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Swiftsure Marine
Surveyors
Box 11, Consecon ON K0K1T0
Canada
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SMS Nautical Notes - Definitions
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It's been awhile since our last addition... but we're back with
good intentions for 2006! Last entry walked you through some
construction terms. This time, we're going to cover off some
other words you might see in your survey: location words.
- Abeam
- Across the vessel in a port to starboard line
- Aft
- Rear or stern of the vessel
- Amidships
- Centre of the vessel
- Bilge
- Bottom of the vessel below the floorboards /
waterline
- Bowsprit
- Spar or integral section of the vessel that
extends beyond the bow of the deck
- Cabin
- Interior or living quarters of the vessel
- Cockpit
- Sunken steering / seating space on the
vessel, usually aft
- Flybridge
- A kind of second-story open-deck space,
usually equipped with duplicate steering / engine / navigation
facilities
- Forecastle
- aka "foksel" (sounds nothing like it's
phonetic pronunciation)
Forward section of the vessel below decks
- Galley
- Kitchen on the vessel
- Head
- Bathroom on the vessel
- Lazaret
- Locker space below decks in the cockpit or
stern of the vessel
- Port
- Left, also an opening (eg. window)
- Starboard
- Right
- Transom
- Flat stern of the vessel
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May 2005
This month were setting out to define boat construction terms -
some of which you might see used in your survey - as May is a good
month to check your vessel over from bow to stern, allowing enough
time to make repairs or upgrades without missing too much of the
boating season.
- Ballast
- Weight in the vessel to give it stability
- Beam
- Width of the boat at its widest point
- Bulkhead
- Any partition or wall on the boat
- Bulwark
- Extensions of the boat sides above deck level
- Camber
- Athwartships (port to starboard) curvature of
the decks
- Carvel
- A mode of construction in which the planks
are laid smoothly side-by-side
- Chine
- In flat- or V-bottomed boats, the line fore
and aft formed by the intersection of side and bottom
- Coaming
- Vertical trim around the cockpit or the
hatches
- Displacement
- Volume of water displaced by the hull
- Draft
- Depth from the waterline to the vessel's
lowest point
- Freeboard
- Distance from the waterline to the lowest
part of the deck
- Keel
- Principal fore and aft timber at the bottom
of the hull; backbone of the boat
- Lapstrake
- A mode of construction in which the strakes
or planks overlap; also referred to as "clinker built"
- Midships (also Amidships)
- Centre of the boat
- Sheer
- Fore and aft curvature of the decks, as seen
from the side
- Skeg
- Extension of the keel aft, supporting the
rudder and protecting the prop
- Stem
- Foremost frame of the vessel reaching from
keel to bow
- Sternpost
- Aftmost frame of the vessel reaching from
keel to stern
- Stringer
- Fore and aft strengthening member
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