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.
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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Midships - In the middle portion of the boat - Roughly halfway between a ship's stem and stern, and where the beam usually is the widest.
Midwatch - the watch or work shift beginning at midnight, usually lasting until 4:00am or 8:00am.
sloopA single-masted sailboat in which the mast is set forward of midships. soleThe deck floor.
MIDSHIPS Same as Amidships. MITRED Cut to an angle of 45 degrees or two pieces joined to make a right angle. MOCK UP To build up of wood or light material to scale or full size a portion of the ship before actual fabrication of the steel work.
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.
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.
This position was the worst possible in that, being dead midships, it was where the list caused would be greatest and its position relative to the transverse bulkheads was such that four main compartments plus over 106 feet of the ship's starboard ...
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), ...
Reach: To sail with the wind coming over the midships of the boat, often a boat's best and fastest point of sail.
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) ...
In square-riggers often used as quarters for the crew. In the early days of sail a castle like structure was built on the fore and aft ends of the hull and used as fighting platforms with the midships area reserved for rigging and sails.
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.
range weather forecasts and indicating the most economic and save sailing route. Row
A vertical division of a vessel from starboard to portside, used as a part of the indication of a stowage place for containers. The numbers run from midships to ...
 See also: Stern, Forward, Line, Point, Aft
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