SHOAL: An offshore hazard to navigation at a depth of 16 fathoms (30 meters or 96 feet) or less.
SHROUDS: Wire rigging which supports the mast Athwartships (sideways).
shoal - 1 - Shallow water. 2 - An underwater sand bar or hill that has its top near the surface.
shore - The edge of the land near the water.
Shoal - a sandbar or other earth formation that rises from a shallow sea bottom and just barely breaks the surface, or lurks just below. Hazardous to navigation if a shoal is not mapped and lookouts fail to see it in time.
Shoaling
A phenomenon occurring as the waves enter a shallow water - their movement forward is slowed down because of the bottom friction, and thus their height increases.
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Shoal draft is what the Southerly series is all about and they achieve it with a swing keel, centerboard style.
SHOAL-Shallow.
SHROUD-Standing rigging, usually of stainless-steel wire, running from the mast to the sides of a boat to support the mast. The masts' principal lateral stays.
shoal(s)
1) An especially shallow area of water. 2) A shoal-draft boat has shallow draft.
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Shoaling
The influence of the seabed on wave behaviour. Such effects only become significant in water depths of 60m or less. Manifested as a reduction in wave speed, a shortening in wave length and an increase in wave height.
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A line or wire supporting a mast and running from its top to the spreaders, then down to the sides of the vessel. (back) ...
Shoaling Effect - Faster flowing water over a shallow area causing rough surface condition
Sidelights - A boat's red and green lights
Sidelights - Port side bow is red light - Starboard side bow is green light ...
Bar - A shoal of sand or mud on which you can run aground.
Beam - The width of a boat.
Bearing - The horizontal direction of an object with respect to an observer or the compass; a determination of position.
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.
SHOAL Shallow SHP - See SHAFT HORSEPOWER SHROUDS The stays that support the mast at the sides.
BUOY: An anchored float used for marking a position on the water or a hazard or a shoal and for mooring.
BURDENED VESSEL: That vessel which, according to the applicable Navigation Rules, must give way to the privileged vessel.
BEACON - A marked post located on a shoal or bank to warn vessels of danger or to mark a channel. A signal mark on land; a light or radio signal.
BEAM - The extreme width of a vessel. A horizontal athwartship support for the deck. ...
Adjustable metal fittings that attach stays to the hull channel The deeper portion of a water area, which may be marked with buoys that guide boats safely through shoals, ...
SHOAL A small of timber or plank placed under the heel of a shore. SHORES Pieces of timber placed in a vertical or inclined position to support some part of a ship, or the ship itself, during construction or while in dry dock.
Middle Ground - Shoal area between two navigational channels.
Midshipman - A non-commissioned naval rank. Midshipmen play a part, under supervision, in most of the ship's activities, and are in training for higher command.
Shoal - Shallow water that is a hazard to navigation.
Shrouds - Standing rigging running from a mast to the sides of a ships.
Sick bay - The compartment reserved for medical purposes.
The Vansittart found the shoals, all right-it found them good, running aground and sustaining enough damage that it took on water so rapidly that the crew had to abandon the ship on a reef off a tiny island in the Java Sea.
Buoy: A metal or wooden floating object usually anchored or moored on a dangerous rock or shoal at the entrance of a harbor, or at the edge of a channel, as a guide to navigators.
Changing siltation patterns may cause the sudden appearance of shoal waters, and often floating or sunken logs and trees (called snags) can endanger the hulls and propulsion of riverboats.
It is often a most disturbing quantity, especially when the weather is foggy and the channel in which you are steering is perplexing on account of rocks or shoals.
Shoal: Shallow areas of water.
Spar: The term for a mast, boom or gaff.
Spring tide: High tide occurring after full and new moon.
Sprit: A spar that supports the peak of a four-cornered sail extending from the mast.
A floating iron can moored by a chain on the edge of a shoal to mark a safe channel; buoys are of a great variety of shapes, all of which have a definite meaning to the sailor; some carry bells rung by the motion of the sea, ...
Traditionally, the duty of the lookout was to watch out for vessels, lights, and other objects (such as reefs, shoals, and icebergs) by sight and hearing alone and to report their presence to the vessel's operator promptly.
it is a buoy which marks random hazards such as rocks and shoals
it is white in colour
it has an orange diamond on two opposite sides and two orange horizontal bands, one above and one below the diamond symbols ...
Waves breaking over rocks or shoals. A wave that approaches shallow water, causing the wave height to exceed the depth of the water it is in, in effect tripping it.
Danger: Diamonds warn of dangers such as rocks, shoals, construction, dams, or stumps. Always proceed with caution.
Safe Water Markers are white with red vertical stripes and mark mid-channels or fairways. They may be passed on either side.
Grounding - When a vessel runs aground, strikes or pounds upon rocks, reefs, or shoals, stranding.
Hazardous Waters - Unusual water hazards such as rips, breakers, bars, shoals, rapids and obstructions.
Bar: A sand, mud or debris shoal, as across the mouth of a river or harbor.
Barograph: A weather instrument that continuously records atmospheric {barometric} pressure.
A wave that breaks sharply over a shoal or where currents meet.
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Grounding - Running aground of a vessel, striking or pounding on rocks, reefs, or shoals; stranding.
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Typical information and regulatory white markers and or buoys with an orange boarder, diamond, circle, or square can be used to provide information or regulations such as a no wake zone or a shoal area.
The change from deep to shallow water modifies the shape of the stream lines, many of which in deep water are approximately in planes normal to the surface of the hull; those in shoal water tend to lie more nearly in horizontal planes, ...
a course plotted on the surface of the globe that is the shortest distance between two points.
Ground Tackle: A collective term for the anchor and anchor gear.
Gunwale (gunnel): The upper railing of a boat's side.
Gunkholing: Cruising in shoal ...
In English Bay there is a lighthouse at Point Atkinson, buoys to mark the beaches, fixed markers for the low tide shoals at Spanish Banks and solar powered flashing beacons at the mouth of False Creek with red right returning and green to port.
"Control Station" is really a more appropriate term for small craft.
BULKHEAD - A vertical partition separating compartments.
BUOY - An anchored float used for marking a position on the water or a hazard or a shoal and for mooring.
 See also: Boat, Hull, Deck, Feet, Forward
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