narrowing - The wind is said to "narrow" when it blows at a smaller angle from ahead, or "shorten." ...
Sail-rowing cruiser
I'm not sure rowing and sailing and cruising and camping is everyone's cup of tea, but if it did appeal to you, the Pacific Northwest would be the perfect place to do it. I love to row. I hate to camp.
3. Rowing the kedge anchor out is usually better than using an outboard. Rowing keeps the dinghy transom clear. Hard dinghies are better for kedging emergencies than inflatables.
On a rowing boat (especially in sports), the gunwale is sometimes referred to as the saxboard.
Dory: A small rowing vessel with a narrow, flat bottom and high sides curving outward.
Figurehead: A carved figure or bust on a ships prow.
COMBINATION ROWING AND
SAILING BOATS
A BOAT intended for both rowing and sailing should be partly decked, and have as high a coaming as possible round the cockpit. A folding centerboard should be fitted as in Fig.
(b) Racing shells, rowing sculls, racing canoes and racing kayaks are exempted from the requirements for carriage of any Type PFD required under Section 1 of this part.
JETTISON - Act of throwing cargo or equipment (jetsam) overboard when a ship is in danger.
OAR LOCKS (ROWLOCK A device for holding an oar in place when rowing or steering. The majority of commercially available oar locks consist of a "socket" and a "horn". The horn can be U-spaped or round.
Blowing the Grampus - Old term for waking a sailor asleep on watch by throwing a bucket of cold water over him.
Blue Peter - A flag signaling that a ship is about to sail and that all should report on board. It is International Code Flag "P".
'OAR (A.S.' ?r; M. Eng. ore; Lat. Gr. per/26c: Sans. aritra; Fr. rame; Ital. Span., Port. rama), the instrument used for propelling a boat in rowing. The word " oar " is probably derived from an old root ar, meaning to drive, to force away (cf.
Sculling: A technique of "rowing" a dinghy with a single oar
Scupper: Drains in the decks or inner parts of boats (cabins, cockpit and alike) that lead water overboard ...
Sculling - Rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell.
Shake out - to release a reefed sail and hoist the sail aloft
Sheave - The wheel of a block pulley.
Rockets or shells, throwing red stars fired one at a time at short intervals;
A signal made by any signaling method consisting of the group ...---... (S.O.S.) in the Morse Code; ...
dinghy: small open boat for sailing, rowing, etc. a small open boat, usually carried aboard a yacht for going ashore ketch: a boat with a two-masted rig in which the larger, or mainmast, is forward, ...
Brigantine: A brigantine (the shortened expression is brig) is a small vessel equipped both for sailing and rowing, swifter and more easily maneuvered than larger ships, and hence employed for purposes of piracy, espionage, reconnoitering, etc.
Egyptian Galley - Sailing and rowing vessel on the Nile river 1600 B.C.
El Niņo -- a warm inshore current annually flowing south along the coast of Ecuador.
Can we afford to buy and maintain this boat without borrowing or overextending ourselves financially?
Pleasing to the eye.
Give Way Together - Command used by Coxswain in larger rowing boats
Gollywobbler - A full, quadrilateral sail used in light air on schooners. It is flown high, between the fore and main mast, and is also known as a fishermans staysail.
Sliding thwarts allow far more powerful rowing. A removable thwart can permit standing rowing. A sculling oar can substitute for several oars on a dinghy normally moved by other power.
This is the act of throwing a man overboard, tied to a rope that goes beneath the ship, and then dragging him from one side to the other and hauling him out.
-It consists of two narrowing jaws with teeth in which the line is placed.
Jenny: A genoa jib. A large jib that overlaps the mast, also Genny.
Jetsam: Anything deliberately thrown overboard - debris, jettisoned items, floating at sea.
Dory-Small, flat-bottomed rowing boats manned by one or two fishermen. Used for cod-fishing off Newfoundland. The name is derived from the Portuguese pescadores meaning fishermen
DOUBLE HEADSAIL RIG - Two sails forward of the mast as in a cutter.
Give Way: Command to start rowing.
Go About: See come about.
Gunwale: A structural timber extending from bow to stern along the inside of the top plank; loosely speaking, the top edge of the hull of a boat. Pronounced "Gun'l".
A technique of “rowing' a dinghy with a single oar
scupper
Drain in cockpit, coaming, or toe-rail allowing water to drain out and overboard. When in toe rail, properly known as "freeing port" ...
The person rowing the boat faces backwards, bringing the blade of the oars out of the water and toward the bow of the boat. They then pull the oars through the water toward the stern of the boat, moving the boat forward.
Direction was measured with a compass and speed was estimated by throwing a piece of flotsam alongside the ship. This method didn't take into account tides and currents, which resulted in ships going off course.
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Jettison
The act of intentionally throwing cargo overboard e.g. with the objective of lightening a vessel, which has run aground, such for the common good of all interests: vessel, crew and remaining cargo (see GA).
HEAVING LINE-Line with a weighted end to facilitate throwing it ashore or to another vessel.
HEEL-The tilt, tip, listing or laying-over of a boat, usually due to the force of the wind.
HELM-The tiller by which the rudder is controlled.
Command used by Coxswain in larger rowing boats
give way vessel
The vessel that must yield to another vessel according to the navigation rules. Also known as the burdened vessel.
Generated in estuaries and rivers with high tidal range and a sharp narrowing and shoaling at the entrance. Manifested as a single wave, which may be breaking, that travels along the river or estuary and is followed by a rise in water level.
Build a classic American rowing boat: Video
Hurricane Irene at Rhode Island: photo
Fairlie 55 sailing trials: Video ...
A flat-bottomed, double-ended rowing boat originally used as a fishing boat on the Grand Banks.
double ...
horizontal cross-sections that have narrow, usually pointed, fronts (at the bow), smooth widening from the bow until roughly the middle of the length (midships), and often narrowing smoothly but usually significantly to the extreme end (the stern), ...
Throwing the bow line is very important as you may get only one try. You should practice ashore in your back yard until you feel very comfortable. As we said above the bow line should be the longest of your rafting lines.
RUN - The run of a vessel is the after-part of her narrowing up to the stern post. To let a halyard go by the run is to let it go altogether and not to slack it out gently.
a close-hauled course so close to S that S has no room to avoid hitting P/AH unless she throws her helm hard over then P/AH breaks Rule 15 (because she did not leave S enough room to keep clear by acting promptly in a seamanlike way; throwing the ...
OAR: A device used for rowing a boat.
OBSTUCTION: Is an object that a boat could not pass without changing course substantially to avoid it. e.g. a mark, a rescue boat, the shore, perceived underwater dangers or shallows.
pull -- in rowing, to row an oar, putting your back into it
Pulpit A metal framework on deck at the bow or stern. Provides a safety railing and serves as an attachment for the lifelines.
Pushpit Colloquial, a pulpit located on the stern.
Mail is addressed in care of the agent for the next port to be entered SKIFF technically, a flat-bottomed boat, but often used to name any small boat for rowing, sculling, ...
 See also: Boat, Sailing, Wind, Light, Line
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