"Heave To" Maneuver
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HEAVE TO: To bring a vessel up in a position where it will maintain little or no headway, usually with the head sail backed and the boat sitting at 90 degrees (beam on) to the wind.
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to stop forward movement by bringing the vessel's bow into the wind and keeping it there
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Heave To - to stop a boat and maintain position (with some leeway) by balancing rudder and sail to prevent forward movement, a boat stopped this way is "hove to"
Helm - the tiller or wheel, and surrounding area ...
Heave to- To turn the bow of the boat into the wind and keep it there, so that the boat lies almost still.
Heel- The lateral tilting of a boat in motion, due to wind, sometimes to waves.
Heave to A sailing vessel is hove to when a headsail is backed thus reducing the way through the water.
Heaving line Light line, knotted on end to throw ashore when berthing, as a messenger for a larger mooring line.
heave to - To so trim a vessel's sails aback that she does not move ahead. The same as "lie to" or "lay to" as sailors call it. If the gale be a fair one the ship usually scuds before it; if a foul one she heaves to.
HEAVE TO-To stop a vessel's progress by putting out a sea anchor or drogue, or hauling a headsail to windward.
HEAVING LINE-Line with a weighted end to facilitate throwing it ashore or to another vessel.
Heave to -- To so trim a vessel's sails that she does not move ahead.
Heel rope -- The rope by which a running bowsprit is hauled out or a topmast lowered.
Hoist -- The length of the luff of a fore-and-aft sail.
Lie-to - see Heave to.
Pong - a powerful smell.
Port - 1) an inhabited harbor with facilities for visiting ships. 2) the left-hand side of the ship when facing forward. (See also Larboard.) ...
HEADWAY the forward motion of the ship under power HEAVE vertical motion of the center of the ship HEAVE TO to reduce the power until the ship is just maintaining steerage with little or no headway, e.g.
To hold your position in a storm, you can heave to. Let your mainsail all the way out so it luffs, pull your jib in on the windward side across the mast, and tie the tiller loosely so it's immobilized on the leeward side.
To throw heave away To cast away, as in heave away a dock line heave in To haul in heave short To haul in on a cable until the vessel is nearly over her anchor heave taut To haul in on a line is taut with strain heave to To ...
Have him read and try to do chart work.
Give him some alcohol.
Have the crew member in the cockpit and looking to the horizon.
Instruct the other crew members to heave too.
 See also: Below, Boat, Heave, Forward, Rope
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