Englisches nautisches Wörterbuch

Commercial name of a polymer used in sails

Damage at one among the boat systems

One-design-catamaran with a lenght of 5.48x2.28 metres and a sail area of 16.07 square metres

Unused part in a rope or a cable

Sailing without any precise reference points. Position is determined according to course, speed and time.

Walkable surface of a vessel

To hoist and place masts

Superstructure above the deck

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

Area of low atmospheric pressure

A line whih joinsg poinst of equal depth on maps, see also ‚bathymetric‚ ip

Electronic or manual instrument used to mesure depth

A record of the amount of deviation of a ship compass caused by local magnetic effects

Geo-referencered digital cartography for digital navigation devices

Small pleasure boat or rigid tender

Weight of the volume of the water pushed aside by a boat; it is equal to the boat weight.

Raised borders used to prevent water from entering the cockpit

To go over, to pass by a cape or an obstacle.

Halyard with a tackle fixed on the sail end: The double circuit halves the necessary force for the hoisting

Rigging which pulls the boom downwards. If referred to main sail boom, it is called vang.

The vertical distance between the waterline and the deepest part of the keel

An anchor which, after failing in holding the bottom, slides on it because of the boat traction, caused, in its turn, by wind, stream or waves

Maximum depth of a vessel

It indicates a sailing boat driving. Sails pushing the boat.

Decoration made up of a series of little flags

To adorn a boat with little flags on the line running from the bow to the stern and on the top of the mast (s). See also Full Dress

To adorn a boat with little flags along the line running from bow to stern passing trough the top of the mast(s)

Change of the course angle caused by the stream action

When a boat is pushed by stream

Rise around machinery to impede liquid pouring

To drop the anchor on the bottom

Very resistant synthetic fibre used to produce ropes. Its commercial name is ‚spectra‚ i