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1 Nautical terms AND MORE…

2 Ebb tide: the period between high and low tide during which water flows away from shore.

3 Coracle: Thwart: a seat lying across a boat occupied by an oarsman.
A small, round, or very broad boat made of wickerwork or interwoven laths covered with a waterproof layer of animal skin, canvas, tarred or oiled cloth, or the like.

4 Sea Gully (Gully): knife/also a folding Sea Gully.

5 The Boat…

6 The Jolly Roger

7 Mizzen Shrouds…

8 Hawser: heavy rope for mooring or towing (mooring is to secure a ship as with an anchor)

9 Boat locations: Stern: back of boat Bow: front of boat
Astern: position behind the boat

10 Hollow, lowermost portion of a ship.
Hull Hollow, lowermost portion of a ship.

11 Bulwark: a solid wall enclosing the perimeter of a weather or main deck for the protection of a persons or objects on deck.

12 Scuppers Hole in ship’s side to carry water overboard from deck (often on bulwark)

13 Mast: a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, rigging, etc. Spar: a stout pole like a mast.

14 Flying Jib: front jib Jibs Any of various triangular sails set forward of a fore-topmast staysails.

15 Jib-boom: spar forming a continuation of a bowsprit.
Bowsprit: spar projecting from the upper end of the bow.

16 The Stays: a rope, cable, chain, usually one of a set, used for bracing uprights, such as masts.

17 Tack: (tackle) rope for extending the lower forward of a course.
Gunwale: sheer strake of wooden vessel (strake: continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming the hull shell, deck, etc.)

18 Forecastle: upper deck of a ship forward of the foremast, or the forward part of the ship with the sailor’s living quarters.

19 The after deck: located toward the stern (back) of the ship.

20 Other sailing terms… Yawed leeway Leeward
To deviate temporarily from a straight course. The amount or angle of the drift of a ship to leeward from its heading. Point toward which the wind blows.


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