Boating Dictionary

Rigging used on topmast ships to keep yards in position. It doesn't exist on triangular sails, it can be identified with the spinnaker arm

To fix the tack angle

Terminal part sternward the deck bridge; western white light

Thinning of the final end of the mast in order to facilitate flexibility and decrease weight

High narrow fore stay sail to raise under the spinnaker

Fore sail used windward the spinnaker

Term which represents ‚T‚ in the international phonetic alphabet.

Spinnaker bag

The light but resistant wood of the teak, a tree of the verbena family. It is generally used in the construction of deck plan and interiors.

Small service boat

A layman, an inexperienced person

Area of the sea immediately adjacent to the shores of a state and subject to the territorial jurisdiction of that state. It generally extends about 12 miles starting from the coastal line.

The rise and fall of ocean waters caused by the gravitational effect of sun and moon

Phase between two tide flows

To approach to a pier or another boat laterally

A group of mechanisms which transmit motion to the rudder

Pole of medium length used to steer the rudder

When the anchor is exactly under the boat

To reduce the angular distance between the bow and the point where wind comes from

The volume of all interior spaces in a boat

Platform on the masts used to allow a bette view. In old sailing boats, it was also used for sail riggings

Metal structure fixed to a buoy to indicate a danger or a position

Circuit of the staysail halyard

Squaresail fixed to the fore topgallant yard

Rope used to support boom and general shafts when sails are not raised

The outside face of the hull between the water and the deck.

Big rope generally used for anchorage

To put a boat ashore

Line which joins two waypoints.

Central part of the stern

Terminal part of a vessel

Mobile gantry crane.

System of ropes and blocks used to expand strain

Fishing boat generally used in Northern Seas for ocean fishing

Craft with chine hull and centreboard conceived for sailing training; it is provided with a manisail and a jib and it can host up to 4 people.

Electric-hydraulic system used to regulate the triming mounted on some outboard motors (generally the most powerful ones).

Vessel with three hulls

Member of the crew who regulates sails

To heave anchor

Series of polar bearings to determine the ship's position

Sailing direction determined by the angle between the vessel keel and true geographic north.

The change course. In sailing boats, it is done by passing with the bow through the wind direction.

Equipment used to puts tension on stadings rigging

Instrument used to stretch standing riggings

Circle whose ray is equal to the lenght of the scope within which a moored boat can rotate pushed by wind

The difference of the angle of a sail to the wind