PIER: A loading platform extending at an angle from the shore.
PILE: A wood, metal or concrete pole driven into the bottom. Craft may be made fast to a pile; it may be used to support a pier (see PILING) or a float.
Pier
A place extending out into the water where vessels may dock. Usually made out of wood or cement.
Pile, piling
A pole embedded in the sea bottom and used to support docks, piers and other structures.
Pier
See quay.
Piggyback
The carriage of road vehicles and trailers on railway wagons.
Synonym: Huckepack Carriage.
Pier
A wooden structure (although it may be built from other materials) built over the water, used by boats for landing.
Piling ...
PierA loading/landing platform extending at an angle from the shore.
PilotingNavigation by use of visible references, the depth of the water, etc.
pier - A structure that extends into the water and is used as a landing for vessels.
pile, piling - A vertical pole driven into the water's bottom; may be used to support a pier or as a mooring site.
finger pier - A small pier that projects from a larger pier.
fisherman anchor - Kedge anchor. A traditionally shaped anchor having flukes perpendicular to the stock of the anchor and connected by a shank.
Finger Pier:
A small pier that projects from a larger pier.
Fireman:
An unlicensed member of the engine room staff whose duties consist in standing watch in the boiler room and insuring the oil burning equipment is working properly.
Pier - A structure extending into navigable water, used as a landing place or promenade. A pier is not a dock.
See pier.
finish
1) The polish on woodwork and other surfaces. A nicely finished boat has gleaming paint and varnish. 2) the end of a race.
Leaving a Pier: ( Previous Page )
Getting underway and safely leaving a crowded pier can be difficult. The use of spring lines greatly aid in this maneuver.
Pier - A loading/landing platform or structure extending at an angle from the shore.
Piggin - Very small wooden pail having one stave prolonged to form a handle. Used as a bailer in a boat.
BOLLARD: A heavy post set into the edge of the wharf or pier to which the lines of a boat may be tied.
BOOM: A pole running at a right angle from the mast.
BOOT TOP: A painted line that indicates the designed waterline.
BOLLARD - Stout post on wharf or pier for securing mooring lines.
BOOM - Spar used to extend and control foot of fore-and-aft sail.
BOW - The forward part of a vessel. ...
DOLPHIN A term applied to several piles that are bound together, situated either at the corner of a pier or out in the stream and used for docking and warping vessels.
Page] [Bottom of Page] board A tack or let to windward when beating boat boom A spar that swings from a boat's side when at anchor to secure a dinghy boat hook A device designed to catch a line or ring-bolt when coming alongside a pier ...
boat hook: a device designed to catch a line when coming alongside a pier or mooring. bobstay: wire stay underneath the bowsprit; helps to counteract the upward pull exerted by the forestay.
Then General Sir Charles Pasley introduced demi-pontoons, like decked canoes with pointed bows and square sterns, a pair, attached sternwise, forming a single "pier" of support for the roadway; ...
Pier-head jump - When a sailor is drafted to a warship at the last minute, just before she sails.
Pilot - Navigator. A specially knowledgeable person qualified to navigate a vessel through difficult waters, e.g. harbour pilot etc.
DOCK: Pier.
EMBARKATION: Entering, or boarding the ship.
FIRST SITTING: Earlier of two meal times, usually around 6:15pm.
FORWARD: Toward the bow (front) of the ship
FREE PORT: A port free of customs duty and most customs regulation.
PIER - A loading platform extending at an angle from the shore.
PIKE - A long wooden shaft with a pointed iron head.
PILE - A wood, metal or concrete pole driven into the bottom.
GANGWAY - a narrow portable platform used as a passage, by persons entering or leaving a vessel moored alongside a pier or quay.
GAS TANKER - Specially designed for the transport of condensed (liquefied) gases.
Fender - A cushion, placed between boats, or between a boat and a pier, to prevent damage.
Fid - Tool used by riggers in splicing line ...
Fender: A cushion-like thing that is placed along the hull to protect it from collision with other boats, pier walls or cliffs to prevent damage normally when mooring ...
pilingA post driven into the ground below the waterline to support a pier, dock, etc. pilot houseA fully enclosed helm compartment. pitchTheoretical distance a propeller would travel in one revolution.
Dock - the area a boat rests in when attached to a pier, also the act of taking the boat to the pier to secure it
Dodger A screen, usually fabric, erected to protect the cockpit from spray and wind.
Wharfage: charge assessed by a pier or dock owner against freight handled over the pier or dock or against a steamship company using the pier or dock.
Witness: person who comes to court and swears under oath to give truthful evidence.
A long wooden beam usually swinging at the side of a pier to prevent ships chafing against them.
If in doubt, underdo it - better to err on the side of not coming in closely enough than of crashing into the pier or into nearby boats.
Berth - a. space needed to move a ship around; b. the dock or pier; c. you cabin
Berth - a sufficient distance for maneuvering a ship, the place where a ship lies when at anchor, a place to sit or sleep
Bow - the front of the ship ...
Stout post on wharf or pier for securing mooring lines.
Bolt Rope
A reinforcing rope sown into the edge of the sail.
A cushion, placed between yachts, or between a yacht and a pier, to prevent damage.
flare
(1) The outward curve of a vessel's sides near the bow. (2) A distress signal.
Bollard - Massive metal post on a dock or pier that heavy ship lines can wrap around
Bow - The front of a boat ...
- Dock Lines are used to Moor (connect / fasten) or Make Fast a boat to a dock (dock lines) or a permanent mooring (mooring lines) like a pile, pier, wharf, or buoy field. Most often the connecting points are cleats, but not always.
Fender Soft rubber or other material to prevent chafe between vessels, or vessel and pier.
Fetch 1) To make, arrive at a desired point. 2) The distance the wind has from weather shore to ship.
It was hot and sticky on the Chicago waterfront, but when the Dehler 39 came motoring around Navy Pier to pick us up at the Chicago Yacht Club for our test sail, it looked cool and powerful.
The clove hitch is used to temporarily attach a rope to a pole, a pier or any other object.
Mooring ...
(h) No person shall engage in water skiing and no person shall operate a vessel towing a person so engaged within one hundred (100) feet of any person in the water, a pier, dock, float, wharf, or vessel anchored or adrift, ...
Bollard: A large post on a wharf or pier and on the deck of a ship for securing mooring lines.
Boom: A pole running at a right angle from the mast supporting the sails foot.
Boomkin: A Pole or spar that extends from the stern.
Port, Portside: the left side of the ship facing front. Traditionally ships docked with the left side to the pier or dock and the right side, or starboard side facing outward to the sea.
PFD Personal Flotation Devices (PFD), better known as life jackets
Pier -A loading/landing platform extending at an angle from the shore.
Pigstick-The staff at the truck of the mainmast from which a pennant is flow ...
A single white light could be a masthead light of one vessel type, a stern light of another, an anchor light, a practical deck light on a fishing trawler, an airplane's landing light, or a motorcycle idling on a dark pier. Don't make assumptions.
Bowlines are used wherever a secure loop or noose is needed in the end of a line, such as a line which is to be secured to a bollard in making a boat fast to a pier or wharf.
DISPLACEMENT HULL - A type of hull that plows through the water, displacing a weight of water equal to its own weight, even when more power is added.
DOCK - A protected water area in which vessels are moored. The term is often used to denote a pier ...
An applied or thickened member at the rail, running the length of the boat; serves to protect the hull when alongside a pier or another boat.
Running backstay: Also runner, or preventive backstay.
 See also: Boat, Line, Anchor, Deck, Point
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