Blue WaterSea Terms
A term applied to the open sea.
Blue Water to Boatswain's Locker
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Bluff-bowedSea Terms
A vessel that has full bows, after the style of a canal boat's bows, is said to be bluff-bowed. Also known as apple-bowed.
Bluff-headedSea Terms
A vessel having a nearly perpendicular stem, or cut-water, is said to be bluff-headed.
BoardSea Terms
When a vessel is sailing close-hauled she is said to be making a board on the port or starboard tack as the case may be. (See Half-Board.) To board a vessel is to enter upon her deck. (See By the Board.)
Board of TradeSea Terms
The English Board of Trade is a public institution having jurisdiction over merchant shipping. One of its duties is to examine and pass upon all seamen applying for a certificate of competency as master or mate.
BoardersSea Terms
Men who enter upon a vessel other than their own, either in a hostile or friendly manner; in the latter case they may board a vessel to render assistance.
Boarding NettingsSea Terms
A net work of ropes extending from the bulwark-rail upwards, and completely or nearly encircling the vessel. A boarding netting is used for the purpose of frustrating an attack upon the vessel by a body of boarders.
Boarding PikeSea Terms
A lance or spear used in repelling boarders.
BoatSea Terms
A small vessel propelled by oars or sails and termed respectively, a row-boat or a sail-boat; a freight or passenger steam vessel built for the navigation of rivers and harbors is called a steam-boat, without reference to size; a vessel used on canals is called a canal-boat.
Boat Boom LaddersSea Terms
Short rope ladders hanging down from the boat-boom for affording access to the boats when the crews are called away, or when they are returning to the ship from the boats.
Boat Boom PendantsSea Terms
The single lengths of rope seized on to the boat-booms and allowed to hang down so that the boats of the vessel, when at anchor, may be secured to them by hitching the painter through the eye spliced in the lower end of the pendant.
Boat BoomsSea Terms
The booms that swing out from either side of the vessel and to which the boats ride by making fast their painters to the boom pendants when the vessel is at anchor.
Boat ChocksSea Terms
The shapes of wood in which a boat rests when it is stowed on deck.
Boat FallsSea Terms
Purchases made with two blocks and a length of rope used for hoisting a boat to the davits.
Boat-hookSea Terms
A wooden staff, with a hook-shape in one end, belonging to the furni ture of a boat. It is used for bearing a boat off from a vessel's side or wharf, or holding her in position alongside of some object.
Boat RecallSea Terms
An understood signal made from the ship summoning a boat to return.
Boat ServiceSea Terms
(See Shove Off; Up Oars; Let Fall; Give Way; Give-Way Together; Hold Water; Stern All; Oars; Trail; Way Enough; Toss; In Bows.)
BoatilaSea Terms
A boat of flat-bottom and pinched or narrow stern common to the Gulf of Manar.
BoatswainSea Terms
An officer under the mates whose duty it is to work the crew under the orders of the officer of the watch. The title is pronounced bo-s'n.
Boatswain's ChairSea Terms
A piece of board shaped and hung like a scup seat, and used to sit on while being swayed aloft to perform certain kinds of work.
Boatswain's LockerSea Terms
The chest, or other receptacle, in which the boatswain keeps marlinspikes, serving mallets, spun-yarn, etc. (See Locker.)