Practical Boat-Sailing - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
OVERHAULING.--To haul a rope through a block; to examine any thing thoroughly; to gain upon a vessel or object ahead.
PAINTER.--A short rope in the bows of a boat by which she is secured.
TO PART.--To tear asunder; i.e., the cable has parted; the main-sheet has parted.
TO Pa.s.s A LAs.h.i.+NG.--To wind a rope round a spar or sail.
PAY.--To rub on pitch or tar with a large brush.
TO PAY OFF.--To make a yacht's head recede from the wind by hauling the jib to windward, and easing off the main-boom to leeward.
TO PEAK UP.--To elevate the outer or after end of a gaff, so that the sail may set better.
PLYING.--Turning to windward.
p.o.o.pING.--A yacht is said to be p.o.o.ped when she is struck by a sea that comes on board over the stern or quarter.
PORT.--_See_ larboard.
PREVENTER.--Any thing to secure or take off the strain, as preventer jib-sheet.
PENNANT.--A long narrow flag.
QUARTER.--That part of the yacht's side contained between the beam and stern.
RAKE.--The sheer of masts from the perpendicular.
RANGE OF CABLE.--A sufficient length overhauled and ready so as to allow the anchor to reach the bottom without fouling.
TO REEF.--To reduce a sail by fastening it down to a boom or jack-stay by means of reef-points.
TO REEVE.--To pa.s.s a rope through a block.
TO RIDE.--To be held at anchor.
TO RIGHT.--A yacht is said to right when she rises to an upright position again, after having been thrown on her beam-ends by a sudden squall.
TO RIGHT THE HELM.--To put it amids.h.i.+ps, so that the rudder will be in a line with the keel.
TO RUN DOWN.--When one yacht sinks another by running over her.
SCANT.--The wind is said to be scant when a yacht will barely lay her course.
SCOPE.--To pay out more of the cable when at anchor.
TO SCUD.--To run before the wind in a storm.
TO SCUTTLE.--To make holes in a yacht's bottom to sink her.
TO SERVE.--To wind any thing round a rope so as to save it from chafing.
TO SEIZE.--To make fast or bind.
TO SHEER.--To vary to the right and left from a direct course.
TO s.h.i.+P.--To place or receive any thing on board; as, to s.h.i.+p a sea, to s.h.i.+p a crew.
TO s.h.i.+VER.--To make the sails shake in the wind's eye.
SHOAL.--The land beneath the water that approaches near the surface, or is left bare at low water.
THE SLACK OF A ROPE.--The part that hangs loose.
TO SLIP A CABLE.--To let it run out overboard, and release the yacht from the anchor, being first generally buoyed so as to be recovered.
TO SLUE.--To turn any thing about.
SNUB.--Used in reference to the cables, in checking the yacht, after they have been paid out.
TO SOUND.--To ascertain the depth of water by means of a lead-line.
TO TAKE A SPELL.--To relieve any one at any duty; as, to take a spell at the wheel.
TO SPILL.--To take the wind out of a sail by easing off the sheets or otherwise, so as to remove the pressure of the wind.
TO SPLICE.--To join two ropes together by interweaving the strands.
TO SPRING A MAST.--To crack or split it.
A SPRING.--A rope made fast to the cable, and taken on board aft, in order to haul the yacht's side in any direction.
SPRING-TIDES.--The highest tides, which occur at the full and change of the moon.
TO STAND ON.--To keep on in one's course.
TO STAND BY.--To be ready.
STARBOARD.--The right side of a yacht, the observer looking from aft forward.
TO STEER.--To control the yacht with the rudder and tiller.
STRANDED.--A yacht is said to be stranded when she is so far on sh.o.r.e that she cannot be floated.
TO STRIKE.--To beat against the bottom; to hit suddenly any object below the surface of the water.
SWIG OFF.--To take a turn with a rope at a cleat, and then pull upon it laterally, so as to gather in all the slack.
TO TACK.--To advance by a series of angles toward the direction from which the wind proceeds.
