Boating Terms Commonly Used

If you are a sailor, there is a vocabulary of boating terms you should learn. Boaters just starting out often find the task of learning these terms quite the chore.

Presenting to you now, is a basic comprehensive list of some of the top boating terms. Learn these and you are well on your way to becoming proficient in modern day sailer lingo.

Alot of these terms pertain to specific types of boats or ships. However,knowing their meaning is still a task you should not shirk. You can take an online boating course obout boating safety and find all of these terms.

1- Wake - When boats move accross the water, a wake is left trailing the boat that looks like a path of churning waves and disturbed water trailing behind the boat.

2- The Bow - The boats forward section.

3- Starboard - Facing forward to the bow, on your right side would be Starboard.

4- Flooding - An incoming overwhelming force and volume of water, that could possibly sink the boat, if not stopped.

5- Cast Off - To let go, as in the boat leaving the pier.

6- Cabin - These are what the crew or passengers use to get out of the elements. Another word for this purpose would be compartment.

7- Stern - At the rear of the boat is the stern.

8- Abeam - is not on the boat, but at right angles to the boats keel.

9- Aboard - If you are with in or somewhere on the boat, you are aboard the boat.

10- Port - The port side of the boat is on your left side if you are facing the bow (front) of the ship.

11- Abaft - To go abaft would be to go toward the boats stern- behind.

12- Aboard - If you are anywhere on the boat, you are onboard the boat.

13- Latitude - is from the Equator going North or South, for any distance, measured in degrees.

14- Navigate - When you plot, chart and execute your boat trip, from one destination to another, you have nagigated a course.

15- Aboard - If you are on the boat somewhere, you are aboard.

16- Ground Tackle - Seamans use this term for the Anchor and the equipment that goes with it.

17- Below - Beneath the upper deck is the below decks, the lower decks.

18- Overboard - If you fall off the boat, you are overboard.

19- Nautical Mile - 1 minute of latitude, around 6075 feet , or an eighth longer that a 5280 foot long statute mile.

20- Flooding - When incoming currents of water start to fill up the vessel, potentially causing the potential of the boat sinking.

21- The bow - The front of the boat.

22- The Stem - The forward most forward part of the bow.

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