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aft

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Back side of the seacraft. The term is not used on tis own, but in a phrase: aft-end - at the rear end of the seacraft; aft wings, the rear; aft thruster - stern thruster, taking ...

main sail

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The biggest sail in a boat. It hangs from the main mast.

re-docking

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Act or efect of accomplishing a new dockage of a craft, for any fact or reason, without having for this left the port administration area.

fore-topsoil

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Uppermast which grows from the lower mast of the foremast (the first from, from aft to fore) This designation also applies to the uppermast structural cables: backlashes, stay and ...

breakers

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The breaking of the waves, mainly when facing obstacles which are opposite them, which is very common at the coast and in shallow depth. The same as breaking wave.

set of sails

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The set of all sails in a ship. It is divided in two classes: round sails, those that cover from BB to EB (port side to starboard), perpendicular to the keel, and fore-and-aft ...