STANCHION: Stainless steel or bronze rod providing support for the guardrails at the deck edge.
STANDING PART: That part of a line which is made fast. The main part of a line as distinguished from the bight and the end.
Stanchion
Wood (usually mahogany or teak) deck support that transfers the compression forces from the mast to the hull. Also serves as the mounting platform for the centerboard winch and wooden spinnaker halyard cleats..
Starboard ...
Stanchion- A post or upright support for guard rail and lifelines.
Standing rigging- The shrouds and stays that support a mast; these are permanent fixtures while the mast is in place.
Starboard- The right side of the boat, facing the bow.
Stanchion
A post near the edge of the deck, used to support lifelines.
Starboard
The right side of a boat, from the perspective of a person at the stern of the boat and looking toward the bow. The opposite of port.
Stanchions: Vertical poles that stand on the outer edge of the deck to hold the lifelines.
Standing Rigging: The non-moving rods and lines that support the mast and sails.
Stanchions: Upright metal posts running around the outside of the deck supporting the lifelines.
Stand: This refers to the short period of time where the tide is neither rising or falling. (At a stand still.) ...
stanchion - A metal post used to hold a deck's lifelines.
stand - The period of time when the vertical rise/fall of the tide has ceased. A sail is said to stand when it does not lift or shake.
Stanchion
A post used to support guardrails and lifelines.
Standing Rigging ...
The stanchions themselves support double lifelines, one of which is shackled directly to the hinged boarding ladder on the swim step so that it will fall away to provide a wide and easy access (un accès facile et large!) to the swim step.
stanchion: an upright metal pole, bolted to the deck, and used to support permanent fixtures such as life lines. standing part: the inactive part of a line often near the midsection.
Also a small plate fitted at the end of a stanchion. SOUNDING PIPE A vertical pipe in an oil or water tank, used to guide a sounding device when measuring the depth of liquid in the tank. Also called a Sounding Tube.
Also called a stanchion.
Pillow - Block of timber mounted on the deck just inside the bow on which the inner end of the bowsprit was supported.
Devil seam: The devil was possibly a slang term for the garboard seam, hence "between the devil and the deep blue sea" being an allusion to keel hauling, but a more popular version seems to be the seam between the waterway and the stanchions ...
Enter- 1ng Ropes hang from the upper part of the stanchions alongside the ladder at the gangways. Guest Rope is f?
It can be as simple as a dock line tied to the boom and a cleat or stanchion forward of the mast. Permanent preventers can be rigged from the boom on both sides, running forward to blocks at the rail and then back to the cockpit.
"Lifelines" are made of wire or chain installed above the toe rail connected between stanchion's (posts used to support the lifeline). If they are made of a solid material they are called life-rails.
A wire encircling the deck above the rail, supported by metal posts (stanchions), to help keep the crew on deck. Double lifelines have two wires, one above the other.
life raft ...
Jockey Pole:
A spar used to prevent the spinnaker guy from fouling on the stanchions.
If your sailboat does not have a midship horn cleat, you may use a chain plate (attaches the shroud to the boat), a hole in the toe rail or the jib's fairlead. It is not advisable to use a stanchion. Midship Spring line Animated GIF.
Coated safety wire running through stanchions around the perimeter of the deck lift The wind causes a lift when it strikes the sails from a more favorable angle, from further aft, making it possible for the boat to point higher (to windward).
Stanchions: Wooden or metal uprights used as supports (posts).
Stack: The ship's funnel or smokestack.
Stand by: A preparatory order (wait: be ready).
Standard compass: The magnetic compass used by the navigator as a standard.
depth on a chart; the process of measuring fuel or water in a ship's tanks SPLICE to join two lines by interweaving and tucking together individual strands in a prescribed pattern STARBOARD looking forward, the right side of a vessel STANCHION a ...
 See also: Point, Running, Hull, Secure, Deck
  
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