Hobie Cat 18 User Manual page 10

Overstand - To sail farther past a mark or layline than is necessary before tacking for it or rounding it.
Pinch - To sail too close to the wind. Boat's speed and power fall off greatly.
Pointing - A boat's level of efficiency in sailing to windward. (2) Sailing as close to the wind as the boat's design will allow. (3)
Sailing closer to the wind than another boat, is called pointing higher.
Port - The left side of a boat. Port and Starboard are important terms, as left and right can become confusing
Rake - The tilting of the mast forward or aft. Rake is used to move the sails center of effort, forward or aft.
Reach - All points of sailing between a beat (close-hauled) and a run (straight down wind)
Run - The point of sail with the wind directly behind the boat, a very slow way to sail downwind on a Cat.
Sheet - A line for controlling a sail or boom in relation to the wind
Sloop - A single-masted sailboat with a large mainsail and a single working jib
Snuffer-A spinnaker retrieval/launching system where a retrieval line is led through a long spinnaker bag and tied to the middle
of the spinnaker.
Spinnaker - a large triangular sail set on a long light pole and used when running before the wind
Stall - The slowing effect from sheeting the sails too tightly in relation to the wind direction or falling off (turning down wind)
without easing the sails. The leeward telltales will stop flowing to the rear.
Starboard - The right side of a boat
Starboard Tack - Sailing with the wind coming over the starboard side of the boat.
Stern - The rear end of a boat
Tack - To come about; to change the course of the boat by bringing the bows through the wind so that the wind is now on the
opposite side. (2) The relationship of a sailboat with respect to the wind. If the wind comes over the starboard side,
you're on starboard tack; if the wind comes over the port side, you're on port tack.
Telltale - A short piece of ribbon, plastic, yarn or feather attached to sails and/or shrouds for the purpose of reading wind
direction and for monitoring sail trim.
True Wind – The wind as provided by mother nature and felt when on stationary objects. See "Apparent Wind" in this book.
Traveler - A stern mounted, movable car, on a horizontal track, that is connected to the mainsheet for the purpose of controlling
the boom and sail trim; also used for fore-aft and inboard-out-board jib lead locations.
Unirig - A boat with only a mainsail, such as the Hobie 14 and 17.
Upwind - Sailing close-hauled toward the wind. (2) To windward
Weather - Indicating the side toward the wind, also known as windward; "to weather" is to windward
Weather Helm - The boat having a tendency to head into the wind if the tiller is released.
Windward - The side of the boat the wind hits first. (2) Sailing toward the wind. (3) A boat or object up wind.
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