Garnet to Glory Hole

A purchase rigged on the mainstay and used in getting in and hoisting out cargo. (See Clew Garnet.)

A fishing boat of the Gulf of Persia.

(See Bracelets.)

Ropes employed to secure the square-sails to a yard, or the head-sails to the bowsprit and jib-booms, after the sails are furled. On some vessels the bowsprit is provided with stops made fast to small iron screw-eyes on the sides of the spar, and these take the place of a gasket, but gaskets are always used on jib-booms and on yards. On the latter they are named according to their location, as: bunt, quarter, and yardarm gaskets. Harbor gaskets are neatly made of platted stuff or of bands of canvas for use when the vessel is in port. Sea gaskets are the ordinary lengths of rope.

A vessel is said to gather on another when she is overtaking her.

Said of a vessel when she commences to move through the water after leaving her anchorage, or after she has been lying-to.

(See Gob Line.)

(See Gage.)

A vessel resembling a Chinese Junk, belonging to Anam.

The name applied collectively to the ropes, blocks, tackles, etc., of any particular spar, sail, etc.

A contribution made by all parties concerned in a sea venture toward a loss which has been sustained by the voluntary sacrifice on the part of the master of the property of some of the parties in the interest and for the benefit of all. It is called general average because it falls upon the entire ship's cargo and freight at risk, and which has been saved by the sacrifice.

Particular average signifies the partial loss or damage which has happened to the ship, cargo, or freight in consequence of some unavoidable accident, and it is either borne by the individual owners or their insurers.

An assorted cargo such as is legalized for general transportation--gunpowder and explosives, heavy machinery, etc., excepted.

SCHOONER YACHT UNDER WAY, SHOWING SQUARESAIL SET

1. Squaresail Yard.

2. Head Cringles of Sail.

3. Squaresail.

4. Bonnet.

5. Place where Bonnet is laced to Squaresail.

6. Clew, where Sheet leads from.

7. Yard Arms.

8. Yard Guys.

9. Squaresail Sheet.

10. Slings of Yard.

The captain's particular boat.

The oarsmen belonging to the gig.

A sailor's name for anything he does not know the name of; also the name applied to a makeshift contrivance on board ship.

A pair of rings one of which swings within the other, their respective axles being at right angles to each other; one of the rings provide for the roll or heel of the ship, and its companion for the pitch of the vessel. The ship's compass is suspended within gimbals so that its face may always preserve a horizontal position.

To gimblet an anchor is to turn it around when it is hanging from the cathead or from the hawse pipe.

A block made entirely of metal.

Carvings and other fancy work about a vessel. Also applies to unsubstantial fittings on board ship.

To perform a task cautiously.

A frapping for holding anything together.

The situation of a vessel when her cables are so taut, owing to either the wind or tide, that she does not swing.

(See Gantline.)

To pursue.

An order to a boat's crew to begin pulling.

Lay out on your oars means to pull with more force.

An order for all the oarsmen to pull in unison.

A general name for the mercurial barometer and telescope.

The lazarette is sometimes referred to as the glory hole.