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Appendix | GLOSSARY


Crew Briefing - a meeting where members of a sailing crew discuss and coordinate various aspects of their roles, responsibilities, and plan for a specific sailing activity or race.


Crowning – the process of securing a coiled line. Cunningham - a line running through a grommet about eight inches up from the tack of a mainsail that is used to tighten the luff of the sail.


Current - the horizontal movement of water caused by tides, wind and other forces.


D


Daysailer - a small sailboat. Dead downwind - sailing in a direction straight downwind.


Deck - the mostly flat surface area on top of the boat. Deep broad reach - sailing as far down wind as possible with both sails still full of wind. Depower - to release the power from the sails by allowing them to luff or making them flatter. This is done to reduce heel.


Dinghy - a small sailboat or rowboat. Displacement - the weight of a boat; therefore the amount of water it displaces.


Dock - 1. - the wooden structure where a boat ma be tied up. 2. - the act of bringing the boat to rest alongside the structure. Dockline - a line used to secure the boat to the dock. Downhaul - a line used to pull down on the movable gooseneck on some boats to tighten the luff of the mainsail. The Cunningham has the same function on other boats. Downwind - away from the direction of the wind. Draft - the depth of a boat’s keel from the water’s surface.


Driver - the person responsible for steering the boat. E


Ease - to let out a line or sail. Ebb - an outgoing current. Engine cut-off switch - Emergency Button or switch that stops the outboard.


F


Fairlead - a fitting that guides a jib sheet or other lines back to the cockpit or along the deck. Fairway - a channel. Fake - to lay out a line on deck using large loops to keep it from becoming tangled.


Fall off - see Head down. Fast - secured. Fathom - a measurement of the depth of water. One fathom equals six feet. Fender - a rubber bumper used to protect a boat by keeping it from hitting a dock.


Fend off - push off. Fetch - a course on which a boat can make its destination without having to tack.


Fitting - a piece of nautical hardware. Figure-8 knot - a knot designed to act as a stopper in the end of a line that takes the form of an eight.


Figure-8 rescue - a manuever used to return to a person or object in the water.


Float Plan - a brief description of your intended boating activity that is left with a trusted friend, family member, or sailing club office. A float should include the vessel’s name and description, names of persons onboard, destination, planned time of return, and cell phone number on board.


Flood - an incoming current. Flooding - a vessel taking on water. Following sea - waves hitting the boat from astern. Foot - the bottom edge of a sail. Foredeck - the part of a boat’s deck forward of the mast.


Fore - forward. Forepeak - a storage area in the bow (below the deck).


Foresail - a jib or a genoa. Forestay - the standing rigging running from the bow to the mast to which, the jib is hanked on. Forward - toward the bow. Fouled - tangled. Foul-weather gear - water-resistant clothing. Freeboard - the height of the hull above the water’s surface. Fuel line - tubing that carries fuel from the fuel tank to the outboard.


Full - not luffing. Furl - to fold or roll up a sail. Furling line - a control line led from the furling drum to the cockpit, used to turn the drum and control the size of the jib.


G


Gaff - on some boats, a spar along the top edge of a four-sided sail.


Gear - generic term for sailing equipment. Gear lever – shift lever on an outboard used to select forward, neutral, or reverse gear.


Genoa - a large jib whose clew extends aft of the mast.


Give-way vessel - the vessel required to give way to another boat when they may be on a collision course. Glide zone - the distance a sailboat takes to coast to a stop.


Gooseneck - the strong fitting that connects the boom to the mast.


Green Beacon - is a square, odd-numbered green sign mounted to a piling that marks the left side of a channel when returning from sea. Grinding - the movement of the winch handle that rotates the barrel of the winch.


Grommet - a reinforcing metal ring set in a sail. Ground tackle - the anchor and rode (chain and line). Gudgeon - a fitting attached to the stern of a boat into which the pintles of a rudder are inserted. Gunwale (GUN-el) - the edge of the deck where it meets the topsides.


Gust - see puff. H


Halyard - a line used to hoist or lower a sail. Hank - a snap hook that is used to connect the luff of a jib onto the forestay.


“Hard a-lee” - the command given to the crew just prior to tacking.


Hard over - to turn the tiller as far as possible in one direction.


Hatch - a large covered opening in the deck. Haul in - to tighten a line.


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