Chapter 2 - Controls & Rigging - Glossary

Question 1

Dock

Answer 1

(1) A place where a vessel is berthed, but generally used to refer to the pier, quay, or pontoon to which it’s tied when in that berth.

(2) To bring a boat to its dock.

Question 2

Dock Line

Answer 2

A line used to tie a boat in its dock.

Question 3

Pier

Answer 3

A structure built over the water on pilings.

Question 4

Quay

Answer 4

A solid structure to which vessels tie up to load and unload.

Question 5

Pontoon

Answer 5

A moored floating structure to which a boat can be tied.

Question 6

Mooring

Answer 6

A permanently set anchor.

Question 7

Grommet

Answer 7

A metal ring set into a sail.

Question 8

Loose Footed

Answer 8

Of a mainsail, for example, that is attached to its boom at its tack and clew but not along its foot.

Question 9

Bolt Rope

Answer 9

A rope sewn into the edge of a sail, often used to attach it to the mast or boom.

Question 10

Outhaul

Answer 10

A line used to tension the foot of the mainsail.

Question 11

Aloft

Answer 11

Above the deck, usually in the rig.

Question 12

Make Fast

Answer 12

To secure, as when tying a line to a cleat.

Question 13

Cleat

Answer 13

A fitting used to secure a line under load.

Question 14

Secure

Answer 14

(1) To make fast (as a line).

(2) To make safe.

Question 15

Headboard

Answer 15

A reinforcement at the head of a sail.

Question 16

Sail Tie

Answer 16

Length of webbing used to secure sails.

Question 17

Flake

Answer 17

To lay in even loose folds, as a sail.

Question 18

Hank

Answer 18

A metal clip or fabric tab used to attach a sail’s luff to a stay.

Question 19

Luff Tape

Answer 19

Tape with an integral bolt rope that is sewn to the luff of a sail.

Question 20

Headfoil

Answer 20

A metal or plastic cover that fits over a forestay to accept the luff tape of a jib when it’s hoisted.

Question 21

Fair

Answer 21

Smooth, unobstructed.

Question 22

Fairlead

Answer 22

A fitting used to lead a line fair and at the correct angle to a winch, cleat, or other fitting.

Question 23

Fitting

Answer 23

A piece of hardware that is fixed to the boat or its spars.

Question 24

Winch

Answer 24

A device consisting of a gear-driven drum that is operated with a handle to provide mechanical advantage when hauling on a line; also used to snub a line.

Question 25

Snub

Answer 25

To hold a line under tension by wrapping it around a cleat or a winch.

Question 26

Tail

Answer 26

(1) The end of a working line (e.g. halyard, sheet) after the winch or snubber that is taking the load. (2) To pull on the tail of the line.

Question 27

Grinding

Answer 27

Turning the winch with the handle.

Question 28

Jammer

Answer 28

A device that holds a line by an internal mechanism. A rope clutch.

Question 29

Ease

Answer 29

To let out a line that has load on it.

Question 30

Override

Answer 30

When the line leading onto the winch gets on top of the wraps already on the winch. (The tail gets pinched under the wraps on the winch drum.

Question 31

Downhaul

Answer 31

A line used to tension the luff of a sail by pulling down the boom at the gooseneck.

Question 32

Cunningham

Answer 32

A line used to tension the luff of a sail without using the halyard.

Question 33

Jump

Answer 33

When hoisting a sail, to haul on the halyard at the mast.

Question 34

Cast Off

Answer 34

To undo completely a line that has been secured.

Question 35

Hiking Stick

Answer 35

An extension to the tiller that allows the helmsman more freedom of movement.

Question 36

Outboard

Answer 36

(1) Away from the centerline of a boat: outside the gunwale. (2) A portable motor that attaches (usually) to the stern of a boat.

Question 37

Gunwale

Answer 37

The top edge of the deck where it joins the hull.

Question 38

Mooring Buoy

Answer 38

A bouy attached to a mooring and to which a boat can be moored.

Question 39

Moor

Answer 39

To tie up (a boat).

Question 40

Sailcloth

Answer 40

Material from which sails are made.

Question 41

Bend On

Answer 41

To attach, as a sail to a spar.

Question 42

Cringle

Answer 42

An eye formed by sewing a rope or metal ring into, e.g., a sail.

Question 43

Fouled

Answer 43

Tangled, snagged.

Question 44

Self-Tailer

Answer 44

A device on a winch that enables it to grasp and gather the tail of a line as it is wound in on the winch.

Question 45

Stripping Arm

Answer 45

Part of a self-tailer.