Definitions Flashcards
(23 cards)
Avast
The order to stop
Bend
Temporary join between two ropes
Belay
To secure a line to a fitting e.g. cleat
Check away
To ease out a rope or wire under control
Down slack
To take the slack from a line
Handsomely
Slowly with care
Haul taut
The order to pull tight by hand
Heave in
The order to pull on a rope or cable by either hand or power
Light to
Place a line back along the deck on completion of an evolution in preparation for stowing away
Off turns
The order to remove a line with care from bollard or cleat
Roundly
Rapidly or fast with care
Surge
To keep turns on bollard or cleat, but ease a line out under its own weight or tension
Stop
Order to counter a safety issue
Walk away
To walk away from the point of strain whilst keeping it in hand
Walk back
To walk back towards the working end whilst keeping it in hand
Bring to
To pass a rope around capstan for heaving or veering
Veer
To pay out a line, wire or cable under power
Pay out
To pay out a line by hand
Dip the eye
When two or more berthing hawsers have been secured to a single bollard, the eye of the second hawser must be passed through the eye of the first before it is placed over a bollard
Marry
The order to bring two ropes together side by side and handle them as one
Double Up
To bring the other end of a berthing line to a wharf and secure at the same tension
Where do you begin coiling
Close to where the standing part is made fast
How do you belay a rope to a cleat
Minimum of 3 figure of eights
