PAINTER - A line to the bow of a small boat used for REEF -Ashallow underwater barrier.
making fast.
REEVE -To pass a line through a block or other opening.
PASSAGEWAY -Acorridor or hallway aboard ship.
RIDGES-Highpressurefingersextendingoutfromahigh.
RODE - The anchor line or chain.
PENNANT - The line by which a boat is made fast to a
mooring buoy; also pendant.
PERSONAL FLOATATION DEVICE (PFD) - A life pre- RUNNINGLIGHTS-Lightsrequiredtobeshownonboats
server. underway between sundown and sunup.
PIER - A loading platform that extends at an angle from RUDDER -Avertical plate for steering a boat.
the shore.
SALON - The main social cabin on a vessel, usually the
PILASTER -Arectangular structural support column that largest area, occasionally referred to as the deckhouse.
is an extension of the port and starboard aft cabin sides
and which supports the hardtop and flybridge.
SCREW -Apropeller.
PILING - Support, or protection for wharves, piers, etc.
PITCH - 1. The vertical (up and down) motion of a bow in
SCUPPER - A drain from the edge of a deck that dis-
chargesoverboard.
a seaway, about the athwartships axis. 2. The axial ad- SEACOCK - A positive action shut-off valve connected
vance of a propeller during one complete revolution.
PITCHPOLING-Aboatbeingthrownend-over-end.
PLANING HULL-At slow speeds, a planing hull will dis-
directly to the hull seawater intake and discharge piping.
SERIES-Agroupofwaveswhichseemtotraveltogether
and at about the same speed.
place water in the same manner as a displacement hull. SHACKLE - A “U” shaped connector with a pin or bolt
As speed is increased, the hull provides a lifting effect up across the open end.
onto the surface of the water.
SHAFT - The long, round member that connects the en-
POINT - One of 32 points of the compass that is equal to gine or transmission to the propeller.
11-1/4
degrees.
SHAFT LOG -Afitting at the hull bottom where the shaft
PORT - 1. Looking forward, the left side of a boat, 2. A connecting an engine to its propeller penetrates the hull.
harbor, 3.Anopeningforlightorventilationorpassageof Ashaftlogpermitstheshafttorotatewhilesimultaneously
material in the side of a boat.
preventing water from entering the hull.
PORT BEAM - The left-center of a boat.
PORT BOW - Facing the bow, the front left side.
SHEER - The top of the hull’s curvature at the deck line
from the bow to the stern.
SHEER STRAKE - The upper edge of the hull, immedi-
PORT QUARTER - Looking forward, a vessel’s left rear ately below the deck.
section.
SHEET BEND - A knot used to join tow ropes.
QUARTER - The sides of a boat aft of amidships.
QUARTERING SEA- Sea coming on a boat’s quarter.
SHOAL-An area of shallow water.
SILENCER - A baffled chamber installed in an exhaust
RED-RIGHT-RETURNING - A term for helmsmen that system to reduce the noise.
buoys and day markers are on the right when returning
fromseaward.
SOLE - Term for deck, cabin or cockpit floor.
SPAR - A general term for booms, masts, yards etc.
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