outrigger
Poles designed to spread out fishing lines and keep them from tangling while trolling.
overboard
Over the side of a boat and into the water.
outrigger - A floatation device attached to one or both sides of the hull to help prevent a capsize.
overboard - In the water outside of the vessel.
0utrigger - A contrivance of some sort for extending a sail or stay outboard. A name for a kind of rowboat which has the rowlocks extended beyond the boat's side by iron rod brackets. A smaller hull attached to a narrow boat to improve stability.
downrigger
A gunwale-mounted weighted line device used for deep-water trolling.
draft
Vertical distance a boat penetrates the water.
outrigger
A spar projecting from a vessel's side to support a small boat, a sail, fishing gear, or a flopper-stopper.
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OUTRIGGER - Spar extended from side of ship to help secure mast.
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Many riggers shackle the shrouds to an iron band fitted to the hounds. This plan is open to objection. There may be a flaw in the iron and the band may give way suddenly, causing the mast to snap off short like the stem of a clay pipe.
The outrigger hull(s) of a proa, or trimaran.
amidships
In the center of the boat.
SQUARE - RIGGER: Large ships dating back to the 17th century typically with three masts carrying rectangular sails mounted on horizontal beems called yards.
Outrigger - A structure which extends outboard beyond the edge of the hull for some special purpose.
outdriveThe lower unit of a stern-drive motor that houses the drive gears and to which the propeller fastens. outriggerPoles designed to spread out fishing lines and keep them from tangling while trolling.
Fid - Tool used by riggers in splicing line
Figure Eight Knot - A knot in the form of a figure eight, placed in the end of a line to prevent the line from passing through a grommet or a block.
In square-riggers often used as quarters for the crew.
Foot For a triangular sail, the bottom edge.
Forepeak The compartment farthest forward in the bow of the boat. Often used for anchor or sail stowage.
Aback(backwind) - The sail filling on wrong side in the case of sq rigger may cause the ship to back up.
Abaft towards the stern.
Abeam At right angles to the keel of the boat, but not on the boat.
MAST HOUNDS The upper portion of the mast at which the outrigger or trestle trees are fitted. Also applied to that portion at which the hound band for attaching the shrouds is fitted on masts without outrigger or trestle trees.
of the outrigger and weather platform, the use of which is at the present time distributed from the Andaman Islands eastward throughout the whole of the South Pacific, has never made its way into the Western seas.
Akas: Lateral struts that attach outrigger hulls to a trimaran or proa.
Ama: The outrigger hull(s) of a proa, or trimaran.
Amidships: The middle area of the boat.
Angle of attack: The angle of a sail in relation to the direction of the wind.
Gazela a three masted barkentine Gazela Primeiro is the oldest, largest wooden square rigger still sailing in the world. She was built in 1883 in Portugal, and probably spent her first 17 years engaged in the coast wise freight trade in Europe.
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.
MOORING BUOY: A buoy secured to a permanent anchor sunk deeply into the bottom.
The rigging of a square rigger in London.
Rigging (from Anglo-Saxon wrigan or wrihan, "to clothe") is, on sailboats and sailing ships, ...
Boomkin
A small outrigger over the stern of a boat.
Bosun
Also boatswain, bos'n, bo's'n, and bo'sun, all of which are pronounced "bow-sun." A crew member responsible for keeping the hull, rigging and sails in repair.
It was impossible to sail through the narrow Dutch seaways with a great square rigger. This inspired the development of the spritsail and the staysail. The spritsail was a simple triangular sail, whose leading edge was fastened to the mast by a rope.
Type of Boat - Other - All types of craft not listed, i.e., racing hydroplanes, kayaks, airboats, houseboats, pontoon boats, rafts, outrigger, canoes, paddle wheel vessels. etc.
With more and more riggers suggesting chainplate replacement as the problem of crevice corrosion becomes prevalent in older boats, this is a feature you'll appreciate down the road. Cherubini's are built to last a lifetime.
A sailboat with its bow pointed directly into the wind, preventing the sails from filling properly so that the boat can move. It can be very difficult to get a boat that is in irons back under sail. An old square rigger could take hours to get ...
On board a square-rigger meant some one had just committed an offense grave enough to extract the "cat o' nine tails" from its canvas bag. US Congress prohibited the use of the "cat" in 1850, and it was outlawed by the British Royal Navy in 1879 ...
 See also: Boat, Sailing, Line, Point, Wind
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