Nautical Terminology Chapter 1

Question 1

Displacement hull

Answer 1

Pushes water equal to the weight of the boat and the load. Uses less horsepower can handle heavier loads.

Question 2

Planing hull

Answer 2

Lifts the hull out on top of the water, uses more horsepower and fuel but moves faster.

Question 3

Bulkhead

Answer 3

Vertical partitions, like walls in a house

Question 4

Galley

Answer 4

Kitchen on a boat

Question 5

Head

Answer 5

Bathroom on a boat

Question 6

Bilge

Answer 6

Lower interior areas of the hull of a vessel

Question 7

Lazarette

Answer 7

Compartments in the stern of a vessel for storage

Question 8

Porthole

Answer 8

An opening to allow light and air

Question 9

Wake

Answer 9

The disturbed water that leaves astern as a result of its motion

Question 10

Roll

Answer 10

The alternating motion of a boat, leaning alternatively from port to starboard

Question 11

Pitch

Answer 11

The alternative rise and fall of the bow of a vessel proceeding through waves

Question 12

Yaw

Answer 12

To swing or steer off course as running with a quartering sea

Question 13

Pound

Answer 13

To take on head seas fast and to come down hard on successive waves

Question 14

Pitchpole

Answer 14

A position where the vessel is inserted into the wave in front and the following sea lifts the stern and turns the vessel over the bow

Question 15

Capsize

Answer 15

To turn over, to turn bottom side up

Question 16

Founder

Answer 16

To sink or be in the process of sinking

Question 17

Swamp

Answer 17

To fill with water not from a leak, but from water coming over the deck and gunwales

Question 18

Keel

Answer 18

The major longitudinal member of a boats hull, running fore and aft at the hull bottom

Question 19

Transom

Answer 19

The traverse part of the stern

Question 20

Cleat

Answer 20

A deck fitting of metal or wood with outward angled arms on which mooring lines can be made fast

Question 21

Stuffing box

Answer 21

Keeps the hull water tight where the rudder post and propeller shaft enter the hull

Question 22

Amidships

Answer 22

Midway between the bow and stern

Question 23

Transom

Answer 23

Th flat member across the stern where a flat motor may be mounted

Question 24

Super structure

Answer 24

Th part of a boat above the main deck level

Question 25

Ground tackle

Answer 25

The anchor, anchor rode, and all shackles and other gear used to attach it.

Question 26

Hawsepipe

Answer 26

A pipe in a vessels hull through which the anchor rode runs

Question 27

Rode

Answer 27

Line or chain or the combination of both connecting an anchor to a vessel

Question 28

Scope

Answer 28

The ratio of the length of an anchor rode currently in use to the vertical distance from the bow chocks to the bottom of the water, depends on weather conditions and the bottom holding qualities of the sea floor below