Lacing advice for those of you who own gaff- or gunter-rigged boats.
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 - 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.
laid up - A vessel that is ready for use, but has not yet been commissioned.
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: 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:
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.
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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.
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upward displacing swells
heaving line
A light line used to be thrown ashore from which a larger rope can then be pulled.
Knot: 1. An interlacing of rope, cord, etc, drawn tight into a lump or end. 2. (Naut) A measure of Nautical speed about 1.125 statute miles per hour.* ...
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.
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DISPLACEMENT HULL: 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 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.
Displacement hull boats are boats that move through the water, pushing the water out of the wave of the boat - displacing the water.
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 few outboard motors have been produced with pump-jet propulsion replacing the conventional propeller.
A set of documents, replacing the various (national) forms for customs declaration within European Community, implemented on January 1st, 1988.
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.
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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.
 See also: Boat, Light, Hull, Stand, Line
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