues and charges upon entering harbour were made.
Also a tremendous assist when approaching an unfamiliar harbour with a hard-to-find entrance, or entering or leaving an anchorage at night.
Wind instruments (vane and speed) and depth sounder.
During wartime coast guards might be responsible for harbour defense, port security, naval counterintelligence and coastal patrols.
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Lumper - Man employed in unloading ships in harbour, or in taking a ship from one port to another. Paid "lump" sum for services.
Lurch - Sudden and long roll of a ship in a seaway.
 See also: Point, Deck, Top, Sailing, Boat
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