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Dealing with relatively small, usually open, waterbound craft.

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flatback

Boat; General boating

A Great Lakes slang term for a vessel without any self unloading equipment.

holiday

Boat; General boating

A gap in the coverage of newly applied paint, slush, tar or other preservative.

snow

Boat; General boating

A form of brig where the gaff spanker or driver is rigged on a "snow mast" a lighter spar supported in chocks close behind the main-mast.

lugsail

Boat; General boating

A four-sided fore-and-aft sail supported by a spar along the top that is fixed to the mast at a point some distance from the center of the spar. See Lugger.

spanker

Boat; General boating

A fore-and-aft or gaff-rigged sail on the aft-most mast of a square-rigged vessel and the main fore-and-aft sail (spanker sail) on the aft-most mast of a (partially) fore-and-aft ...

horn timber

Boat; General boating

A fore-and-aft structural member of the hull sloping up and backwards from the keel to support the counter.

pontoon

Boat; General boating

A flat-bottomed vessel used as a ferry, barge, car float or a float moored alongside a jetty or a ship to facilitate boarding.

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