Mast step

mast step - The place that supports the bottom of the mast. The mast step usually has a built in pattern fitting a matching pattern on the bottom of the mast, enabling the mast to be accurately positioned.

Mast Step - Fitting or construction into which the base of the mast is placed. Master - The captain of a ship. Masthead - The part of a mast above the hounds. To masthead is to hoist anything up to the truck, &c.

Mast Step A recess or fitting in a vessel's keel into which the base of the mast is positioned. Mercator Projection ...

Mast Step - The fitting in the bottom of the boat in which the bottom or heel if the mast sits. Mast Tangs - Fittings on the mast to which the forestay and shrouds attach.

Sloop. One mast stepped farther back then the cat and farther forward than the cutter's. Most pleasure crafts are sloops which carry a jib (fore) and a mainsail (aft).

A hinged on-deck mast step. It allows the mast to be lowered easily. tabling Cloth reinforcement on the edge of a sail.

Tabernacle A hinged mast step located on deck. Since it is hinged, the mast may be lowered easily.

Catboat - A small boat with the mast stepped far forward, carrying a single sail ...

Mast step Fitting or construction into which the base of the mast is placed. Masthead rig A design in which the forestay runs to the peak of the mast. Mechanical advantage (or purchase) A mechanical method of increasing an applied force.

Folding mast steps. A great assist while going up the mast, and providing essential footholds while working up or on the mast. V-berth with double bed on one side, all berths accomodating 6'. Good space to snuggle, and comfort for tall crew.

Tabernacle: A hinged mast step Tack: Forward lower corner of a sail; steering the bow of a vessel through the wind Taffrail: Rail at the stern of a vessel Thwart: A fixed seat or board in the hull of a dinghy ...

cutter: a sailboat with one mast stepped more than one third of the way aft, capable of carrying two or more sails ahead of the mast; also, a Coast Guard boat. dinghy: small open boat for sailing, rowing, etc.

Mast step: The frame on the keelson of boat (does not apply on ships) to which the heel of a mast is fitted. Master: A term for the captain, a holdover from the days when the captain was literally, and legally, the "master" of the ship and crew.

MAST STEP A term applied to the foundation on which a mast is erected. MAST TABLE See Boom Table. MESSROOM A space or compartment where members of the crew eat their meals; a dining room.

Cat Boat One unstayed mast stepped well forward. It has one sail regardless of size. Usual gaffed rigged Bettle Cat The Beetle Cat is a 12 foot, gaff rigged, wooden sailboat first built in 1921 by the Beetle family of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

(1) A fitting for the bottom of the mast (mast step.) (2) The act of placing the foot of the mast in its step and raising the mast. Stepped (1) A mast that is in place is stepped. (2) Where the mast is stepped, as in keel stepped or deck stepped.

YAWL: A two-masted sailboat with the small mizzen mast stepped abaft the rudder post. YOEMAN: A man employed in a vessel of war to take charge of a storeroom, therefore a boatswain's yeoman the man that has charge of the stores, of rigging, etc.

KetchA two-masted sailboat with the smaller after mast stepped ahead of the rudder post.

The bottom of the mast, with a shape designed to fit into the mast step. the hard land ...

Y top Yawl- a two-masted boat, with the smaller, after mast stepped behind the stern post.

Y... YAW - To swing off course, as when due to the impact of a following or quartering sea. YAWL - A two-masted sailboat with the small mizzen mast stepped abaft the rudder post. Z... There are no boating terms under this heading.

spar that supports the sails, boom, and other rigging mast box A box or cup into which the mast fits in any boat where a mast is stepped on deck [Top of Page] [Bottom of Page] mast butt The lower end of a mast masthead The top of the mast mast step A ...

The rig is a sliding gunter-type and you don't see many of those anymore but it makes for a rig that can be easily broken down into short pieces to make stowage easy. The mast steps right on top of the double bulkhead where the Passagemaker comes ...

A small boat with the mast stepped in the right place and carrying a jib and a mainsail is, however, a very satisfactory craft, good at beating to windward as well as reaching or running.

Pivoting mast step. TABLOID CRUISER A small cruiser. THOLE One of a pair of wood or metal pins set vertically in the gunwale of a boat that serve as oar locks. TILLER A bar or handle for turning a boat rudder.

See also: Boat, Forward, Mast, Line, Deck