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General boating
bar pilot
Boat; General boating
A bar pilot guides ships over the dangerous sandbars at the mouth of rivers and bays.
monkey's fist
Boat; General boating
a ball woven out of line used to provide heft to heave the line to another location. The monkey fist and other heaving-line knots were sometimes weighted with lead (easily available in the form of ...
tacking
Boat; General boating
1. Zig-zagging so as to sail directly towards the wind (and for some rigs also away from it). 2. Going about (qv).
cheeks
Boat; General boating
1. Wooden blocks at the side of a spar. 2. The sides of a block or gun-carriage.
ahull
Boat; General boating
1. When the boat is lying broadside to the sea. 2. To ride out a storm with no sails and helm held to leeward.
waterway
Boat; General boating
1. Waterway, a navigable body of water. 2. A strake of timber laid against the frames or bulwark stanchions at the margin of a laid wooden deck, usually about twice the thickness of the deck ...
fish
Boat; General boating
1. To repair a mast or spar with a fillet of wood. 2. To secure an anchor on the side of the ship for sea (otherwise known as "catting".)
