thwart - A seat running across the width a small boat.
thwartships - Also athwartships. Across the width of a boat.
tidal atlas - Small charts showing tidal stream directions and rate of flow.
thwart
A transverse structural member in the cockpit. In small boats, often used as a seat.
thwartships ...
Thwart: A transverse seat or crossbeam.
Tiller: The arm, or lever, used to control the angle of the rudder.
ThwartA seat or brace running laterally across a boat.
TideThe periodic rise and fall of water level in the oceans.
TillerA bar or handle for turning a boat's rudder or an outboard motor.
THWART: A seat or brace running laterally across a boat; also, a rower's seat extending across the boat.
TIDE: The periodic rise and fall of water level in the oceans.
Thwarts Planks placed across the boat to form seats.
Tiller Lever for turning the rudder.
Tide rode Said of an anchored vessel that is lying to the tide rather than the wind.
Thwartships
At right angles to the centerline of the boat.
Tide
The periodic rise and fall of water level in the oceans.
Tiller
A bar or handle for turning a boat's rudder or an outboard motor.
Topsides ...
Thwart - Crossways seat in a rowboat.
Transom - The transverse (crossways) piece forming the stern of a square-ended boat. Some boats have a transom door that allows you to walk through, instead of climbing over the transom.
Thwarts -- The transverse seats in boats.
Tumble home -- When the sides of a vessel near the deck incline inward, the opposite to flaring.
Tyers -- Ropes that secure a mainsail when stowed.
THWART - A seat or brace running laterally across a boat.
THWARTSHIPS - At right angles to the centerline of the boat.
TIDE - The periodic rise and fall of water level in the oceans.
Between thwarts 3 ft. r in.
5. Pinnace. Between thwarts 3 ft. Carvel-built. Elm. .. 36 10' 2" 6. Launch. Between thwarts 3 ft. I in. To carry 140 men. Double skin diagonal. Teak. .. 42 I I' 6" 7. Berthon collapsible boats weighing 7 cwt.
BACK BOARD A portable back support nicely designed and fitted on the after side of the stern thwart in a small motor or row boat. BACK STAY Stays which extend from all mast levels, except the lower, to the ship's side at some distance abaft the mast.
THWART - A transverse plank in a boat or galley; used to seat rowers, support masts, or provide lateral stiffness.
THWARTSHIPS - At right angles to the centerline of the boat.
TIDE - The periodic rise and fall of water level in the oceans.
Thwart: A fixed seat or board in the hull of a dinghy
Tail: To pull on the tail of a sheet when winching
Tell-tales: Strips of some kind of fabric that are attached to sails to indicate the wind and right trim ...
There is a bin in the galley thwart to stow cooking utensils. Each crewmember has a watertight compartment built into the thwart to stow their gear. There are more watertight bins built into the cockpit sole for food and supplies.
To thwart the plans of; frustrate. 3. Archaic. To defeat in battle; vanquish. noun Discomfiture.
Usually there is one set of oarlocks for each thwart (seat). 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.
grooved round or teardrop-shaped metal or plastic fitting spliced into an eye of rope or wire to prevent chafe and distortion of the eye through-bolt A deck fastening that penetrates the deck and is fastened below with a nut and washer thwart ...
Of course it would be rather awkward to have such a large locker as this in so small a boat, and the airtight spaces are usually contrived by having a number of lockers, some under the thwarts, in the bow end and stern end of the boat, ...
Across, generally across the slip; as the thwarts or seats on which rowers sit
Ballast ...
double-banked - When men sit on the same thwart to row oars from different sides of a boat. Double-banked frigates were two deckers, with the upper deck ports disguised.
double block - A block with twin sheaves, or pulleys.
 See also: Boat, Wind, Stern, Sail, Anchor
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