EBB TIDE: A receding tide or current.
ENSIGN: The national flag, or ‘colours’ displayed from aft by all yachts.
EVEN KEEL: When a boat is floating on its designed waterline, it is said to be floating on an even keel.
tide - The predictable, regular rising and lowering of water in some areas due to the pull of the sun and the moon. Tidal changes can happen approximately every 6 or 12 hours depending on the region.
Tide rode Said of an anchored vessel that is lying to the tide rather than the wind.
Toggle A wooden pin with one end of a line seized to its middle to make fast to an eye.
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.
tide - The vertical rise and fall of the earth's waters, caused by the gravitational forces of the sun and the moon. The highest tides occur at the new moon and full moon. Tides in estuaries, harbours, and bays vary a great deal.
Ebb Tide
A receding tide.
EPIRB
Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. An emergency device that uses a radio signal to alert satellites or passing airplanes to a vessel's position.
Low tide
The point of a tide at which the water is the lowest. The opposite of a high tide.
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neap tide
when the tide range is the least - rising less and dropping less than the other tides during the four week cycle
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flood tide
The incoming tide where the water comes in from the sea, lowering the water level.
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TIDE IS EBBING, and there is little water left over the sill into the marina. In comes your average fibreglass bilge-keeler, doused sails aflogging at a speed that would put C class cats to shame.
Tide changes usually follow a regular diurnal (one tide change daily) or semidiurnal (two daily) schedule.
Tide: The vertical rise and fall of the mass of water in the oceans in response to the gravitational forces of sun and moon.
Tide - Vertical movement of water die to gravity of the moon and the sun
Tide Tables - Yearly published water height above charted soundings
Tiller - Handle attached to the rudder, used to steer some boats ...
Ebb tide
The portion of the tide cycle between high water and the following low water. It is sometimes called "falling tide".
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High tide - High water, the highest normal level reached.
Hull - The main structural body of a vessel, excluding superstructure, masts, sails or rigging.
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Ebb tide: A receding tide.
Entrance: The area of a bow that first meets the water.
Ensign: A nautical version of the national flag of a country usually flown at the stern. -The rank of a officer equivalent to that of midshipman.
A falling tide.
Ensign
A nautical version of the national flag of the country flown at the stern.
weather helm The natural tendency of a sailboat to turn toward the wind, which the helmsman feels as the tiller tries to turn to leeward weather shore Shore from which wind is blowing toward a vessel; Compare to leeward shore weather tide ...
neap tide: a tide of less than average range, occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon.
Adrift Floating free with the currents and tide, not under control. Aft, After Toward the stern (rear) of the boat. Aground When a boat is in water too shallow for it to float in, i.e: the boat's bottom is resting on the ground.
ebb -- tide passing from high to low, with the current going out to sea
El Niño -- a warm inshore current annually flowing south along the coast of Ecuador.
Back and fill - To use the advantage of the tide being with you when the wind is not.
Backstays - Long lines or cables, reaching from the rear of the vessel to the mast heads, used to support the mast.
High Water - the tide's highest point before it starts to fall.
Hull - a boat's bottom shell.
Hull Speed - theoretical top speed for a displacement boat. (sailboat)
Knot - nautical mile (6,076 ft.) per hour ( a measure of speed).
set: the direction of the tide or current, the leeway course of the boat. settee berth: a long cabin seat that converts into a bunk.
Therefore it is still used in whaling boats and rowing boats which have to work against wind and tide, and in surf when the rudder will not act. It is not possible to assign any date for the displacement of the side rudder by the stern rudder.
Tide: The rise and fall of the sea water level due to the moon's gravity
Tidal drift: Strength of the tidal drift
Tidal stream: Current caused by the rise and fall of the tides ...
The night was pitchy dark, the tide running fiercely on the ebb at the rate of five miles an hour at the least. The water was very wild, as one can easily imagine.
Tide: The rise and fall of water level in the oceans.as a result of the attraction of the sun and the moon
Tiller:-A bar or handle which fits into the head of the rudder usedfor turning a boat ...
This allows them to operate in shallow waters, and if needed "dry out"—become beached as the tide falls. The hull shape (or twin-keel layout) allows the boat to sit upright when there is no water.
Look to see what the rest of the fleet are doing, remember about the tide.
Generally if in front of a bunch go high, if behind a bunch go low.
Check for gusts.
Watch for and use waves.
Body position, boat balance for wave riding.
If you are in a tidal zone, check the tide tables, things may be getting worse if the tide is letting out. In this case, one should try, if can be done safely, to place cushions between the hull and the bottom.
In typical Northwest summer's day fashion, the wind dies just before twilight and we are left in the middle of the channel battling a 3-knot flood tide.
Warning: Watch Out for the Tide! Most saltwater areas, including bays and even rivers near the coast, are affected by the tides. As the water level goes up and down, the boat rises and falls.
Notice whether a dock is a floating dock that rises and falls with the tide, (most all of them are) or if it is a fixed dock.
This takes a great amount of skill as you have to maneuver your boat according to rocky areas, the ebb and flow of the tide, and other navigational hazards.
EBB TIDE - A receding tide.
EVEN KEEL - When a boat is floating on its designed waterline, it is said to be floating on an even keel.
EYE OF THE WIND - The direction from which the wind is blowing.
A technique of tacking when the tide is with the ship but the wind is against it.
Overhaul -
To prevent the buntline ropes from chaffing the sails, crew were sent aloft to haul them over the sails. This was called overhauling.
If a bar harbour has to be entered on a flood tide a boat could discharge oil so that it would run in ahead of her. On an ebb tide, the oil could be distributed by some apparatus in connection with the shore.
Mean high water- The depth of the water at average high tide.
Mean low water- The depth of the water at average low tide.
Midships- The widest point on a boat.
Docking is pretty straightforward. Just approach the dock slowly, that's all. When tying up to the dock, leave the painter long enough to handle tide changes (you did not think about that one, uh?) if you are in an area that has a tide.
In many places, the direction of the current is determined by consensus or by the tide. It is important to be thoroughly familiar with the aids to navigation in your region.
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A receding current, ie. tide passing from hight to low with the current going out to sea.
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Drifting - Underway, but proceeding over the bottom without use of engines, oars or sails; being carried along only by the tide, current, or wind.
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Striking Floating Object - Collision with any waterborne object above or below the surface that is free to move with the tide, current or wind, except another vessel, i.e. logs, debris, etc.
To reach or arrive at some place or point, particularly in conditions of an adverse wind or tide. (back)
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When such an operation was to be carried out on a man-of-war it was necessary to have a proper wharf (the right beach might due), a proper turn of the tide, strong points on shore, and strong tackle and many men; ...
Which is to say not much at all, 365 pulls clean sparkplug 365 more pulls clean sparkplug and there you are on the mud because the tide has gone out.
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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.
ANCHOR, STREAM An anchor weighing from about one-fourth to one-third the weight of the main bowers and used when mooring in a narrow channel or harbor to prevent the vessel's stern from swinging with the current or the tide. ANGLE Same as angle bar.
Does not necessarily coincide with the time of completion for the reasons evoked here above, or because the ship has to wait for another reason: tide, daylight,... ETR Estimated Time of Readiness ...
fabric bag for clothes, personal possessions SECURE to fasten, tie down, make safe and shipshape SEIZE to bind with marline or wire to prevent accidental opening or unraveling SET that component of the movement of a ship, caused by current or tide, ...
 See also: Boat, Line, Wind, Anchor, Point
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