TAFFRAIL: The section of toerail which runs athwartships across the stern.
TENDER: A generally accepted term meaning a yacht’s dinghy.
THROTTLE: A device to control a boats speed.
THWART: A seat or brace running laterally across a boat.
taffrail log
Walker log; a propeller drawn through the water that operates an odometer on the boat registering the distance sailed
tail ...
taffrail - The rail at the stern of the boat.
tail block - A block with a tail or piece of rope stropped to it for making fast the block instead of a hook.
tail on - An order to take hold of a rope and help haul.
Taffrail - The rail at the stern of the boat.
Tang - A fitting, often of sheet metal, used to attach standing rigging to a spar, or to the hull.
Thwart - A transverse structural member in the cockpit. In small boats, often used as a seat.
Taffrail - A rail at the stern of the boat that covers the head of the counter timbers.
Tailshaft - A kind of metallic shafting (a rod of metal) to hold the propeller and connected to the power engine.
Taffrail: Rail at the stern of a vessel
Thwart: A fixed seat or board in the hull of a dinghy
Tail: To pull on the tail of a sheet when winching ...
TAFFRAIL - The rail round a vessel's stern.
THIMBLE - A broad ring of metal, having a concave outer surface, around which the end of a rope is spliced, so that the thimble forms an eye to the rope.
A taffrail log (patent log) is towed astern; it also measures speed. 2) A book (log, log book) in which the crew records observations concerning the weather, navigation, and other matters. To log or make a log is to write down this information.
Patent Log Mechanical devise used for measuring the distance a vessel has sailed It is also called a Taffrail Log
Pay out: - to feed line over the side of the boat, hand over hand.
Whistling psalms to the taffrail - To give good advice to someone that will ignore it. "I tried to tell him, but I was whistling psalms to the taffrail." ...
There are several patent self-registering logs which record the distance run, either on the taffrail or on dials on the log itself.
The stern is the rear or aft part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite of the bow, the foremost part of a ship.
 See also: Boom, Boat, Forward, Deck, Hull
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