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If you are a sailor, there is a vocabulary of boating terms you should learn. Boaters just starting out often find the task of learning these terms quite the chore.
So prepared for you is a basic list, that if you are a boater, you should learn. This can help you tremendously in understanding the lingo used by seaman and boaters.
Alot of these terms pertain to specific types of boats or ships. However,knowing their meaning is still a task you should not shirk. You can take an online boating course obout boating safety and find all of these terms.
1- Overboard - When you are in a boat on any body of water, what is outside of the boat or off of the boat is called overboard. If you fall into the water you have fell overboard.
2- The Bow - The boats forward section.
3- Tide - The ocean levels rise and fall, from the moons gravitational pull. On earth, this causes ocean levels to rise, as when the tide comes in.. or when the water levels drop is referred to when the tide goes out.
4- Abaft - To go towards the stern, behind the boat, is abaft.
5- Cast Off - To let go, as in the boat leaving the pier.
6- Wake- When a ship or oat travels trhough the water it disturbes it, causing waves and a trail to form for a distance behind the boat.
7- Port - The left side of vessel when you are facing the bow.
8- Abeam - Not on the boat, but in relation to the keel, it would be at right angles.
9- Aboard - If you are with in or somewhere on the boat, you are aboard the boat.
10- Deck - The floor on which the crew and passengers walk on.
11- Tide - Due to the pull of the moons gravity, the water levels of the oceans rise at its strongest pull, and drops when it lessens. In port, the water will be deaper at high tide, and less deap at low tide.
12- Aboard - If you are anywhere on the boat, you are onboard the boat.
13- Latitude - is from the Equator going North or South, for any distance, measured in degrees.
14- Abeam - Not on the boat, but at right angles to the boats keel.
15- Longitude - At the Greenwich Meridian in England going East or West for any distance is Longitude. Longitude is measured in degrees.
16- Ground Tackle - Seamans use this term for the Anchor and the equipment that goes with it.
17- Flood - Incoming water currents,usually from an unwanted opening, on a boat usually unless corrected, is a precurser to the boat sinking.
18- Intracoastal Waterways - Inland waterways, rivers, canals, ajacent to the coasts that water vessels travel through with out going out to sea. Also called I.C.W.
19- Latitude - South or north distance from the Equator, measured by degrees.
20- Below - Often referred to the decks below the top deck or any lower deck of a ship or boat.
21- Chart - Sailers, boaters, often use charts to navigate their voyages. They give the direction and location of various locations, making it easier to navigate to these destinations.
22- Tide - The oceans water levels rise and fall from the moons gravitational influence. When the tide is in, the water level is deeper. Some ships can not enter port unless the tide is in, for the water level would not be deep enough to keep them from bottoming out.
K.Thomas
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So prepared for you is a basic list, that if you are a boater, you should learn. This can help you tremendously in understanding the lingo used by seaman and boaters.
Alot of these terms pertain to specific types of boats or ships. However,knowing their meaning is still a task you should not shirk. You can take an online boating course obout boating safety and find all of these terms.
1- Overboard - When you are in a boat on any body of water, what is outside of the boat or off of the boat is called overboard. If you fall into the water you have fell overboard.
2- The Bow - The boats forward section.
3- Tide - The ocean levels rise and fall, from the moons gravitational pull. On earth, this causes ocean levels to rise, as when the tide comes in.. or when the water levels drop is referred to when the tide goes out.
4- Abaft - To go towards the stern, behind the boat, is abaft.
5- Cast Off - To let go, as in the boat leaving the pier.
6- Wake- When a ship or oat travels trhough the water it disturbes it, causing waves and a trail to form for a distance behind the boat.
7- Port - The left side of vessel when you are facing the bow.
8- Abeam - Not on the boat, but in relation to the keel, it would be at right angles.
9- Aboard - If you are with in or somewhere on the boat, you are aboard the boat.
10- Deck - The floor on which the crew and passengers walk on.
11- Tide - Due to the pull of the moons gravity, the water levels of the oceans rise at its strongest pull, and drops when it lessens. In port, the water will be deaper at high tide, and less deap at low tide.
12- Aboard - If you are anywhere on the boat, you are onboard the boat.
13- Latitude - is from the Equator going North or South, for any distance, measured in degrees.
14- Abeam - Not on the boat, but at right angles to the boats keel.
15- Longitude - At the Greenwich Meridian in England going East or West for any distance is Longitude. Longitude is measured in degrees.
16- Ground Tackle - Seamans use this term for the Anchor and the equipment that goes with it.
17- Flood - Incoming water currents,usually from an unwanted opening, on a boat usually unless corrected, is a precurser to the boat sinking.
18- Intracoastal Waterways - Inland waterways, rivers, canals, ajacent to the coasts that water vessels travel through with out going out to sea. Also called I.C.W.
19- Latitude - South or north distance from the Equator, measured by degrees.
20- Below - Often referred to the decks below the top deck or any lower deck of a ship or boat.
21- Chart - Sailers, boaters, often use charts to navigate their voyages. They give the direction and location of various locations, making it easier to navigate to these destinations.
22- Tide - The oceans water levels rise and fall from the moons gravitational influence. When the tide is in, the water level is deeper. Some ships can not enter port unless the tide is in, for the water level would not be deep enough to keep them from bottoming out.
K.Thomas
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