Entrance to Falling Off · Page 106 · The Nautical Encyclopedia

EntranceSea Terms

The lower part of the vessel's bow above the water line.

EscutcheonSea Terms

The place on the stern of a vessel where the name is either painted or raised.

Establishment of the PortSea Terms

(See Tide Establishment of the Port.)

EuphroeSea Terms

A length of wood having a number of parallel holes bored in it, and used to spread the legs of the awning crow-foot.

Even KeelSea Terms

When a vessel has no list, and is resting on the water so that the same proportion of the water line forward and aft is either submerged or elevated, she is said to float on an even keel.

EvurolSea Terms

(See Euphroe.)

Extension of ProtestSea Terms

(See Protest.)

Eye-boltSea Terms

A bolt having an eye in one end driven through a vessel's side or deck until the shoulder around the eye is flush with the wood: it is used for hooking anything to, such, for instance, as a preventer stay, the standing part of a head sheet, etc. When there is a ring through the eye it becomes a ring-bolt.

Sundries — fender, belaying-pin, bolts, serving-mallet, scraper, chain-hook, marling-spike, hand-spike, ballast-shovel, bucket, boatswain's chair, can-hooks, caulking-iron, ladders, thimble, hank, truck and caulking-mallet

Eye-seizingSea Terms

A seizing which is put on the strop of a block to form the eye and to jam the strop in the score of the block.

Eye-spliceSea Terms

A loop formed in the end of a rope by short-splicing its own end. (See engraving.)

Splices and bends — long splice, eye splice, short splice, common bend, fisherman's bend, double wall knot, serving and parcelling

Eyelet-holesSea Terms

Small holes worked in a sail, and through which the reef points are thrust for half their length, then sewed to the eyelet-hole: also the holes for the robands to go through in bending the sail.

EyesSea Terms

The loop in a shroud or stay that goes over the mast-head: the hole in the top part of the anchor shank that the ring goes through: the eyes of a ship are the hawse-holes: up in the eyes refers to the extreme forward part of the vessel either above or below decks.

FagSea Terms

To become untwisted; bunting is fagged when it becomes ragged.

Fair LeaderSea Terms

A short length of wood with holes bored in it, or a block or thimble so placed as to give running rigging a fair lead, or to change its direction a little, such, for instance, as to make it parallel to the shrouds by gathering it into them through the fair leader.

Carvel-work and clinched-work, rudder-brace and rudder-pintle, and the fair-leader

FairwaySea Terms

The middle of a channel in a harbor or river.

Fair WindSea Terms

A wind which enables a vessel to lay her course.

FaKeSea Terms

A circle of rope in a coil; one of the circles of the lead-line held in the hand in sounding.

FallSea Terms

The rope of a tackle.

Fall AboardSea Terms

To strike or encounter another ship or object.

Fall AsternSea Terms

The situation of a vessel when she is out-distanced by another. (See Drop Astern.)

Fall DownSea Terms

To sail or to be towed down a river nearer to its mouth.

Falling GlassSea Terms

Said of a barometer when the mercury descends in the tube.

Falling HomeSea Terms

A vessel's topsides are said to be falling home when they incline inboards from the perpendicular. Also said to be tumbling home or tumbling in. (See Flaring.)

Falling OffSea Terms

Said of a vessel when her head goes off from the wind.