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Parts of a Boat
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| bilge - The inside, bottom of a boat. |
| centerboard - A strong, usually weighted, wood or metal fin lowered vertically on the centerline to increase lateral resistance and reduce leeway. |
| centerboard pennant - A line attached to one end of the centerboard for raising and lowering it. |
| centerboard trunk - The narrow box housing the centerboard. |
| hiking boards - Movable supports pushed out from a boat's side to let her crew put their weight farther to windward. |
| keel - The fore-and-aft structural backbone of a boat: also any additional permanent, vertical underwater projection bolted to or molded as part of the structural keel to increase resistance to leeway and for greater stability. |
| rudder - The boat's underwater steering blade; a movable blade at the stern, connected to the tiller, by which a boat is steered. |
| tiller - The boat's steering rod or stick, fastened to the rudder head for turning the rudder. |
Sailing Terms |
| accidental jibe - A situation with the boat's stern facing into the wind, when the wind shifts to the side on which the mainstail is set, causing the boom to sweep violently across the boat. |
| cranky - With little resistance to heeling; tender. |
| lee helm - With the tiller to leeward. A boat carries lee helm when the tiller must be kept to leeward to hold her on course. |
reaching - Sailing across the wind; the point of sailing between close-hauled and running. |
| sailing lines - The theoretical point in heeling at which a boat sails best, with least resistance to the waves. |
| stiff - With a high resistance to heeling. |
| tender - with little resistance to heeling; cranky. |
| under bare poles - Sailing before the wind with all sails lowered |
| weather helm - With the helm to weather. A boat carries weather helm when the tiller must be held to weather to keep her on course. |
| Verbs |
| foot, footing - To move ahead;keeping the boat moving. |
| list - To heel as a result of some other influence than wind or sea; also the condition, as a list to starboard, meaning an angle of heel to the right. |
| rake - To tilt from vertical on a fore-and-aft line; also the condition, as the rake of her mast, meaning the angle of tilt forward or aft. |
| swamp - To sink by filling with water. |
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