2004-2008 Four Winns Vista 248 268 288 288 298 328 348 Boat Owners Manual

OUTBOARD - 1. From the fore-and-aft  centerline of a     RED-RIGHT-RETURNING - A term for helmsmen that
boat toward both the port and starboard sides.  2. The     buoys and day markers are on the right when returning
seaward side of a  moored boat.  3.  An engine that  is     from seaward.
mounted externally onto the transom of a boat.
REEF - A shallow underwater barrier.
PAINTER - A line to  the bow of a  small boat used for
making fast.
REEVE - To pass a line through a block or other open-
ing.
PASSAGEWAY - A corridor or hallway aboard ship.
RIDGES - High pressure fingers  extending out from a
high.
PENNANT - The line by which a boat is made fast to a
mooring buoy; also pendant.
RODE - The anchor line or chain.
PERSONAL FLOATATION DEVICE (PFD) - A life pre-
server.
RUNNING LIGHTS  - Lights required  to be shown  on
boats underway between sundown and sunup.
PIER - A loading platform that extends at an angle from
the shore.
RUDDER - A vertical plate for steering a boat.
PILASTER -Arectangular structural support column that    SALON - The main social cabin on a vessel, usually the
is an extension of the port and starboard aft cabin sides   largest area, occasionally referred to as the deckhouse.
and which supports the hardtop and flybridge.
SCREW - A propeller.
PILING - Support, or protection for wharves, piers, etc.
SCUPPER - A drain from the edge  of a deck that dis-
PITCH - 1. The vertical (up and down) motion of a bow    charges overboard.
in a seaway, about the athwartships axis.  2. The axial
advance of a propeller during one complete revolution.
SEACOCK - A positive action shut-off valve connected
directly to the hull seawater intake and discharge piping.
PITCHPOLING - A boat being thrown end-over-end.
SERIES - A group  of waves which  seem to travel  to-
PLANING HULL-At slow speeds, a planing hull will dis-    gether and at about the same speed.
place water in the same manner as a displacement hull.
As speed is increased, the hull provides a  lifting effect     SHACKLE - A “U” shaped connector with a pin or  bolt
up onto the surface of the water.
across the open end.
POINT - One of 32 points of the compass that is equal to SHAFT -The long, round member that connects the en-
gine or transmission to the propeller.
11-1/4
degrees.
PORT - 1. Looking forward, the left side of a boat, 2. A     SHAFT LOG -Afitting at the hull bottom where the shaft
harbor,  3. An opening for light or ventilation or passage   connecting an engine to its propeller penetrates the hull.
of material in the side of a boat.
Ashaftlogpermitstheshafttorotatewhilesimultaneously
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.
PORT QUARTER - Looking forward, a vessel’s left rear   SHEER STRAKE - The upper edge of the hull, immedi-
section.
ately below the deck.
QUARTER - The sides of a boat aft of amidships.
QUARTERING SEA - Sea coming on a boat’s quarter.
SHEET BEND - A knot used to join tow ropes.
SHOAL - An area of shallow water.
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