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Boating Terms

Boating Terms. Terms you need to know on the water!. aft. Describing things in the rear of the vessel. aground. Touching bottom. anchor. A forging or casting shaped to grip the bottom by means of a rope or chain. Beam. A vessel’s width at the midsection. bilge.

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Boating Terms

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  1. Boating Terms Terms you need to know on the water!

  2. aft • Describing things in the rear of the vessel.

  3. aground • Touching bottom.

  4. anchor • A forging or casting shaped to grip the bottom by means of a rope or chain.

  5. Beam • A vessel’s width at the midsection.

  6. bilge • The lower internal part of the boats hull.

  7. Bow • The front part of the boat.

  8. Capacity Plate • Description giving maximum weight capacity and horsepower rating.

  9. Capsize • To turn over.

  10. Cardinal Points • The four main points of a compass; north, south, east and west.

  11. Catamaran • Boat with two hulls connected by a deck.

  12. Cleat • A piece of wood or metal with projecting ends to which lines are made fast.

  13. Come About • To change course, or tack, in a sailboat.

  14. Current • The movement of water in a horizontal direction.

  15. Deck • Any permanent covering over a compartment.

  16. Displacement Hull • The type of hull that plows through the water.

  17. Draft • The depth of the vessel below the water line, measured vertically to the lowest part of the hull.

  18. Ebb • An outgoing tide.

  19. Fathom • Six feet.

  20. Freeboard • The vertical distance measured on a boat’s side from the waterline to the gunwale.

  21. Give-Way Vessel • Required to take early and obvious action to avoid a collision when nearing another vessel.

  22. Gunwale • The upper edge of a boat’s side.

  23. Hatch • An opening in a boat’s deck for person’s cargo to go below.

  24. Helm • The wheel or tiller by which a boat is steered.

  25. Hull • The body of a boat.

  26. Hypothermia • A physical condition where the body loses heat faster than it can produce it.

  27. Keel • The permanently positioned, fore-and-aft backbone member of a boat’s hull.

  28. Mast • A spar set upright to support riggings or sail.

  29. Mooring • When a boat is permanently anchored, chained or moored.

  30. Nun Buoy • A Conical, red buoy bearing an even number and marking the starboard side of a channel from seaward. • Remember – “red, right, returning”

  31. PFD • Personal flotation device (life-jacket).

  32. Planing Hull • Type of hull that is shaped to lift out of the water at high speeds and ride on the surface.

  33. Port • The left side of the boat when facing the bow.

  34. Starboard • The right side of the boat when facing the bow.

  35. Stern • The aft or back of the boat.

  36. Tide • The alternate rise and fall of waters caused by the gravitational attraction of the sun and moon.

  37. Transom • The transverse planking which forms the back of small, square-ended boats.

  38. Underway • A vessel in motion.

  39. Vessel • Every kind of watercraft.

  40. Wake • Moving waves created by a vessel’s motion.

  41. Well • Area at the rear of the boat where the motor may be located.

  42. BOATING TERMS FOR TEST!! THE END

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