Yard (sailing)
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yard
A spar attached to the mast and used to hoist square sails.
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Yard
Horizontal wooden boom to which sail is firmly attached.
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Yard: The spar supporting the top of a lugsail. It is set at an angle from the horizontal.
Yaw: To turn from side to side, usually unintentionally.
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In yachts with square sails - the spar on which the sail is suspended.
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Yard - spars from which sails are hung on square-rigged ships.
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Yard A spar suspended from a mast, to spread a sail.
Yaw When the ship's head is swung by the action of the waves.
Young flood The first movements in a flood tide.
yard - A location where boats are constructed, repaired or stored; A spar, crossing the mast, on which square sails are fitted. A spar used to extend a sail.
yard arm - The extremities of yards.
Yard, Yards, Yardarm: A wooden spar, comparatively long and slender, slung at its centre from, and forward of, a mast and serving to support and extend a square sail which is bent to it.
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A slender rod or spar tapering towards the ends fastened at right angles across a mast to support a sail.
yard, yardarm
The horizontal spar in a square rig or in a yacht club's flagpole. Evening is falling when the sun is over the yardarm.
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Yard: A wooden spar, comparatively long and slender, slung at its centre from, and forward of, a mast and serving to support and extend a square sail which is bent to it. _______________________________
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A long spar, tapered at the ends, attached at its middle to a mast and running athwartships; used to support the top of a square sail. (back)
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A yard or pole extending the head or foot of the topsail beyond the topmast or gaff of a gaff-rigged boat.
Jam Cleat
A cleat designed to allow a line to be made fast quickly by jamming it down.
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Yard: A rod or spar fastened across a mast to support a sail.
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Zephyr: A gentle breeze. - The west wind.
Yard
Fenced off, outdoor storage and repair area.
Yawl
A vessel's small boat moved by one oar.
Synonym: a jolly-boat.
A small sailboat rigged fore-and-aft, with a short mizzenmast astern of the cockpit; distinguished from ketch.
Cross:Jack Yard:
The lower yard on a mizzen mast of a square:rigged ship.
The Brooklin Boat Yard is building Anna in cold molded construction. Anna will have a saildrive and some find saildrives a bit too non-conventional.
BLINKER LIGHTS Two electric lanterns secured at the ends of the signal yard and operated by controllers and a telegraph key for use in night signaling by code.
Earing - A small line used to fasten the upper corners of a square sail to its yard.
Ease, Ease Off - To let out a line or sail slowly; to slacken or relieve tension on a line; to take pressure off.
BEND To make fast, eg to bend a sail onto a yard. A knot used to bend one rope onto another. BEARING The direction of an object expressed either as a true bearing as shown on the chart, or as a bearing relative to the heading of the boat.
Staysail - A sail that is set on a stay, and not on a yard or a mast.
Stem - the timber at the very front of the bow.
Strake - On wooden boats, a line of planking running from the bow to the stern along the hull.
Clew - To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard lowering the lower aft corner of a sail.
The commandant of a navy yard and station, who is usually a rear-admiral, is its commander-in-chief. His official assistants are called heads of departments.
The sail is laced to a yard and boom and is hoisted by a single halyard rove through a sheave hole in the masthead and spliced to the eye of the hook of a galvanized-iron traveler, to which a strop on the yard is hooked, as shown in the illustration.
yacht General term for a boat used solely for the personal pleasure of the owner pleasure yachtsmen Owners or operators of a yacht yard A horizontal spar from which a square sail is suspended yardarm The tapering end of a yard yaw ...
It is fastened under a round spar which is named a yard. The yard is horizontally attached to the mast by its middle.
In the relief to the left you can see an Egyptian sailing ship around 1500 B.C..
Shown in the picture on the right is a large man-of-war which is restrained by draft and is surrounded by a 500 yard security zone.
Yard - a spar usually fixed horizontally to a mast to support a square sail.
Yardarm-That part of the yard that lies between the lift and the outer end
Yarn-A sea tale.
Q - A quetion about lowering flag from a yacht club yard arm has arisen here in Marblehead, MA. Specifically, the Canadian flag was flown from the yardarm before and during the Marblehead-to-Halifax ocean race recently. Clearly, the U.S.
Yard: A spar usually fixed horizontally to a mast to support a sail.
Yardarm: is what the top of the square sail is tied to.
Yarn: A sea tale.
Yawl boat: Smaller powered boat used to provide steerage-way when not under sail.
Not many know that it was invented in 1935 when Paul Sperry watched his Cocker Spaniel run, sure-footed, across Sperry's icy back yard.
Spar: A stout pole forming a ships mast, yard, gaff, boom, etc.
Starboard: The right hand side of a vessel facing forward.
Steerage:The lowest class accommodations on a passenger ship.
A square sail hung from a yard on the mast. Best used when sailing down wind.
SSB
Single sideband radio. A type of radio used on a boat to transmit for long distances.
PARREL - Band by which a yard is fastened to a mast.
PATROON - Captain of a ship; coxswain of a longboat.
POOP - Enclosed structure at stern of ship above main deck.
To roll a sail up and secure it to yard or boom.
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Furl- To roll a sail up and secure it to yard or boom.
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top
Galley- A boat's kitchen.
One of these lights or shapes shall be exhibited near the foremast head and one at each end of the fore yard. These lights or shapes indicate that it is dangerous for another vessel to approach within 1000 meters of the mineclearance vessel.
The officers' gangway or sea ladder is shipped on this side and this side of the quarterdeck is reserved for the captain. The flag or pennant of the ship's captain or senior officer in command is generally hoist on the starboard yard.
You should practice ashore in your back yard until you feel very comfortable. As we said above the bow line should be the longest of your rafting lines. When you throw it do not throw it directly at the receiving person.
Henderson's yard, Glasgow, in 1899 ; Clara, 185 tons ; and L'Espérance, 295 tons ; both these very successful cruisers were designed by Mr. J. M.
Yard Tackles are composed of dou- ble and single blocks; the double blocks are spliced into the lower ends of pendants, and the single blocks are strapped with hooks and thimbles. (PI. 10, figs. 5 and 6).
to the very top of the mast, but instead to a point 3/4 ~ 7/8, etc., of the way up the mast.
FREEBOARD - The minimum vertical distance from the surface of the water to the gunwale.
FURL - To roll up and bind a sail neatly upon its respective yard or ...
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Walter Drive - V drive inboard transmission
Windward - toward or into the source of the wind.
WLL - water line length
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 See also: Boat, Aft, Sail, Mast, Forward
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