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Boat
Dealing with relatively small, usually open, waterbound craft.
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leeway
Boat; General boating
The amount that a ship is blown leeward by the wind. See also weatherly.
leech
Boat; General boating
The aft or trailing edge of a fore-and-aft sail; the leeward edge of a spinnaker; a vertical edge of a square sail. The leech is susceptible to twist, which is controlled by the ...
spanker-mast
Boat; General boating
The aft-most mast of a fore-and-aft or gaff-rigged vessel such as schooners, barquentines, and barques. A full-rigged ship has a spanker sail but not a spanker-mast (see ...
propeller walk or prop walk
Boat; General boating
tendency for a propeller to push the stern sideways. In theory a right hand propeller in reverse will walk the stern to port.
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