deck 1 Flashcards
floor of boat?
sole
a cutter sailing vessel
is a small single-masted boat, fore-and-aft rigged, with two or more headsails and often a bowsprit.
reefing
is the means of reducing the area of a sail, usually by folding or rolling one edge of the canvas in on itself.
Reefing improves the performance ofsailing vessels in strong winds, and is the primary safety precaution in rough weather.
removing the reef, is called _____
“shaking it out.”
Reefing improves….
the performance of sailing vessels in strong winds, and is the primary safety precaution in rough weather.
toerail is also called…?
gunwale
rubrail
top rail
gunwale
is the top edge of the side of a boat.
Originally the gunwale was the “gun ridge” on a sailing warship.
This represented the strengthening wale or structural band added to the design of the ship, at and above the level of a gun deck.
forestay
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is a piece of standing rigging which keeps a mast from falling backwards. It is attached either at the very top of the mast, or in fractional rigs between about 1/8 and 1/4 from the top of the mast. The other end of the forestay is attached to the bow of the boat.
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1 -main sail
2- jib (genoa when lengthened)
3- spinnaker
4- hull
5- keel/centre board
spinnaker
is a sail designed specifically for sailing off the wind from a reaching course to a downwind, i.e. with the wind 90°–180° off bow. The spinnaker fills with wind and balloons out in front of the boat when it is deployed, called flying.
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6 rudder
7 skeg
8 mast
9 spreader
10 shroud
skeg rudder
is the most popular with the swiftness of a spade and the safety of a full.
spreader
is a spar on a sailboat used to deflect the shrouds to allow them to better support the mast. Often, there are multiples, called spreaders.
The spreader or spreaders serve much the same purpose as the crosstrees and tops in a traditional sailing vessel.
shrouds
are pieces of standing rigging which hold the mast up from side to side. There is frequently more than one shroud on each side of the boat. Usually a shroud will connect at the top of the mast, and additional shrouds might connect partway down the mast, depending on the design of the boat.
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11 main sheet
12 boom
13 mast
14 spinnaker pole
15 backstay
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vang
is a line or piston system on a sailboat used to exert downward force on the boom and thus control the shape of the sail. The Collins English Dictionary defines it as “A rope or tackle extended from the boom of a fore-and-aft mainsail to a deck fitting of a vessel when running, in order to keep the boom from riding up”.
Cap Shrouds
these are the parts of a sailboat’s rigging that hold the mast in place athwartship. They’re attached at the masthead and via chainplates to the hull.
lower shrouds
urther athwartship support is provided by forward and aft lower shrouds, which are connected to the mast just under the first spreader and at the other end to the hull.
stays
the mast is supported fore and aft by stays - the forestay and backstay to be precise.
chainplate
is a metal plate bolted to a strongpoint in the hull, often a reinforced section of a bulkhead.
It must be aligned with angle of the shroud attached to it through a toggle, to avoid all but direct tensile loads
athwartship
From athwart (“across”) + ship
Across a ship from side to side.
toggles
are stainless steel fittings whose sole purpose in life is absorb any non-linear loads between the shrouds and the chainplate.
Consequently they must be of a design that enables rotation in both the vertical and horizontal planes.
halyard
halliard is a line (rope) that is used to hoist a ladder, sail, flag or yard. The term halyard comes from the phrase, ‘to haul yards’
what point of sail?
close hauled
what point of sail?
close reach
what point of sail?
beam reach
what point of sail?
broad reach
what point of sail?
running
