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PAINTER - A line to the bow of a small boat used for
making fast.
PASSAGEWAY - A corridor or hallway aboard ship.
PENNANT - The line by which a boat is made fast to a
mooring buoy; also pendant.
PERSONAL FLOATATION DEVICE (PFD) - A life pre-
server.
PIER - A loading platform that extends at an angle from
the shore.
PILASTER - A rectangular structural support column that
is an extension of the port and starboard aft cabin sides
and which supports the hardtop and flybridge.
PILING - Support, or protection for wharves, piers, etc.
PITCH - 1. The vertical (up and down) motion of a bow in
a seaway, about the athwartships axis. 2. The axial ad-
vance of a propeller during one complete revolution.
PITCHPOLING - A boat being thrown end-over-end.
PLANING HULL - At slow speeds, a planing hull will dis-
place water in the same manner as a displacement hull.
As speed is increased, the hull provides a lifting effect up
onto the surface of the water.
POINT - One of 32 points of the compass that is equal to
11-1/4 degrees.
PORT - 1. Looking forward, the left side of a boat, 2. A
harbor, 3. An opening for light or ventilation or passage of
material in the side of a boat.
PORT BEAM - The left-center of a boat.
PORT BOW - Facing the bow, the front left side.
PORT QUARTER - Looking forward, a vessel's left rear
section.
QUARTER - The sides of a boat aft of amidships.
QUARTERING SEA - Sea coming on a boat's quarter.
RED-RIGHT-RETURNING - A term for helmsmen that
buoys and day markers are on the right when returning
from seaward.
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REEF - A shallow underwater barrier.
REEVE - To pass a line through a block or other opening.
RIDGES - High pressure fingers extending out from a high.
RODE - The anchor line or chain.
RUNNING LIGHTS - Lights required to be shown on boats
underway between sundown and sunup.
RUDDER - A vertical plate for steering a boat.
SALON - The main social cabin on a vessel, usually the
largest area, occasionally referred to as the deckhouse.
SCREW - A propeller.
SCUPPER - A drain from the edge of a deck that dis-
charges overboard.
SEACOCK - A positive action shut-off valve connected
directly to the hull seawater intake and discharge piping.
SERIES - A group of waves which seem to travel together
and at about the same speed.
SHACKLE - A "U" shaped connector with a pin or bolt
across the open end.
SHAFT - The long, round member that connects the en-
gine or transmission to the propeller.
SHAFT LOG - A fitting at the hull bottom where the shaft
connecting an engine to its propeller penetrates the hull.
A shaft log permits the shaft to rotate while simultaneously
preventing water from entering the hull.
SHEER - The top of the hull's curvature at the deck line
from the bow to the stern.
SHEER STRAKE - The upper edge of the hull, immedi-
ately below the deck.
SHEET BEND - A knot used to join tow ropes.
SHOAL - An area of shallow water.
SILENCER - A baffled chamber installed in an exhaust
system to reduce the noise.
SOLE - Term for deck, cabin or cockpit floor.
SPAR - A general term for booms, masts, yards etc.
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