Lacing

lacing Lines used to fix sail to a spar or mast laid up To be in dry dock land breeze Evening breeze that blows from the land to the sea landlocked To be completely surrounded by land, ...

lacing - A lineline used to attach a sail to a spar. laid up - A boat in a dry dock. land breeze - A wind moving from the land to the water due to temperature changes in the evening.

lacing a line used to attach a sail to a spar Search results: Click on the word(s) below to view the definition.

Lacing: Small line that attaches a sail to a spar. Lee: The downwind side; the direction or side towards which the wind is blowing.

Lacing The long line that secures the sail to a spar through eyelets. Lapstrake Planking when one edge overlaps the other lower plank. Launch To slide a vessel into the water. A small motor tender.

Lacing - To pass a rope through the eyelets of a sail and round a spar. Laid - The make of a rope, as cable laid, hawser laid, single laid, laid with the sun.

Placing the sampling equipment on the same side of the boat as the boat operator ensures that a concentration of weight will be there anytime samples are collected or measurements are made. This is particularly critical on a small boat.

Replacing terephthalic acid (right) with isophthalic acid (center) creates a kink in the PET chain, interfering with crystallization and lowering the polymer's melting point.

Replacing the traditional boom, curved sprits side by side on either side of a sail and joined together at a point well up the mast and at the sail's clew. They hold the sail out and down. This is the rig used on sailboards. See snotter. woollies ...

Replacing wet clothing with dry clothing, Wrapping the person in blankets, Placing dry coverings over the person, Covering the person's head and neck, Covering the person with an insulating device and vapour barrier; ...

upward displacing swells heaving line A light line used to be thrown ashore from which a larger rope can then be pulled.

Lacing Rope used to lash a sail to a gaff, or a bonnet to a sail. Also, a piece of compass or knee timber, fayed to the back of the figure-head and the knee of the head, and bolted to each. Land-Fal The making land after being at sea.

Lacing - A length of line or thin rope; A line used to attach a sail to a spar. Ladder - Stairway of inclined or vertical steps on board ship. Lading - That which is loaded into a ship. The act of loading.

For use on the inner forestay (replacing the staysail) in storm situations--the Tayana 37' heaves to well with this configuration. Sails: Storm trysail with separate mast track. For use in a storm, without having to remove the mainsail.

The 523 has clean deck lines and a fast, flat underwater profile, but it is no lightweight, displacing nearly 33,000 pounds. This much boat requires an honest rig and the 523 has one with 1,625 square feet of working sail area.

The foot of the mainsail should next be made fast to the boom in the same manner as the peak, the lacing going round a wire jackstay rove through eyebolts on the top of the boom.

Administration; and Navy: History.) At the present time, whether at home or abroad, they lie within the province of the controller of the navy (the third lord of the board of admiralty); and the director of dockyards, whose office, replacing that of ...

A set of documents, replacing the various (national) forms for customs declaration within European Community, implemented on January 1st, 1988.

Inert gas system: a system of preventing any explosion in the cargo tanks of a tanker by replacing the cargo, as it is pumped out, by an inert gas, often the exhaust of the ship's engine.

marline A light (two-stranded) rope, used for lacings, seizings, servings and whippings. marlinespike A pointed steel tool that is used for splicing line. mast A vertical spar.

Displacement HullA type of hull that plows through the water, displacing a weight of water equal to its own weight, even when more power is added.

DISPLACEMENT HULL - A type of hull that plows through the water and is not capable of planning speed, displacing a weight of water equal to its own weight even when more power is added.

A type of hull that plows through the water, displacing a weight of water equal to its own weight, even when more power is added. Dock A protected water area in which vessels are moored. The term is often used to denote a pier or a wharf. Dolphin ...

Displacement Hull: A hull that plows through the water, with little or no lift qualities displacing water equal to its own weight.

heaves -- upward displacing swells Heel - the leeward lean of the boat caused by the winds action on the sails Helm - the tiller or wheel, and surrounding area Helmsman - the member of the crew responsible for steering ...

See also: Boat, Light, Hull, Stand, Line