MIDSHIP: Approximately in the location equally distant from the bow and stern.
MIZZEN: The after mast of a ketch or yawl, or some square riggers.
MONOHULL: A boat with one hull.
MOORING: An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.
Midshipman
The lowest rank of officer aboard ship. Service as midshipman for a number of years was required before applying for a commission.
Minehunter ...
midships
Location near the center of a boat.
mizzen mast
A shorter mast located aft of the main mast on a yawl or ketch.
Midships - see amidships
Nautical Mile: 1.15 land miles
Nautical Mile: any of carious units of distance used for sea and air navigation based on the length of a minute of arc of a great sphere. The U.S. unit (no longer in use) is 6080.
Midships is the midpoint of the LWL (see below). It is half-way from the forwardmost point on the waterline to the rear-most point on the waterline.
midships - A place on a boat where its beam is the widest.
mil - Distance at sea is measured in nautical miles, which are about 6067.12 feet, 1.15 statute miles or exactly 1852 meters.
Midships- The widest point on a boat.
Mile- A nautical mile is 6,080 feet.
Mizzen- Mizzenmast. The shorter, after mast on a boat.
Midships - see "Amidships."
Poopdeck - on those ships that had them, this was the highest and aft-most deck.
Quarterdeck - rear deck where the helm and wheel are located.
Midships Order to the helmsman to put the rudder fore and aft.
Miss stays To stay up in the wind when tacking.
Midships - The center of the boat.
Moored - Anchored or made fast to a pier or wharf.
Mooring - A place where vessels are kept at anchor, or moored.
MIDSHIP - Approximately in the location equally distant from the bow and stern.
MODIFIED-V HULL - A planning hull form with generally less than 18 degrees of transom deadrise.
MONOHULL - A boat with one hull.
The midships section shows the shape as though the hull were cut across amidships, from port to starboard.
A boat with sweet lines is handsome and well designed. When a boat floats on her lines she is floating as her designer intended her to.
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City of Cleveland, midship section.
La Marguerite, which formerly in the summer months made trips from London to the coast of Kent and to France, now conducts service between Liverpool and North Wales. She is 330 ft.
dead flat - The midship section. The term is applied to the middle flat of a ship, where she gets no broader and no narrower ; that is, ...
Catwalk - On a ship, a raised bridge running fore and aft from the midship, and also called "walkway". It affords safe passage over the pipelines and other deck obstructions.
DEAD FLAT The midship portion of a vessel throughout the length of which a constant shape of cross section is maintained. DEADLIGHT A applied to a port lid or cover; a metal shutter fitted to protect the glass in a fixed or port light.
sloopA single-masted sailboat in which the mast is set forward of midships. soleThe deck floor.
WAIST - The midships section of a vessel.
WAKE - Moving waves, track or path that a boat leaves behind it, when moving across the waters.
The dinghy is generally inverted midships on yachts to avoid unbalancing the boat, and to keep the dinghy secure from waves. Inversion keeps water out of the dinghy.
If your sailboat does not have a midship horn cleat, you may use a chain plate (attaches the shroud to the boat), a hole in the toe rail or the jib's fairlead. It is not advisable to use a stanchion. Midship Spring line Animated GIF.
The solid backrest of the midships dinette bench serves as a strategic support for the cook under way, and most things can be reached from this bracing position. It is a matter of getting used to a different circulation of dishes, pots and pans.
MARLINSPIKE - A tool for opening the strands of a rope while splicing.
MIDSHIP - Approximately in the location equally distant from the bow and stern.
MOORING - An arrangement for securing a boat to a mooring buoy or a pier.
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horizontal cross-sections that have narrow, usually pointed, fronts (at the bow), smooth widening from the bow until roughly the middle of the length (midships), and often narrowing smoothly but usually significantly to the extreme end (the stern), ...
Cockpit: The aft section of the lowest deck in a man-of-war, the cockpit was usually reserved for the quarters of the midshipmen and others, but was also used for the care of the wounded during engagements.
Reach: To sail with the wind coming over the midships of the boat, often a boat's best and fastest point of sail.
-The rank of a officer equivalent to that of midshipman.
Even keel: When a boat is floats evenly to its waterline, well balanced.
Eye splice: (knots) Braiding the end of a line into itself to form a loop.
Abeam: At right angles to the keel of the boat, but not on the boat. Or, At right angles to the yachts midships.
Above Deck: On the deck (not over it see ALOFT) ...
Even Keel
Said of a vessel which is balanced in such a way that the draft forward and aft is the same as the draft in the midship of the vessel on both sides.
Event
An occurrence.
Look in any navigation manual-there it is. The United States Navy teaches the Beaufort Scale to its midshipmen during their first semester, and virtually every reasonable sailing course includes training in its use.
Bilge water is where deck water, cargo sweat, rubbish and other useless waste materials, gather in the waists (midship or centre) of the bottom of the boat, to make trouble for sailors.
midships -- the middle of the boat
Mizzen - the shorter mast behind the main mast on a ketch or yawl - or - A fore and aft sail flown on the mizzenmast.
Scott Russell's designs, as exemplified in the Titania, was the short hollow entrance he attempted to demonstrate his theory by, although he kept the midship section well aft. This was not apparent in the America.
The whole roof is so fitted to the coamings that it can be quickly and easily removed and stowed, leaving the yacht to be sailed as an open one, decked from stem to midship section.
Meridians appear as equally spaced vertical lines and parallels as horizontal lines drawn farther apart as the latitude increases, such that the correct relationship between latitude and longitude scales at any point is maintained.
Midship - ...
Mayday: An internationally valid distress signal that is repeated three times and has highest priority of all signals
Midship: Center of the vessel, middle between bow and stern
Mizzen: A fore and aft sail on the mizzen mast ...
 See also: Point, Line, Boat, Forward, Right
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