Sailing

This is a yacht that has capabilities of going fast enough to plane, but can also be run at low RPM's to travel long distances. In between a trawler and a speedboat.

always approach a mooring buoy bow first slowly from the downwind side so when you tie off the boat can drift back with out fouling the mooring chain or line

The jib's sheet controls the angle of the jib (sail) to the wind. It is attached to the lower end of the jib that is farthest aft.

I'm not sure about specific charms, but there are lots of things that are considered good luck. A nautical star brings a sailor good luck (I'm not suggesting you go out and get a tattoo!). A black cat aboard a boat is supposed to bring good luck. A naked lady is supposed to calm the seas (which is why there are naked ladies on the bows of old sailing ships). There are lots of old sailing superstitions...but one almost universal bad luck one is having a banana aboard...a real no-no among fishermen.

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A no discharge zone is one where no vessel may discharge anything into the water. This includes sewage, grey water (water from sinks) and bilge water. In these areas the bilge pumps should be taken out of the automatic mode so that there is no oily bilge water discharges.

Bilge pumps are for the safety of a vessel you should not turn them off. as regards to oil in the bilge water this is down to the lack of another safety feature i.e a drip tray under the engines the purpose of which is to capture any oil and stop it from entering the bilges and spreading throughout the vessel. If you were to have a fire on board you should contain it to the smallest possible area for it to be extinguished , if you have oil spread throughout the bilges a fire will spread throughout the boat. If this is the case and you have oil in the bilges a thorough cleaning of the bilges and containment of any oil leaks is dangerously over due.

I remember a couple who motor sailed to Norway tied the boat up and went ashore for about 30 minutes when they got back to the boat it was slowly sinking. This was caused by the sterngland leaking slightly after the engine was switched off. Had the bilge pumps been switched off at the time the boat would have sunk to near deck level.

You are describing the mast.

In the maritime environment, it mean several things:

1. In restricted visibility it means the vessel is making way through the water.

2. A vessel approaching a blind bend in a river can sound one prolonged blast on the ships' whistle to alert any other vessels to its presence, if another vessel is nearby then they will respond with one prolonged blast on the ships' whistle.

There have been seven ships of the Royal Navy by that name. Please pick one out by years in service for identification.

Blue dungarees, white t-shirts, and blue and/or white sailor's hats are the classic look throughout history. Shoes optional.

That's called a tiller.

Sailors feared Poseidon, because they believed him to be the cause of earthquakes.

Lack of training almost always ends with poor results.

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Call the US Embassy and declare my emergency.

By the ships disappearing below the horizon

It can be challenging, but it is very rewarding.

Power should give way to sail, if a collision is imminent or you are ever unsure on what to do always turn to starboard (right).

Lateen sails work in much the same way that most other triangular sails work.

If the wind is behind the sail it will push the boat/ship/craft/vessel forward.

But suppose that the boat is at right angles to the wind. What happens then?

The sail is let out on the side of the boat that away from the wind. The wind blows against the surface of the sail. It might strike the surface at an angle of, say 140o. The wind escapes from the side of the sail at its widest point, and the boat slides towards the opposite direction i.e. the direction the boat is facing, its keel preventing it from simply moving/sliding in the water in a path directly away from the wind

This is a basic explanation of how a Lateen sail works.

Of course, it doesn't fully explain how a boat with Lateen sails can sail almost directly into the wind!

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Hi It just depends on the size and how fast she can sail, we have a 44 foot sail boat and average 4 to 5 knots, mostly, sometimes 5 or 6. So just do the division. jj.boat

The halyard holds the sail up. When a rope has an assigned job on a boat (or a ship) it is referred to as a line.

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The Fastest, Lightest, Most Maneuverable ships are : xebec/chebec, sloop and a schooner