The language of hits landlubbers in their ears with the same amount of sense as would be the case if Ubangi were being tossed into the air. Starboard tacks have points but only sails have heads. A sheet is a rope, not a sail- and a rope isn't a rope, but is a line. 'Tis a strange sort of lingo and you must know at least a bit of it before you take to the high seas.
Glossary Of Terms
ABACK: With the wind on the forward sides of the sails instead of the after sides.
BACKSTAY: A stay running from the masthead aft. A back runner is similar but is arranged to be slacked off upon occasion.
BOOM: The horizontal spar to which the bottom edge of a sail is laced.
CHINE: The corner where a flat or V-bot-tom boat's side and bottom meet.
CLEAT: A two-armed device to which a line can be made fast.
DAGGER: A type of centerboard shaped like, or suggesting, a dagger.
FAIRBODY: The line formed by the out-Side bottom edge of the planking as it touches the keel.
GROMMETS: The metal eyelets in the edge or along the reef points of a sail.
HEEL: To tilt under the impetus of sails.
HELM: The tiller or wheel by. which a rudder is moved.
INWALE: A strip of wood around the in-sides of frame heads at the sheer line. In large, decked boats, usually called a clamp.
IRONS: In luffing, a boat without enough momentum may refuse to come about on the opposite tack. The sails will remain flapping. A boat in this position is said to be in irons.
JIB: Triangular sail forward of the mainmast.
LEE: The side of a boat opposite to that from which the wind is blowing.
LEECH: The after edge of a sail.
LINES: Rope
Fish & Boat Commission, Coldwater Heritage Partnership Supporting Grassroots Work to Conserve PA?s Valuable Coldwater Streams, Trout Fisheries
A cooperative partnership that includes the Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) is helping local organizations protect and conserve Pennsylvania?s coldwater stream habitats ? waterways that are critical to the health of the state?s wild trout fisheries.
Public review of draft Susquehanna River Anadromous Fish Restoration Cooperative (SRAFRC) Migratory Fish Management and Restoration Plan for the Susquehanna River Basin
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) today announced that the Draft Migratory Fish Management and Restoration Plan for the Susquehanna River Basin is now available for public review and comment.
PA Fish & Boat Commission Plans Open House at Linesville State Fish Hatchery
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will hold their annual Open House at the Linesville State Fish Hatchery on Saturday, April 3, 2010 from 11am ? 3:30 p.m.
Fish & Boat Commission Names John Arway Executive Director
A 30-year veteran of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) has been chosen as the agency?s next executive director. During a special public meeting today, the Board of Commissioners selected John Arway to lead the Commission, one of the oldest and most effective conservation agencies in the nation.
Pennsylvania Announces Fisheries Position Regarding N.Y. City Reservoir Releases to Delaware River
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) today announced the release of a fisheries recommendation for management of water released to Delaware River tributaries from New York City water supply reservoirs.
Fish & Boat Urges Action on Susquehanna River Troubles
Calling the Susquehanna River ?increasingly impaired,? the board of
commissioners of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) today called on state and federal
environmental agencies to expand efforts to determine the sources of pollution which are contributing to
the demise of the river?s smallmouth bass fishery.
Fish & Boat Commission Names Acting Executive Director
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) today named Brian
Barner as the agency?s acting executive director, effective upon the retirement of Dr. Douglas Austen at
the close of business today.
National Saltwater Angler Registry (attention shad, striped bass, and river herring anglers)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission (PFBC) are reminding anglers that a new federal law requires anglers who target or catch shad, striped bass, and river herring from the Delaware River below Trenton Falls or in the Delaware Estuary to register with the National Saltwater Angler Registry.
Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission staff at Butler Fishing Show
Staff from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will attend the Butler Fishing Show on February 13th and 14th 2010 at the Butler Senior High School.
Fish & Boat Winter Meeting Scheduled for January 27-28 in Harrisburg
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) will hold its winter quarterly
meeting on Jan. 27-28 at its Harrisburg office.
