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Welcome to the Yachts and Boating Glossary. Nautical terms and phrases are listed below alphabetically. If you spot any mistakes or have any new entries to wish to add please email us at info@yachtsandboating.com.
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| Back | Anti-clockwise change in the wind direction.
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| Backstay | Rear stay holding the mast.
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| Bailer | Small receptacle for removing water from a boat.
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| Ballast | Weight placed low down within the hull of a boat to improve stability.
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| Balwarks | Wooden or steel rail running around the deck edge.
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| Bar | Shallow patch of water across the mouth of a river or entrance to a harbour.
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| Battens | Strips of flexible plastic, wood or GRP inserted into pockets on a sail to maintain a good shape.
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| Beacon | A fixed mark or structure to aid navigation/warn of hazards.
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| Beam | The width of a boat.
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| Bearing | The compass direction of an object from another.
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| Beating | Sailing to windward by repeatedly tacking across the wind.
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| Becket | An eye or loop in rope.
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(the mast) Towards the bow.
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| Belay | To make fast or secure a rope; (colloquially to cancel or change an order).
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| Bend | A category of knot for joining ropes together.
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| Berth | Place for a boat to dock.
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| Bight | The middle or loop of a rope.
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| Bilge | Internal underwater area of a boat hull where water collects.
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| Binnacle | The housing for a steering compass.
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| Bitts | A pair of verticle posts for securing mooring lines or anchor warps.
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| Block | A plastic, metal or wooden shell holding one or more sheaves through which ropes are led.
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| Bluff | Steep-to, perpendicular.
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| Bollard | A verticle post for securing mooring lines.
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| Boom | A spar used to hold the foot of a sail out.
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| Bottlescrew | A device for adding tension to a fixed rope or cable.
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| Bow | The forward end of a boat.
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| Bowline | Knot used to create a loop in a length of rope (can be on the blight, running or fixed).
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| Bowsprit | Spar projecting forward of the stem.
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| Broach | To swing over broadside to the sea.
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| Bulkhead | Vertical partition witin a boat.
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| Bunk | Bed.
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| Buoy | A float to aid navigation or moor to.
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| Burgee | A triangular flag flown to show membership of a club.
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