sailing vessel
61Square (sailing) — In sailing, to square a yard is to lay the yards at right angles to the line of the keel by trimming with the braces that is, to sail with the wind directly behind the vessel rather than tacking …
62oblique sailing — noun : the movement of a vessel when it sails upon a course making an oblique angle with the meridian * * * the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points. [1700 10] …
63Vaka (sailing) — The vaka is the main hull of a multihull vessel.cite web |url=http://proafile.com/view/weblog/comments/a primer on proas/ title=A primer on proas accessdate=2007 10 30] Origin and use of the termThe term vaka , like the related terms aka and ama …
64keel vessel — any of various types of sailing vessels in which a fixed, projecting keel gives lateral resistance. * * * …
65oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points. [1700 10] * * * …
66right sailing — noun : the movement of a vessel when it sails on one of the four cardinal points so as to alter either its latitude or longitude but not both …
67keel vessel — any of various types of sailing vessels in which a fixed, projecting keel gives lateral resistance …
68S/V — • sailing vessel …
69s.v. — sailing vessel …
70East Indiaman — ▪ sailing craft large sailing vessel of the type built from the 16th to the 19th century for the trade between Europe and southern Asia. The first were Portuguese and Dutch; English Indiamen appeared late in the 16th century and eventually… …
