roach - 1 - A curve out from the aft edge leech - of a sail. Battens are sometimes used to help support and stiffen the roach. 2 - Disgusting little bug found in poorly maintain boats and almost any home in Florida.
roach - The curved portion of a sail extending past a straight line drawn between two corners.
Approach the dock slowly at a shallow angle with the boat completely under your control. If you have a choice, it's easiest to come to the dock with the bow into the wind or current, whichever is stronger, letting it slow you as you approach.
Roach -- The curved part of the foot of a sail.
Rockered keel -- A keel whose ends curve upward.
Running bowsprit -- A bowsprit so fitted as to run in or out and reef.
roach
The convex or concave curve in a sail's leech or foot when seen from the side.
road, roads, roadstead ...
Approach upwind and reduce speed early enough that you won't pass the ball. Try to calculate in a way that you will arrive at 0kts. just letting the boat die on the ball.
Approach the buoy in the same direction as the other moored boats are laying, at very slow speed, bring her to a stop and hold her nose in position until your crew has safely made fast.
Approach dock slowly, and throw engine in neutral or reverse, to drift in the last 10 feet or so. Have crew ready to jump ashore on your command, with mooring line in hand, and have them haul in and belay as soon as they arrive on the dock.
To approach something from upwind.
Bear Off
Steer away from the wind, shore, or any object.
Do not approach within 100 yards, and slow to minimum speed within 500 yards of any U.S. Naval vessel. If you need to pass within 100 yards of a U.S. Naval vessel for safe passage, you must contact the U.S. Naval vessel or the U.S.
DO NOT approach military, cruise line or commercial shipping. Keep your distance. There is a 100-yard security zone around military, cruise line and many commercial vessels.
[edit] The roach
The shape of a sail is seldom a perfect triangle. It is common for sailmakers to add an arc of extra material on the leech, outside a line drawn from the head to the clew.
As two boats approach on a collision course, which one gives way? Sailboat to sailboat, these are the rules: ...
When two boats approach each other on the course it is the obligation under Rule 14 of each boat to avoid contact with the other.
To land a boat, approach the dock at a 30-45 degree angle. Once near the dock, move the throttle bar toward the dock to clear the bow of the boat and take up a parallel position.
When two vessels approach each other and their paths are crossing. The boat with the other boat on its starboard side is the give way vessel and must yield.
Crosstrees ...
Battens Flexible strips of wood or plastic, most commonly used in the mainsail to support the aft portion, or roach, so that it will not curl.
Bilge A rounding of the hull along the length of the boat where the bottom meets the side.
Admiralty Sweep - A large, cautious turn made to approach a gangway or to come alongside a vessel or jetty in a boat.
Adornings - The gingerbread woodwork on the stern of old sailing ships.
SAIL, PARTS OF: ROACH - The part of the sail that extends beyond the straight line between the head and the clew. Roach is sometimes also applied to the foot.
bear down To approach from windward bearing 1. A direction; 2. The direction in which an object is seen, or the direction of one object from another, expressed in compass points or degrees.
Batten: A light strip that supports the roach
Beam: Maximum width of a boat
Bearing: The direction of any object from your vessel
Bearing away: To turn a vessel away from the wind ...
The box rule approach to big boat racing lets boats race on a one-design basis while allowing room for designers to experiment with design features.
Bigger waves may indicate the approach of stronger gusts of wind. Racers have learned to look for dark patches in the water and can therefore predict how that approaching wind will affect a sailboat.
The members of the Yacht Squadron, not wishing to risk the reproach of denying the visitor a fair race, decided that their match for a cup given by the club, to be sailed round the Isle of Wight later in the same month, ...
How does "close-quarters" compare with the closest-point-of-approach distance that triggers risk of collision (see Rule 7 discussion), or with the "safe distance" of paragraph (d) of this Rule, or with the "well-clear" of Rule 16?
Maneuvering information, closest point of approach (CPA), time to closest point of approach (TCPA) and other navigation information, more accurate and more timely than information available from an automatic radar plotting aid, ...
The programmed learning approach to this course will enable you and your partner to learn from each other as well as gaining from the instructor's extensive sailing and teaching experience.
The systematic approach applied to simultaneous management and acquisition of equipment and related logistics support, in order to provide the customer with a desired level of availability.
Bar A shoal in the approach to a harbor.
Battens Thin pieces of wood or fiberglass set into the leech of the sail to control shape.
Beacon Aid to navigation, lighted or unlighted, radio or racon, set on the shore or rocks.
A large cautious turm made to approach a gangway or to come alongside a vessel or jetty in a boat
adrift
Floating free with the currents and tide, not under control, floating without any means of propulsion or mooring.
The direction from which ocean waves approach a location. Generally, the principal wave direction is represented by the direction which corresponds to the peak period of the energy spectrum (TP1).
Wave height or amplitude ...
A good fit is important and there's no substitute for the try-before-you-buy approach; most brands make different sizes of children's lifejackets, based on weight and chest size rather than age. Remember children grow fast.
Ground swells
Swells that become shorter and steeper as they approach the shore due to shallow water.
Ground tackle
The anchor and its rode or chain and any other gear used to hold a boat securely in place.
Following sea- Waves that approach from the rear of a moving boat.
Foot- The bottom edge of a sail.
Fore- Toward the front of a boat.
battens - Thin flexible strips (plastic or wood) used in batten pockets of a sail to support [stiffen to keep flat] the roach; battens may be used in awnings. A long piece of wood need to lash to yards or booms to strengthen them.
Roach: A curvature in the leach of a sail.
Rudder: Underwater part of a boat used for steering.
Run: The hulls underwater bottom near the stern.
Running: Sailing with the wind blowing from astern. Sailing downwind.
Lay line: The course on which your boat, sailing close - hauled on starboard tack, can just make a windward mark which is to be rounded to port is the starboard - tack lay line for that mark, and the most windward line on which you would approach ...
One of these lights or shapes shall be exhibited near the foremast head and one at each end of the fore yard. These lights or shapes indicate that it is dangerous for another vessel to approach within 1000 metres of the mine clearance vessel.
By the time you're heading into port at Montevideo, you'll be looking at scales of 1:10,000 or even smaller-close enough to give you soundings demonstrating the best approach to the channel into the harbor, and even showing the docks in easy detail.
EYES The forward end of the space below the upper deck of a ship which lies next abaft the stem where the sides of the ship approach very near to each other. The hawse pipes are usually run down through the eyes of a ship.
 See also: Boat, Hull, Sail, Aft, Beam
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