t of the hull.


  =Scud.= To run before a wind. A kind of cloud.

  =Seize.= To make fast or bind.

  =Selvage.= A strap made of yarns loosely bound together.

  =Sheave.= The wheel within a block or any wheel over which a rope
    runs.

  =Sheer.= To vary from a direct course. The curve from bow to stern
    horizontally.

  =Sheet.= A rope attached to a sail and by which the sail is held
    and worked. On a square sail, ropes which spread the sails.

  =Snorter or snotter.= A rope strap into which the heel of a sprit
    is slipped.

  =Soldier’s wind.= A beam wind.

  =Spill.= To throw the wind out of a sail.

  =Splice.= A method of joining two objects together so the joint is
    no larger than the rest of the object.

  =Spring.= To crack or bend a spar. A rope made fast to a cable, to
    some spot ashore, to a buoy or mooring, or to another vessel and
    then led aft in order to swing a vessel’s stern in any desired
    direction. To start a plank. To start a leak.

  =Sprit.= A light spar used to extend a sail.

  =Squatting.= Settling down by the stern.

  =Starboard.= The right-hand side.

  =Stay.= A rope or wire used as a support to a spar.

  =Sternboard.= To move backward stern first.


  =Tack.= To proceed against the wind by zigzags. The forward corner
    of a fore-and-aft sail.

  =Tackle.= Any arrangement of ropes and blocks.

  =Taut.= Tight.

  =Truck.= The top of a mast.


  =Unbend.= To cast off; to unfasten.


  =Veer.= To turn. To pay out cable.


  =Wake.= The track left by a vessel in the water.

  =Watch.= A division of the crew. The length of time a man is on
    duty.

  =Wear.= To turn a boat’s head into the wind and then around until
    she has the wind on the opposite side.

  =Weather helm.= When a tiller or helm must be kept to windward to
    prevent a boat from flying into the wind.

  =Weathering.= Surviving anything, such as a gale or storm. Getting
    to windward of anything.

  =Weigh.= To hoist or lift, especially to lift the anchor.

  =Wind’s eye.= The ex