Part 16 (2/2)

Lee Current. One the movement of which is away from the wind.

Weather Current. One which sets towards the wind.

EBB, ebb-tide. See ”Tide.”

FAIR, wind. A wind which allows a vessel to head her desired compa.s.s course.

FALL OFF. A vessel falls off, when, without the action of the helm, her head moves away from the wind. See ”Come up.”

FILL. } Sails are said to fill, or to be full, when the wind FULL. } strikes the rear side, tending to move the vessel ahead.

FLOOD, flood tide. See ”Tide.”

FORE AND AFT. In cla.s.sification of vessels, indicates those whose sails, when set, stretch from forward aft; more nearly lengthwise than across. Opposite to square-rigged.

FOREMAST, fore-topmast, etc. See ”Spars.”

FORESAIL, fore-topsail, etc. See ”Sails.”

FOUL, to. To entangle, to collide. A foul anchor, when the cable gets round the anchor.

FOUL, wind. A wind which prevents the vessel heading the desired compa.s.s course, compelling her to beat.

FREE, wind. A wind which allows the vessel to head the course desired. The amount to spare from the close-hauled course is sometimes designated. E.g., the wind four points free; the wind would allow the vessel to come four points nearer the wind than her course requires.

FRIGATE. See ”Vessel.”

GAGE, weather and lee. A vessel, or fleet, is said to have the weather gage, when it is to windward of its opponent. Lee is opposite to weather.

HAUL, to. To haul (to) the wind is to change the course to that nearest the direction whence the wind comes.

To haul down the colors: to strike, to surrender.

HEAVE DOWN. To incline a vessel on one side, by purchases at the lower mastheads.

HEAVE-TO. (HOVE-TO.) To bring-to, (which see), and then to lay some sails aback, in order to keep the s.h.i.+p without movement ahead or astern.

HEEL, to. To incline a vessel on one side by s.h.i.+fting the weights on board, such as guns. ”On the heel”: to be thus inclined.

HELM. The tiller, or bar, which like a handle turns the rudder, and thus changes the course of the vessel.

Port the helm. To put the tiller to port, which turns the vessel's head to the right; to starboard the helm is the reverse.

Helm down. Tiller to leeward, vessel's head to windward; helm up, the reverse. See ”Rudder.”

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