Sheer

sheer
Line of the deck or gunwale from bow to stern as viewed from outside the boat.
sheet
Line used to trim a sail.

sheer - The curvature of a deck, as seen from the side. Normal sheer curves up towards the bow and stern. Reverse sheer curves down towards the bow and stern.

Sheerstrake: The topmost plank on a hull.
Sheet: A line controlling the position of a sail, attached to a lower corner of a sail, or attached to the boom.

Sheer
1) The fore and aft curvature of the deck. 2) A sudden change of course.
Sheet
A line used to control a sail's trim. The sheets are named after the sail, as in jib sheet and main sheet.

Sheer The rise of a ship's deck towards the bow or stern from amidships.
Sheer strake The upper line of plating or planking on the hull.
Sheet Rope or chain at lower corner of sail for regulating its tension.

plank sheer - The outside plank at the deck edge which reaches the timber heads, and shows the sheer of the vessel. Also the same as covering board.
platform - The floor of a cabin.

Break Sheer:
When an anchored vessel is forced, by wind or current, to swing across her anchor so as to risk fouling it with her own cable, she is said to break sheer.

Painted Sheerstrake
Mainly on working boat types, this can look good on a yacht with a lot of freeboard as the colour breaks this up.
Painting Colour Schemes
How the same boat can be painted in different ways: ...

SHEERLINE - The fore-and-aft line along the top edge of the hull.
SHEET BEND - A knot used to join two ropes. Functionally different from a square knot in that it can be used between lines of different diameters.

SHEER - Fore-and-aft curvature of a ship from bow to stern.
SHIFTING - This refers to movements or changing positions of cargo from one place to another. This can easily endanger the seaworthiness or cargoworthiness of the ship.

Wind sheer is the difference between the wind velocity and direction at the deck and aloft. See apparent wind and true wind. A wind generator is an onboard propeller that generates electricity. Wind indicator, see apparent wind.
windage ...

I like the sheer of this boat. I like the high bootstripes and the clean covestripe. I like the rake angle to the bow so the anchor doesn't bash the stem. I like the fold-down transom platform for boarding.

SHEER (Sheer clamp) The junction of the side and deck or the member backing this junction.

Reverse sheer curves down towards the bow and stern.
Rhumb line - a straight line compass course between two points ...

Sometimes called sheers. SHEATHING A term applied to the wood planking fitted over a steel deck, to the planking fitted over the underwater portion of a steel hull, and to the copper or alloy sheets with which the bottom of a wood ship, ...

The grooved wheel in a block, a masthead fitting, or elsewhere, over which a rope runs sheepshank A knot used for temporarily shortening a line sheer The curve of the deck or gunwale as viewed from the side; ...

Sheer - The upward curve of a vessel's longitudinal lines as viewed from the side.
Sheet - A rope used to control the setting of a sail in relation to the direction of the wind.

Sheer: The rise of a deck - usually toward bow and stern. Sheer increases freeboard, and helps keep the vessel from shipping water in rough seas - particularly at the bow.
Camber: The convex upwards curve of a deck.

Unless a vessel is properly protected by fenders, her planksheer and bulwarks are sure to be seriously injured, and to repair this part of a ship is costly in the extreme; especially in regard to the planksheer.

Sheer Strake: In wooden ships, the top planking that is normally thicker and more prominent than the other planks
Sheets: Lines or wires that are applied to a sail in order to control and adjust it ...

By sheer size and power this vessel outsailed " Britannia." She carried a main boom of 96 ft. long against the " Britannia's " boom of 91 ft.