Timbers

timbers - The frames or ribs of a vessel.
toe rail - Low bulwark on a small decked boat.
toggle - A short rope with an eye at one end and a small piece of wood at the other, to insert in the eye and form a kind of strap or becket.

Timbers jutting from the side of the ship above the hausehole. Used to help support the anchor.
Cavitation
Air trapped around the propellor making it inefficient or at worst completely ineffective.

Shiver me Timbers
This term was used to express shock or surprise. The idea of timbers shivering comes from the vibration set up in the mast (timbers) by either running aground or a solid hit from a larger gun.

Shiver me timbers! - equivalent to "well, I'll be damned." Has no historical basis, but it sounds good!
Smartly - quickly, hurry up. "Do it smartly, men!" ...

Cribbing:
Timbers used to support bottom of ship while it is under construction.
Crimp:
Person who decoys a seaman from his ship and gains money by robbing and, or, forcing him on board another vessel in want of men.

A structure of timbers or steel beams that are bolted to the top of a keel to increase its strength. Also spelled kelson. (back)
king post ...

Futtocks -- The timbers which join and butt above the floors, called first, second and third futtocks.
Gammon iron -- An iron hoop fitted to the side of the stem, or on top of the stem, to receive and hold the bowsprit.

(2) Those timbers in a ship near the bow or stern which are sharply angled from the keel. (3) The operation of turning a ship's head one way or another.

SHAKES Splits or checks in timbers which usually cause a separation of the wood between annular rings. A ring shake is an opening between annular rings; a through shake is an opening which extends between two faces of a timber.

Cable-bitt - Large vertical timbers, morticed into the keel, to which anchor and mooring cables were attached.
Cardinal points- The points of North, South, East and West as marked on a compass rose.

A general term used to refer to catamarans [Top of Page] [Bottom of Page] catamaran A twin-hulled boat catboat A sailboat with a single fore-and-aft sail cathead Timbers projecting from the bow used to secure an anchor catspaw A ...

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.

FALSE KEEL - A plank, timber, or timbers attached to the bottom of the keel to protect it in the event of grounding or hauling. In North America from the eighteenth century onward false keels were called shoes.

CAT HEAD Large timbers projecting from a vessels side to which the anchor is raised and secured. CATAMARAN A twin-hulled boat, with hulls side by side. CAULK To seal the seams of a vessel with oakum and tar.

The benches on which the rowers sat ran from the vessels side to timbers, which, inclined at an angle of about 64 towards the ships stern, reached from the lower to the upper deck. These timbers were, according to Graser, called the diaphragmata.

For clenching the lands the nails are sometimes flattened and tapered to a chisel point, making them easier to bend, but the size of these suggests they were clenched through steamed timbers.

Scantlings The dimensions of a ship's timbers.
Scuttle Deliberately sink a ship. A cask lashed in a convenient part of the ship to hold water for daily use.

Limber Holes: Drainage holes in the bilge timbers of a vessel, allowing water to run to a low point for pumping out.

Stop at the house, pick up life jackets, oars, and shore box, which should contain chart, water, and RUM! (shiver me timbers!). Myers's Rum is the official rum on board Victoria! ...

(1) The widest part of a boat. (2) Abeam, at right angles to the length of the boat. (3) Sturdy wooden timbers running across the width of a boat . Used to support the deck of a wooden boat.
Beam Reach ...

Transom (Transsummer) - One of the principal transverse timbers of the stern, bolted to the sternpost and giving shape to the stern structure.
Traveler - An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.