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New Word:
Coaming - A raised rim or border around an opening, as in a ship's deck, designed to keep out water.

Parts missing:
Fairlead - A device such as a ring or block of wood with a hole in it through which rigging is passed to hold it in place or prevent it from snagging or chafing.

Chine - The line of intersection between the side and bottom of a flatbottom or V-bottom boat. (picked that one up from Moe).

Boom Vang

Down Haul

Traveller

Spinaker

Any other relevant parts missing like a cleat or something?

Oh yea,

Comming back from the M20 days.

Cunningham
Line passed through a grommet in the luff of the sail used to flatten the sail by tightening the luff.

. . . and "headstay or forestay" is a slightly misleading illustration & description.

A headstay is found on a masthead rig. It goes fully to the top of the mast, as depicted.

The term forestay applys to a fractional rig, where the stay does not extend all the way to the mast-top. Most fractional rigs have a forestay that extends 5/6ths, or sometimes 7/8ths, of the mast height. (And, I think this term also applies to the inner stay on boats with two headsails).

The illustration shows a fractional sized jib hanked onto a masthead rig. Not even our Macs are that strange looking!

Great Posts and Topic...

How about the foot of the sail?


I would be great to get this diagrahm updated and then I can print it out and have it as a study guide for the kids (and me)

Rich

Beer cooler; A place or device to keep your beer cooler than the ambient.

I think one of these would fit well in the Head of my X'...
Dik...

ESPERANZA wrote:I think one of these would fit well in the Head of my X'...
Dik...

Post the mod.

Wait a minute, if I put one of these in the Head, I'm gonna need the Head...

I'll get back to you...

"Do you reef in your gaff-topsails when you are close-hauled or do you let go the mizzen-top bowlines and cross-jack braces?"

.. from James Thurber, The Story of Sailing

oh yeah.. where's the outboard

When I use the beer cooler I swear I hear the power band rubbing the torque curve. But I think thats because I still have summer air in my tires on the trailer and its almost spring.

Maybe If I lube the muffler bearings or buy a boat with one of them double clutches, (I can only drive boats with the double clutches) my problems will subside.

Yar, Ye be needin some more.

Vang, main and jib Halyard, Cunningham, downhaul, buntlines, reefpoints, telltales, steerin wheel, centerboard, fiddle blocks, preventer, Harpoon launcher, spinnaker, whisker pole, masthead fly, Harness cask, grog barrel,
Upper and lower shrouds, toppinglift, Compass, anchor and rode, GPS, radar dome, ballast valve, towed sonar array, chaff rockets, roller furler (drum and luff extrusion), furler line, Fishin pole, diving planes, trapeze, hammock, propane grill, beer cooler, TV. I forget... what are we doing?

The Gudgeon (Gobio gobio)

Gudgeon- A fitting attached to the stern into which the pintles of a rudder are inserted.



I hope spring comes soon!

Where's the wench?

GOOD GUDGEON (Pistonus Pinicus)

*BAD* GUDGEON (Fracturus Pinicus)

"In engineering and with all things in life, son, never forget the most important thing... proper lubrication."
..............................................-- Robert B. McLemore, inventor & engineer, 1971