PAINTER: The line which secures a dinghy or life raft from it’s bow.
PAY OUT: To ease out a line, or let it run in a controlled manner.
PENNANT (sometimes PENDANT): The line by which a boat is made fast to a mooring buoy.
Painter -A line attached to the bow of a boat for use in towing or making fast
Parcel a rope - Is to put a narrow piece of canvass round it before the service is put on.
painter - A line attached to the bow of a dinghy and used to tie it up or tow it.
palm - A tool worn on the hand with a thimble shaped structure on it and used when sewing sails.
Painter: A line in the bows of a boat, used to make fast to a dock or other object, and for light towing.
Port: The side of a boat or ship that is to your left went facing the bow. Also known as larboard.
Painter - a line tied to the bow of a small boat for the purpose of securing it to a dock or to the shore
Pennant - a triangular flag
Pinch - to sail as close as possible towards the wind ...
Painter - A line (Boat Rope) tied to the bow of a small boat for the purpose of securing or fastening it to a dock or to the shore.
Pennant - (Triangular flag) - A small flag; a pennon.
Painter: Mooring line attached to the bow of dinghies
Pan Pan: The second-highest (after "Mayday") priority signal that expresses distress ...
painter - A towing or tie-up line for a small boat. A rope spliced to a ring bolt in the bow of a boat to make fast by at wharves, steps, or other landing places. "To let go the painter" is figuratively to depart.
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Painter- A line at the bow of a small boat for mooring.
Parachute- Balloon spinnaker.
painter
A towing or docking line at the bow of a dinghy.
palm and needle ...
Painter -- A rope spliced to a ring bolt in the bow of a boat to make fast by.
Pay -- To pour hot pitch or marine glue into seams after they are caulked.
Pintles -- The metal hooks by which rudders are attached to the gudgeons.
PAINTER - Rope attached to bow of a boat to attach it to a ship or a post.
PALLOGRAPH - Instrument measuring ship's vibration.
PARREL - Band by which a yard is fastened to a mast.
Painter - Short rope secured to bow of a small boat and used for fastening her to the dock
Parallel Rulers - Used to determining Line of Position ( LOP)
Pay Out - To release a line in a controlled manner such as the anchor rode ...
Painter -A line attached to the bow of a boat for use in towing or making fast
Parcel a rope - Is to put a narrow piece of canvass round it before the service is put on.
Pay out: - to feed line over the side of the boat, hand over hand.
PAINTER - Length of line secured at bow, for towing or making fast
PIER - A loading platform extending at an angle from the shore.
Long painter-the painter is the long rope that is attached to the dinghy for towing it, tying it to the boat or to a dock.
Small dinghy anchor
Paddles / oars / oarlocks: are they in there and the right size?
Painter: A line tied to the bow of a small boat for use in towing, securing or tying up.
Peak: The upper corner of a four sided sail or top end of a gaff or spritsail.
Cutting His Painter:
A seaman's personal "painter" is his lifeline, and if it is severed, he dies.
Cutwater:
The forward curve of the stem of a ship.
PAINTER A line made fast to the bow of a small boat. This rope has nothing to do with painting but is used to "snare" a cleat on shore or alongside another boat. The French word "pantiere" means a noose.
PAINTER - A rope attached to the bow of a boat for making it fast to a ship, stake, etc.
PIER - A loading platform extending at an angle from the shore.
PIKE - A long wooden shaft with a pointed iron head.
PAINTER A length of rope secured at the bow of a small boat for use in towing or for making it fast. Called also a bow-fast.
The works of Allan Cunningham include Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1829-1833); Sir Marmaduke Maxwell (1820), a dramatic poem; Traditionary Tales of the Peasantry (1822), several novels (Paul Jones, ...
Moreover, each line has a specific name, such as the painter, halyard or fender line. Lines can be stranded or braided.
After the crew disembarked, the end of the painter was tied off near the inboard end of the boom. When the dinghy was released, it would lie to the lazy painter, safely away from the ship's side.
Lazy An extra such as a lazy painter, i.e. an extra painter.
Leech The after side of a fore and aft sail, and the outer sides of a square sail.
Lead The lead weight at the end of the lead line used to find depth of water.
An example is wrapping the dinghy painter around the propeller. If this occurs, the bow of the boat can be pulled under the water to the point where the engine stalls.
Chuck the yacht designer will now become Chuck the painter, artist and author. Damn! We are going to lose one of the very best yacht designers I have known.
Traditionally this is under a thwart with a bronze padlock that's opened at sea. The locker is generally arranged so the boat's painter (rope to the front ring) can be locked around a mooring by placing a loop over a dowel or hook in the locker, ...
or the line of her keel ON THE BOW a direction of forty-five degrees or less from the bow ON THE QUARTER a direction of forty-five degrees or less from the stern OVERBOARD over the side of a vessel OVERHEAD nautical equivalent of ceiling PAINTER the ...
Paul Gaugin -- French painter known for his Marquesan and Tahitian works after 1891
pay out -- to slacken on a line
pedestal -- columnar support for the wheel in the cockpit
phosphorescence -- luminescence ...
PAINTER - A line tied to the bow of a dinghy for towing or making fast.
PAY OUT - Slacken or let out line.
PENDANT - Short rope serving as an extension of a line, chain, cable with a descriptive name based on use, e.g. mooring pendant.
Painter A line attached to the bow of a dinghy and used to tie it up or tow it. Parallels Lines of latitude Pay out To let out a line. PFD Personal Flotation Device, a device used to keep a person afloat.
 See also: Point, Boat, Bow, Secure, Sailing
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