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- YachtSea Termsp.265A vessel used for pleasure, or a vessel of state.
- Yacht PlumbingSea Termsp.265(See Ship Plumbing.)
- YardSea Termsp.265A spar suspended horizontally to the forward side of a mast, and to which the head of a…
- Yard A-boxSea Termsp.265A yard is a-box when its sail is aback.
- Yard ArmSea Termsp.265(See Arm.)
- Yard RopeSea Termsp.265The rope used in sending up and down yards.
- Yard TackleSea Termsp.265A heavy tackle hooked into a strop on lower yards, and used for hoisting great weights.
- Yard-arm and Yard-armSea Termsp.265Said of vessels when they are lying alongside of one another so that their yard arms touch.
- Yarmouth BoatSea Termsp.265A boat fitted with lug sails and used in the herring fishery.
- YarnSea Termsp.265A tale. To spin a yarn is to relate a story. (See Rope Yarn, Twister.)
- YawSea Termsp.265A vessel yaws when, from indifferent steering, or a heavy sea running under the quarter, she…
- YawlSea Termsp.265A small fishing vessel. A cutter with an additional fore-and-aft sail set on a mizzen or…
- YearNavigationp.414(See Common, Solar, Sidereal, Anomolistic, Tropical, Calendar and Bissextile Year.)
- Yellow JackSea Termsp.265The yellow quarantine flag flown by a vessel having contagious disease on board.
- Yellow MetalSea Termsp.265A cheap composition used for sheathing a vessel in place of copper.
- Yellow-bellySea Termsp.265A term applied by seamen to a Portuguese or a mulatto.
- YeomanSea Termsp.265A ship's storekeeper. (See Storekeeper.)
- YeomanNavalp.514(See Engineers, Equipment, Paymasters and Ship's Yeoman.)
- YokeSea Termsp.265A horizontal piece of wood or metal placed across the head of a boat's rudder, to each end of…
- Yoke LinesSea Termsp.265Short lengths of rope fastened to the yoke, and by pulling which the rudder is turned.
- Young GentlemenSea Termsp.265A general term for midshipmen, both in the navy and merchant service.
- You-youSea Termsp.265A small sampan of China.