INBOARD: More toward the centre of a vessel; inside; a motor fitted inside a boat.
INBOARD ENGINE: An engine mounted inside the hull, connected to the propeller by a propeller shaft.
(IN) IRONS: Boat is pointing into the wind, ...
irons - In irons. A sailboat with its bow pointed directly into the wind, preventing the sails from filling properly so that the boat can move. It can be very difficult to get a boat that is in irons back under sail.
Irons, In: Up in the wind and unable to pay off on either tack. A sailboat that loses headway [and therefore steerageway] when attempting to come about is said to be "in irons" or "in stays".
Irons A vessel is in irons when caught head to wind and unable to pay off on either tack.
Isophase Navigation light where duration of light and dark are equal.
in irons
All way lost when attempting to tack. The boat is pointing into the wind with the sails flapping, but it will not pay off on to either tack by its own momentum and is temporarily out of control.
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In Irons - having turned onto the wind or lost the wind, stuck and unable to make headway
Jib - a foresail, a triangle shaped sail forward of the mast
Jibe - a change of tack while going downwind ...
In Irons: The condition when the boat is pointed directly into the wind without forward movement or the ability to steer.
Jib Boom, Jib Club: The spar to which the foot of the jib is attached, usually only seen on R/C Sailboats. See boom also.
in irons - A sailboat that loses headway, thus losing the ability to steer.
in wale - The clamp or strake of timber inside the top strake of a small boat, generally termed the gunwale.
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In irons- The nose of the boat is directly in the wind and all forward motion has stopped.
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Jib- A triangular sail that is set before the foremast, that does not overlap the mainsail.
IN IRONS-A boat in the wind's eye which, having lost all headway, will not go off on either tack.
JIB-A triangular sail set forward of the mast.
In irons -- The condition of a vessel head to wind and with way lost, unable to pay off on one tack or the other.
Irish pennants -- Loose ropes flying in the breeze or dangling over the side.
In Irons
A boat is said to be in irons if it has stopped head to wind.
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In Irons: A sailboat with its bow pointed directly into the wind, preventing the sails from filling properly and stopping the boat.
Caught in irons. If you turn the boat too slowly, or try to tack without having enough boat speed, the boat may stall and stop when it faces the wind, called being in irons.
An engine that is mounted within the hull in irons When a boat's bow is in the wind's eye and, having lost all headway, ...
The action of turning into the wind to come about drops the boats speed, and if you don't have enough speed going into the tack you may end up in irons-- nose into the wind, sails flapping uselessly.
In Irons - When the bow of a sailboat is headed into the wind and the boat has stalled and is unable to maneuver
In the offing - In the water visible from on board a ship, now used to mean something imminent.
Calk to fill wooden vessel seams with oakum and cotton using caulking irons and hammer
Caulking- Material used to seal the seams in a wooden vessel, making it watertigh.
GET IN IRONS - A vessel is in irons when she is in the wind's eye, and, having lost all headway, will not go off on either tack.
After experimenting with the Rainbow at Deptford and the Ironsides at Liverpool, Sir G. B.
These are attached to stainless steel angle irons that run below the deck flange and are supported by a beefed-up fiberglass layup.
A boat with its head into the wind is known as "head to wind" or "in irons". The point of sail with the bow of the boat as close as possible to the wind is called close hauled.
Vessel with anchor down but not holding
Vessel riding on anchor chains
Vessel with inoperative steering gear
Sailing vessel becalmed or in irons
Exceptionally bad weather (relative to vessel claiming status) ...
A sailboat cannot sail directly into the wind (in irons) but most can sail close hauled at 45° and some as close as 30° to the wind.
She would then remain full sailed and bye the wind sailing full and bye or by and large. A vessel which pointed up to wind too far could easily get stuck head to wind in irons with the wind passing from stem to stern (front to back) down each beam ...
 See also: Point, Boat, Sailing, Bow, Line
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