CHAPTER 2 PAGE 10
Know Your Boat
Tere are a great variety of sailboats, from eight- foot prams sailed by children, to huge, fast, ocean multihulls with professional crews. Stable daysailers are suitable for family outings, and high- performance dinghies thrill competitive athletes. Yet all sailboats share the same basic elements: Hull, Fins, Rigging, Spars and Sails.
Within these basic elements are many parts with specific names to help sailors communicate.
Monohulls are the most common type of boat, consisting of one hull. Te hull is the body of the boat to which everything else is attached. Multihulls have more than one hull: catamarans have two and trimarans have three hulls.
Te front of any hull is called the bow, and the back is the stern. Te cockpit is the area from which the sailors control the direction of the boat. Te outside surface of the hull below the water is called the bottom.
Te fins help to control the direction of the hull. Te rudder is attached to the stern and connects to the tiller and tiller extension that are used for steering. A “board” helps prevent the hull from sideslipping through the water. Most sailboats have one of the following:
• Centerboard, which swings up and down in the center of the boat inside a structure called a trunk.
• Daggerboard, which is pushed and pulled almost straight up and down in a trunk.
• Leeboard, which swings like a centerboard, but is attached to the side of the hull.
• Keel, which is fixed to the hull and cannot be raised.
Bow Tiller Extension Centerboard Trunk cockpit Centerboard Table of Contents Tiller Stern
Rudder
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