Craft may be made fast to a pile; it may be used to support a pier (see PILING) or a float.
PILING: Support, protection for wharves, piers etc.; constructed of piles (see PILE) ...
piling
A post driven into the ground below the waterline to support a pier, dock, etc.
pilot house
A fully enclosed helm compartment.
Piling - Support, protection for wharves, piers etc.; constructed of piles (see PILE).
Planing - A boat is said to be planing when it is essentially moving over the top of the water rather than through the water.
Piling
A thick post supporting or mooring a dock or pier. It is deep inside the seabed, and it projects above the water level.
Pmiz ...
Piling
Support, protection for wharves, piers etc.
A wood, metal or concrete pole driven into the bottom.
Piloting ...
pile, piling - A pole embedded in the sea bottom and used to support docks, pierpiers and other structures.
pile, piling - A vertical pole driven into the water's bottom; may be used to support a pier or as a mooring site.
pile driving - Pitching heavily and frequently in a short steep sea.
piling, pile
A post driven into the water's bottom and supporting a pier, wharf, jetty, dock, or float.
pilot ...
BOAT HOOK: A short shaft with a fitting at one end shaped to facilitate use in putting a line over a piling, recovering an object dropped overboard, or in pushing or fending off.
SLEEPERS Timbers placed upon the ground or on top of piling to support the cribbing, keel, and bilge blocks. SLEEVE A casing, usually of brass, fitted over line or other shafting for protection against wear or corrosion, or as a bearing surface.
between a bow chock and a piling.
Fender - protection for a boat.
Flapper - Short for flapper valve or Shutter valve,installed in the
exhaust system of sterndrive engines to prevent
backwash of water into the engine if the engine were ...
Clove Hitch - A knot for temporarily fastening a line to a spar or piling.
Coaming - A vertical piece around the edge of a cockpit, hatch, etc. to prevent water on deck from running below.
Dipping the eye: If two boats have their dock lines around the same piling, and the boat owner of the lower line wants to remove his to cast off. He must either first remove the line on top or perform the maneuver called "dipping the eye".
Boats are moored either or on buoys or on fixed or floating walkways that are tied to an anchoring piling by a roller or ring mechanism (floating docks or pontoons).
The stern bumps along the pilings because the skipper is so intent on turning the bow, he forgets he is actually throwing the stern toward the dock.
Clove Hitch: Common knot; often used to bind a rope to a piling
Close reach: Steering off a close-hauled course by approximately 20 degrees
Close-hauled: To sail a boat as close to the wind as possible ...
To help with some of these hurdles I have begun compiling some (hopefully) useful pages in this site to help the beginning enthusiast to better understand and research bygone eras.
Fair Lead - A line unobstructed between its terminals, such as between a bow chock and a piling
Fairing Block- Shim installed to adjust the angle of a mounted item
Fathoms - Six feet, chart may list fathoms and feet together or fathoms and a fraction ...
A ridge of ice is caused by ice piling upat a coastline, due to the action of onshore winds.
Ridge (pressure)
An elongated area of high pressure.
Secure your dock lines to sturdy points, pilings cleats, etc., and protect lines from chafing with chafe gear at points of contact. The lines will resemble a spider web with your boat in the center when done.
Easy way to make a line temporarily fast to a piling or post. The clove hitch can jam under heavy tension, making it difficult to untie.
Clove Hitch: Used to tie a line to a piling or a fender to a railing, it is easy to adjust the length of the line.
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If you tie up to a dock or piling that is fixed in height, your lines must be loose enough to let the boat move up and down. In many areas with very high tides, the docks themselves float up and down, avoiding this problem.
on Delaware waters other than the Atlantic Ocean, no person shall operate a personal watercraft at any speed greater than headway speed unless said personal watercraft is at least 100 feet from all wharfs, piers, docks, boat launching areas, pilings, ...
Your foredeck crew should immediately jump on the side dock to round up the bow line around the dock cleat, or lasso the line around the piling. In both cases, he/she should do it in a way that he can keep slacking it off as you keep backing up.
Modern moorings may be anchored by sand screws which look and act very much like over-sized screws drilled into the seabed, or by barbed metal beams pounded in (or even driven in with explosives) like pilings, ...
Shipper's Export Declaration
Abbreviation: SED
A United States customs form to be completed for all exports to assist the government in compiling export statistics.
introduced to North American waters via ballast water from a transoceanic vessel. The zebra mussel has had significant negative economic and ecological effects: It clogs water intake pipes and attaches to and fouls boat hulls, dock pilings and other ...
The floating docks travel up and down on fixed pilings and are connected to the land by ramps hinged at the top and rolling at the bottom. A rising flood tide creates currents moving inland and a falling ebb tide causes outbound currents.
 See also: Boat, Deck, Running, Point, Hull
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