sailing jargon

Language: jargon: sailing

How to confuse, befuddle, or generally ensure misunderstanding so no one can blame you when something goes wrong on board!

This is merely a repository of node links to wu's related to sailing terminology. Always under construction. /msg me if you know of something which should be here.

Topics:

• Hardware:
  • Deck Gear:
    Miscellaneous items which haven't found a better home in this list.
    • boathook
    • fenders (Oolong)
    
    
  • Fittings:
    • block
    • cranse iron
    • fairlead
    • gammon
    • gooseneck
    • mastband
    • shackle
    • track
    
    
  • Hull:
    • bilge
    • bitts
    • binnacle
    • bow
    • coach
    • companionway
    • Construction Materials:
      • FRP (fiber reinforced plastic aka fiberglass)
      • steel
      • wood
      • wood composite:
        • traditional
        
        
      
      
    • deadlight
    • deck
    • doghouse
    • gunwale
    • hatch
    • keel
    • porthole
    • sampson post
    • scupper
    • scuttle
    • sheer
    • sheer strake
    • tiller
    • Types:
      • Multihull:
        • catamaran
        • trimaran
        
        
      • monohull:
        • barge
        • boier
        • botter
        • Dinghies
        • dhow
        • felucca
        • lighter
        • punt
        
        
      
      
    • wheel
    
    
  • Rigging:
    • clevis pin
    • Spars:
      • boom
      • bowsprit
      • gaff
      • jib boom
      • mast
      • sprit
      • yard
        • square
        
        
      
      
    • Standing Rigging:
      • chainplate
      • clevis pin
      • deadeyes
      • lanyard
      • shrouds
      • Stays:
        • backstay
        • bobstay
        • forestay
        • running backstay
        • tang
        • triatic stay
        • whisker stay
        
        
      • turnbuckle
      
      
    • tabernacle(Oolong)
    
    
  • Sails:
    • mainsail
    • Parts of:
      • batten
      • camber
      • chord
      • Cunningham
      • grommet (Oolong)
      • luff
      • tack
      • tether
      
      
    • staysail
      • Fisherman
      • Gollywobbler
      • jib
      • Kite
      • triatic
      
      
    • watersail
    
    
  
  
• Sailing Rigs
  • By Sail Type
    • Bermudan/Marconi
    • Gaff
    • Lateen
    • Lug
    • Staysail
    • Windsurfer
    
    
  • Square Rigs
    • Topsail Schooner
    
    
  • Fore-and-aft Rigs
    • Catboat/Una
    • Cutter
    • Ketch
    • Schooner
    • Sloop
    
    
  
  
• Sailors:
  • Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort
  • Christopher Columbus
  • Capt. James Cook
  • Pirates:
    • Anne Bonny
    • Sir Francis Drake
    • Israel Hands
    • Mary Read
    • Edward Teach aka Blackbeard
    
    
  • Joshua Slocum
  
  
• Tools:
  • Navigation:
    • binoculars
    • chart
    • compass
    • octant
    • quadrant
    • sextant
    
    
  • Sailmaker's:
    • fids
    • needles
    • sailhook
    • sailmaker's palm
    
    
  
  
• Software
  • Maritime Literature:
    • Canoeing from Hope to Patience by Seymour Phillips
    • Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest wu by Lometa
    • Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
    • Sloop John B traditional
    
    
  • Nautical directions:
    • abaft
    • abeam
    • aft
    • astern
    • backing
    • fore
    • forward
    • inboard
    • larboard
    • leeward
    • outboard
    • port
    • starboard
    • veering
    • windward
    
    
  • Navigation:
    • buoy
    • Charts
    • latitude
    • lighthouse
    • longitude
    
    
  • Techniques:
    • coming about
    • jibe/gybe (Oolong)
    • Heavy Weather Sailing:
      • Heaving-to
      
      
    • tacking or tacking