An-end to Balance Frames

The position of any mast, etc., when erected perpendicularly on the deck. The topmasts are said to be an-end when they are hoisted up to their usual stations. This is also a common phrase for expressing the driving of anything in the direction of its length, as to force one plank, etc., to meet the butt of another.

The angle made with the line of direction by an impinging body at the point of impact; as that formed by the direction of the wind upon the sails or of the water upon the rudder of a ship.

The angle reckoned in degrees which marks the limit in a vessel's rolling. Should she roll beyond the limit she would upset. This angle varies according to the vessel. An instrument called the clinometer records the angles made in the rolling of a ship.

A kind of false or inner stem, fayed on the aftside of the stem, from the head down to the dead-wood, in order to strengthen it. It is immediately above the foremost end of the keel, and conforms exactly to the shape of the stem, so that the convexity of one applied to the concavity of the other forms one solid piece, which adds strength to the stem and more firmly connects it with the keel.

An elliptical moulding sprung over the cove at the lower part of the taffrail.

The after-face of the stern post.

A short piece of broad plank, bolted edgeways to the ship's side, in the range of the channels, to project and for the security of the dead-eyes and chains for the backstays. Sometimes the channels are left long enough to answer the purpose.

(See Frames.)

Those frames or bends of timber, of the same capacity or area, which are equally distant from the centre of gravity. (See Frames.)