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YACHT: A pleasure vessel, a pleasure boat; in American usage the idea of size and luxury is conveyed, either sail or power.
YAW: To swing or steer off course, as when running with a quartering sea.
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Yaw
Swinging off course, usually in heavy seas. The bow moves toward one side of the intended course.
Yaw: To turn from side to side, usually unintentionally.
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Yaw - To swing or steer off course, as when running with a quartering sea.
Yaw: Fail to hold a straight course, side-to-side movement, which is typically caused by rough or confused sea conditions.
YAW: To swing off course, as when due to the impact of a following or quartering sea.
YAWL: A two-masted sailboat with the small mizzen mast stepped abaft the rudder post.
Yaw When the ship's head is swung by the action of the waves.
Young flood The first movements in a flood tide.
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yaw
To veer off course.
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Small pieces of zinc that attach to metal boat and engine components to help protect them from corrosion due to electrolysis, an effect caused when dissimilar metals are placed in a saltwater solution.
yaw - To steer or swing off course, as when running with a quartering sea. Generally when a vessel does not steer a straight or steady course.
Yaw
To swing off course; caused by the action of waves or bad steering.
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Yaw - Pushed off course by wave action or other force
Yawing - Tendency of a powerboat at anchor to drift around
Yellow Buoys - Indicate specific areas (military, fishing, anchorage, etc) ...
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YARN Fibers that are twisted together to form a rope. YAW A vessel which will not hold a steady course, but swings from side to side of it, is said to yaw.
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In practice, both aileron and rudder control input are used together to turn an aircraft, the ailerons imparting roll, the rudder imparting yaw, and also compensating for a phenomenon called adverse yaw.
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 ...
As a point of terminology, there are three directions of rotation of a boat, Roll, Pitch, and Yaw.
Caused by waves, wind and can be induced by yaw.
Pitch (Around y). A rocking motion between bow and stern. Mostly wave induced.
Yaw (Around z). This is what the rudder is supposed to do.
yaw, yawing -- to turn from side to side in an uneven course
zincs -- zinc plates attached to the hull to minimize electrolysis (and ultimate failure) of the metal in the rudder and other areas
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A fore and aft rocking motion of a boat. Also see roll and yaw. How much a propeelor is curved. A substance used to seal cracks in wooden planks.
pitch poled
When a boat's stern is thrown over its bow.
yachtingTo cruise in a motor yacht that typically ranges from 40- to 89- feet long. yawTo veer off course.
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YACHT - A pleasure boat; in American usage the idea of size and luxury is conveyed, either sail or power.
YAW - To swing or steer off course, as when running with a quartering sea.
For a vessel, however finely balanced and carefully steered, owing to various conditions of breeze and sea, has a tendency to yaw and fly up in the wind.
WHARF - Manmade structure parallel to the shoreline for loading, unloading or making fast.
WHIPPING - Method of binding the end of a rope with small twine.
WINDWARD - The direction from which the wind is blowing.
YAW - To swing off course, ...
Personally I think the individual who decided upon the weird spelling of yacht should be shact YAW side to side movement of the bow of the ship
rick.chapman@jhuapl.edu
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 See also: Course, Forward, Bow, Rudder, Boat
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