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Sailing Terms by Name
Below you will find Sailing Terms by Name. For your convenience the list is provided in alphabetical order.
- Aft
- Aground
- Ahead
- Ahull, Lying Ahull
- Alee
- Aloft
- Amidships
- Anemometer
- Angle Of Heel
- Apparent Wind
- Astern
- Athwart
- Auxiliary
- Back
- Backstays
- Backwind
- Ballast
- Balloon Jib
- Bare Poles
- Batten
- Beacon
- Beam
- Beam Sea
- Beam Wind
- Bearing
- Beat
- Beaufort Scale
- Before The Wind
- Bell Bouy
- Below
- Bend
- Bight
- Bilge
- Binnacle
- Bitter End
- Bobstays
- Bolt Rope
- Boom
- Boot Top
- Bow
- Bow Line
- Bowline
- Bowspirit
- Bring About
- Bring To
- Broach
- Broad Reach
- Burdened Vessel
- Catamaran
- Centerboard
- Chain Plates
- Chart
- Cleat
- Clew
- Close
- Clove Hitch
- Come About
- Companionway
- Cutter
- Davits
- Day Sailer
- Deviation
- Dinghy
- Dismast
- Displacement
- Double
- Downwind
- Draft
- Ease
- Ensign
- Fall Off
- Fathom
- Fender
- Following Sea
- Foot
- Fore
- Foredeck
- Forestay
- Furl
- Galley
- Genoa
- Gimbal
- Guy
- Halyard
- Head
- Heading
- Headsail
- Heave To
- Heel
- Helm
- Hoist
- Hold
- Hull
- In Irons
- Jib
- Jib Halyard
- Jib Sheet
- Jibe
- Keel
- Ketch
- Knot
- Lanyard
- Latitude
- Lazarette
- League
- Leech
- Leeward
- Lie To
- Lifeline
- Line
- List
- LOA
- Log
- Logbook
- Longitude
- Loose
- Luff
- Luff Rope
- LWL
- Mainsail
- Mainsheet
- Marlinspike
- Mast
- Mayday
- Mean High Water
- Mean Low Water
- Midships
- Mile
- Mizzen
- Motor Sailer
- Navigation Lights
- Neap Tide
- Nun
- On The Beam
- Outhaul
- Painter
- Parachute
- Parallel Rules
- Parallels
- Passage
- Pelorus
- Pitch
- Port
- Port Tack
- Prevailing Winds
- Privileged Vessel
- Pulpit
- Quartering
- Reach
- Reef
- Reef Point
- Rigging
- Rode
- Rudder
- Rules Of The Road
- Running Lights
- Running Rigging
- Schooner
- Screw
- Scupper
- Seacock
- Sextant
- Sheet
- Shorten
- Shroud
- Single
- Slip
- Sloop
- Sound
- Soundings
- Spanker
- Spinnaker
- Spinnaker Pole
- Spitfire Jib
- Splice
- Spreader
- Spring Lines
- Stanchion
- Standing Rigging
- Starboard
- Starboard Tack
- Stay
- Staysail
- Steerageway
- Stern
- Storm Jib
- Storm Sails
- Stow
- Tack
- Telltale
- Tenon
- Tiller
- Topping Lift
- Transom
- Trim
- Turnbuckle
- Under Bare Poles
- Under Way
- Union Jack
- Vane
- Vang
- Veer
- Waterline
- Weather Helm
- Wheel
- Whisker Pole
- Winch
- Wing And Wing
- Working Sails
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