Biologist Report - West Branch Susquehanna River and Susquehanna River Younf-of-Year Smallmouth Bass
Biologists conducted backpack electrofishing surveys July 13-17 and 23-24, 2009 targeting YOY smallmouth bass at ten historic sampling sites in the West Branch and twenty-six historic sampling sites in the Susquehanna River.
Biologist Report - Laurel Hill Creek & Big Sandy Creek Basins, Somerset and Fayette Counties, Search for Wild Trout
Fisheries Management personnel from the Area 8 office surveyed 15 unassessed waters in the Laurel Hill Creek and Big Sandy Creek basins in Somerset and Fayette Counties.
Commissioner Lenny Lichvar Sworn in as District 4 Representative
Lenny Lichvar of Boswell, Somerset County, has been sworn in as the District 4
commissioner for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, representing Bedford, Blair, Cambria,
Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin and Somerset counties.
Updated Fish Consumption Advisories Issued for 2010
State officials today released updated fish consumption advisories
that include two new fish species and a water body that had not previously been on
the list, but also eases or lifts advisories on fish from seven water bodies.
Eleven Complete Police Training Requirements at State Police Facility
Six waterways conservation officers from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat
Commission (PFBC) and five Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) rangers have
completed Municipal Police Officers Basic Training, Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank E.
Pawlowski announced today.
Biologist Report - Susquehanna River smallmouth bass
During September 21 ? 24, 2009, biologists conducted nighttime electrofishing surveys targeting adult smallmouth bass at four historic sampling sites located within the middle portion of the Susquehanna River from the Fabri Dam in Sunbury downstream to the York Haven Dam near Middletown to determine trends in abundance, size structure, age structure, and growth attributes, among other attributes.
Biologist Report - Wild Trout Streams, Cumberland and Perry Counties
A subset of unassessed streams were surveyed in the Sherman Creek and Yellow Breeches Creek basins in south central Pennsylvania to determine if wild trout were present.
Fish & Boat Commission to inspect Marcellus Shale drilling sites
Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation, a hydroelectric generating station on the lower Susquehanna River, announces plans to draw down the water level in Lake Clarke above the Safe Harbor Dam.
used in handling a boat.
MISS STAYS: To get a boat into IRONS.
PORT: The left side of a vessel as you face forward, opposite to STARBOARD.
POUNDING: The shock felt in rough water when a relatively flat portion of the boat lifts above water and then forcibly strikes the surface.
PURCHASE: Any rigging consisting of two or more blocks used to hoist a heavy weight.
QUARTER ROUND: A narrow, triangular piece of wood with one face rounded; used for trim along the edges of cabins.
REEF: To reduce the area of a sail by lowering it, making fast the reef points, and hoisting again.
ROPE: Often confused with LINE. When a length is cut from a coil of rope, that length immediately is known as a line.
SEAKINDLY: Comfortable and safe in rough weather.
SEAWORTHY: Able to stay at sea. Often used when SEAKINDLY would be a better word.
SHEET: Line used to control the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind. The sheet is not the sail itself.
STABILITY: The ability of a boat to return to an upright position when she has been heeled by some force such as the wind or a wave.
STARBOARD: Opposite to PORT. The right side of the boat as you face forward.
TACK: The lower forward corner of a sail. Also, that variety of sailing where you proceed to windward by sailing on alternate courses so the wind is first on one side of the boat and then on the other.
TRAVELER: A metal rod running athwartships to which the main-sheet block, or sometimes the jib-sheet block, is attached.
TRIM: The movement of a boat away from the upright in a fore-and-aft direction. As you walk forward, a boat will trim by the bow.
TURNBUCKLE: A pair of eyebolts threaded into a casting that can be turned to tighten wire standing rigging.
UNDERBODY: The entire hull below the water line.
WEATHER: Another word for WINDWARD.
WINCH: A mechanical device used for putting more power on the running rigging than can easily be applied by hand, Also used to hoist an anchor.
With these terms under your belt you are ready to go to sea!
