Home > Industry/Domain > Boat
Boat
Dealing with relatively small, usually open, waterbound craft.
3Categories 9559Terms
Add a new termContributors in Boat
Boat > General boating 
freeboard
Boat; General boating
The height of a ship's hull (excluding superstructure) above the waterline. The vertical distance from the current waterline to the lowest point on the highest continuous ...
jigger-mast
Boat; General boating
The fourth mast, although ships with four or more masts were uncommon, or the aft most mast where it is smallest on vessels of less than four masts.
righting couple
Boat; General boating
The force which tends to restore a ship to equilibrium once a heel has altered the relationship between her centre of buoyancy and her centre of gravity.
Sub-categories
- General boating (4999)
- Sailboat (3520)
- Yacht (1024)