Shipboard Seaman Terms

For Sea Men and boaters starting out, many terms often used by boaters, cause many a headache in learning these terms.Here for you is a list of most common and widely used terms in the modern day boating vocabulary.

So prepared for you is a basic list, that if you are a boater, you should learn. This can help you tremendously in understanding the lingo used by seaman and boaters.

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- Floorboards - The deck on which crew and passengers walk and navigate aboard the boat. 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.

3- Beam - Where the boat is the widest is called the beam.

4- Stem - The very most froward part of the boat (the front of the bow)

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

6- Wake- When a ship or oat travels trhough the water it disturbes it, causing waves and a trail to form for a distance behind the boat.

7- Port - The left side of vessel when you are facing the bow.

8- Man Overboard - When a crew or passenger falls off the ship, this is deemed an emergency and "Man Overboard" is called out to the entire ship in an effort to rescue the victim who fell into the water.

9- Aboard - If you are with in or somewhere on the boat, you are aboard the boat.

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- Abaft - To go abaft would be to go toward the boats stern- behind.

12- Beam - The widest part of the boat is it's beam.

13- Flares - When a boat is in trouble, the use of emergency flares fired from a flare gun, is used as a distress signal; can usually show a boats location from miles at night.

14- Navigate - When you plot, chart and execute your boat trip, from one destination to another, you have nagigated a course.

15- Aboard - If you are on the boat somewhere, you are aboard.

16- Capsize - The act of the sea vessel over turning in the water.

17- Flood - Incoming water currents,usually from an unwanted opening, on a boat usually unless corrected, is a precurser to the boat sinking.

18- Overboard - If you fall off the boat, you are overboard.

19- Nautical Mile - 1 minute of latitude, around 6075 feet , or an eighth longer that a 5280 foot long statute mile.

20- Flooding - When incoming currents of water start to fill up the vessel, potentially causing the potential of the boat sinking.

21- Galley - Where a crew member or passenger can go eat while onboard a boat. The food is prepared there as well by trained cooks, or maybe you or your wife?

22- Batten Down - When you close doors and water tight hatches, you are battening down. This also includes securing all lose objects and materials so they do not go flying about durring or a storm for example. Battening down can prevent a boat from sinking or people from getting hurt by falling or flailing objects.

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