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 Common Everyday Used Boating Terms

Knowing these terms and their definitions can be much to your advantage. These terms can also be boat specific, but don't shirk learning them.

If you Google On Line Boating, you will find courses where all of these terms are defined. You will become more an expert for your effort in learning them.

1- Wake - When boats move accross the water, a wake is left trailing the boat that looks like a path of churning waves and disturbed water trailing behind the boat.

2- Portside - If you are facing the fron of the boat, the left side of the boat is the port side.

3- Tide - The ocean levels rise and fall, from the moons gravitational pull. On earth, this causes ocean levels to rise, as when the tide comes in.. or when the water levels drop is referred to when the tide goes out.

4- Flooding - An incoming overwhelming force and volume of water, that could possibly sink the boat, if not stopped.

5- Abaft - If you are walking towards the rear of the boat, you are going abaft.

6- Cabin - These are what the crew or passengers use to get out of the elements. Another word for this purpose would be compartment.

7- Stern - At the rear of the boat is the stern.

8- Abeam - is not on the boat, but at right angles to the boats keel.

9- Stem - At the fron of the boat is the bow. The most forward part of the bow is the stem.

10- Capsize - If your watercraft is flipped over for any reason, rather a rogue wave, or from being blown over from huricane gail force winds. It has capsized.

11- Tide - Due to the pull of the moons gravity, the water levels of the oceans rise at its strongest pull, and drops when it lessens. In port, the water will be deaper at high tide, and less deap at low tide.

12- Aboard - If you are anywhere on the boat, you are onboard the boat.

13- Latitude - In the measurement of degrees north or south of the Equator is called Latitude.

14- Ground Tackle - Usually designates the anchor, its chain and assorted equipment that goes with it.

15- Bearing - An objects direction designated on the chart as it's true bearing, or in relation to the boats heading, it's realative bearing.

16- Ground Tackle - Seamans use this term for the Anchor and the equipment that goes with it.

17- Below - Beneath the upper deck is the below decks, the lower decks.

18- Intracoastal Waterways - Inland waterways, rivers, canals, ajacent to the coasts that water vessels travel through with out going out to sea. Also called I.C.W.