LAY LINE: The course on which your boat, sailing close on the wind, can just make a windward mark.
LAZARETTE - A storage space in a boat's stern area.
LEE - The side sheltered from the wind.
LEE SHORE: Shoreline downwind of a boat (to be avoided).
Lay line: The course on which your boat, sailing close - hauled on starboard tack, can just make a windward mark which is to be rounded to port is the starboard - tack lay line for that mark, ...
Lay: The twist of a stranded rope, usually to the right.
Lazarette: A small storage compartment at the stern.
Lead: A shaped weight on a marked line, used to measure water depth and to pick up bottom samples [mud, clay, sand].
Lay-up: temporary cessation of trading of a ship by a shipowner during a period when there is a surplus of ships in relation to the level of available cargoes.
lay - The position of an item.
lazarette - A small aft storage space for spare parts and other items.
lazy guy - A line attached to the boom to prevent it from accidentally jibbing.
Lay Up a Vessel
Temporary cessation of trading of a vessel by the shipowner.
L/C
See Letter of Credit.
Lay: To sail a course that will clear an object or racecourse marker buoy such as the windward and leeward marks. When a yacht is doing so, it is said to be laying the mark. Also see "Layline." ...
Lay:
(1) As a command, it means to go in the direction indicated, e.g., "Lay foward" (go up) or "Lay alow!" (come down).
(2) Of a line or rope, it refers to the direction in which the strands are twisted.
LAY/CAN- Laydays/cancelling
LAYTIME -Time allowed by the shipowner to the voyage charterer or bill of lading holder in which to load and/or discharge the cargo. It is expressed as a number of days or hours or as a number of tons per day.
Lay
(1) The position of an item. (2) The direction in which a stranded rope is twisted.
Lay Line ...
Lay the edge of the rulers over the two places; then slide them (preserving the direction) till the edge of one ruler is on the center of the nearest compass; when this is done read off the course indicated by the direction of the ruler.
To lay a line down in circular turns.
Compass
Navigation instrument, either magnetic (showing magnetic north) or gyroscopic (showing true north) ...
To lay a line down in circular turns.
cold front
Used in meteorology to describe a mass of cold air moving toward a mass of warm air. Strong winds and rain typically accompany a cold front.
COIL - To lay a line down in circular turns.
COURSE - The direction in which a boat is steered.
CUDDY - A small shelter cabin in a boat.
coil - To lay a line down in circular turns. This gives the rope a low flat profile on the deck, rather than a tangled mess.
cold front - The forward edge of a cold air mass meeting warmer air; a meteorological term for describing weather.
unbend To cast adrift or untie under bare poles With no sails set under lay To make the "last tack" too early so that the mark cannot be rounded without another tack under the lee Protected from the wind by land, another boat, ...
lay: the direction in which the strands of a line are twisted, usually right-handed or clockwise. In hard-laid line the strains are tightly twisted; in soft-laid line the strands are more nearly parallel.
BATTEN Long, thin, strips of wood, steel, or plastic, usually of uniform rectangular section used in the drafting room and mold loft to lay down the lines of a vessel, but sometimes thinned down in the middle or at the ends to take sharp curves.
OFFSETS Measurements supplied by a designer for the builder in order to lay down the lines of the hull. Glen-L patterns eliminate the need for a table of offsets.
Trim the ballast, that is spread it about, and lay it even, or runs over one side of the hold to the other
Bar-shallow water usually made of sand or mud, usually running parallel to the shore. Bars are caused by wave and current action, ...
LAY-BY - ships that are laid up usually waiting for cargo or a charter, often outside a port.
Derived from the old 'lay-board' providing access between a ship and a quay.
Large - See By and large.
Method of calculating the Lay days. These days are not counted. SHINC Sundays and Holidays INCluded
Method of calculating the Lay days. These days are counted. SIGTTO Society of International Gas Tankers and Terminal Operators ltd.
- Lay the cnd of a rope or hawser across its standing part; then take the end of another rope or hawser, and lay it under the first standing part, at the cross, and over the end; then through the bight under the standing part; ...
The best way to do this is to drop the anchor (slowly) until it hits the bottom (let the boat drift back or put the engine in reverse) to lay out the chain and rode on the bottom of the creek till the desired amount is in the water.
With this ship lay over fifty years of extended exposure to elements that only recently have become reachable by mankind. And this is not the only viable application the field has produced.
Above the kelson lay the upper false keel, into which the mast was step~ed. The stem (o-r&pa) rose from the keel at an angle of about 70 to the water.
To lay up is to prepare a boat for storage at the end of the boating season. To lay out gear is to prepare equipment for use. A layout is an arrangement of a boat's cabins and equipment.
If you use five miles to the tip, lay one tip on your starting point while the other rests along a spot five miles down the course.
Broach - To incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.
Broad Reach - A point of sail where the boat is sailing away from the wind, but not directly downwind ...
The hull is solid fiberglass below the waterline and balsa cored from the waterline up-a sensible way to lay up a hull.
Berth: place alongside a quay where a ship loads or discharges cargo, or in the case of a lay-by berth, waits until a loading or discharging berth is available.
Right-laid rope, as most twisted rope is, should be wound clockwise, while left-laid rope should be wound counterclockwise. Preserving the lay of the rope in this way will make for line that coils easily and plays out smoothly.
Starting with the center strand "B", Select the topmost strand of the standing part and tuck "B" under it.(right to left against the lay of the strands) Tighten but do not distort the natural lay of the strands.
When the jib and mainsail are set correctly, the two sails will lay parallel to each other, see diagram for example of parallel lay shape.
Then with the anchor man still at the bow, start backing up the boat gently to lay down the rest of the chain desired length. Let the boat settle again. Then put the engine in idle reverse position.
Aft, in naval terminology, is an adverb meaning 'towards the stern of the ship', when the frame of reference is within the ship. Example: "Able Seaman Smith; lay aft!". Or; "What's happening aft?" Its antonym is forward, pronounced "forrard". The ...
(f) Every vessel, if underway on the "waters of this State" and upon being hailed by a designated law enforcement officer, shall stop immediately and lay to, or shall maneuver in such a way as to permit such officer to come ahead.
Operating a boat while intoxicated is just as dangerous as operating a car. The maritime police are equipped with breathalyser. If the results are positive, the police may lay charges.
Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant "an excessively devoted or hypocritical person.
 See also: Boat, Light, Deck, Sail, Running
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