ASA 101 Vocabulary
Abaft - ✅✅-Toward the stern, as in "abaft the beam"
Abeam - ✅✅-Off the boat at right angles to its centerline.
Aft - ✅✅-Toward the stern or behind the boat
Aground - ✅✅-When the hull or keel is touching the bottom
Aid to navigation - ✅✅-A buoy or other device deployed to mark a
channel, a navigational feature, or hazard
✅✅-Above the deck, usually in the rig
Aloft -
Amidships - ✅✅-At or toward the middle of the boat
Anchor - ✅✅-A device lowered to the bottom while secured to the boat
to hold the boat stationary
Apparent wind - ✅✅ -The combination of true wind and the wind effect
of motion as felt aboard a moving boat
Astern - ✅✅-Behind the stern
Athwartship - ✅✅-Across the boat from side to side
Backstay - ✅✅-A wire support from the top of the mast to the stern
Ballast - ✅✅-Weight placed low in the boat to give it stability
Batten - ✅✅-A slat inserted in the leech of a sail to support the
sailcloth
Batten Pocket - ✅✅-A pocket sewn into the sail to hold a batten
Beacon - ✅✅-An aid to navigation that's fixed in place
, Beam (1) - ✅✅-The width of a boat at it's widest point
Beam (2) - ✅✅-The region of the boats sides halfway between bow
and stern
Beam Reach - ✅✅-The point of sail where the wind is abeam of the
boat
Bear away - ✅✅-To turn the boat away from the wind, fall off
Bend - ✅✅-A knot used to tie a line to another line or to an object
Blanketed - ✅✅-Hidden from the wind, as when one sail is blanketed
by another
✅✅-A pully
Block -
Boathook - ✅✅-A pole with a hook on one end useful for snagging a
line or a ring
Bolt rop - ✅✅ -a rope sewn into the edge of a sail, often used to attach
it to the mast or boom
Boom -✅✅-the spar that supports the foot of the mainsail
Boom Vang - ✅✅-an item of running rigging, often a block and tackle,
used to hold down the boom
Bow - ✅✅-the forward part of a boat
Bowline - ✅✅-a knot that forms a loop in the end of a line
Bow line - ✅✅-a dock line tied between the bow of a boat and a dock
Broad reach - ✅✅-the point of sail between a beam reach and a run
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