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Number of Blossarys: 7
English (EN) The quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind).
List refers to a ship leaning to one side under stable conditions, often caused by uneven loading or flooding. By contrast "roll" refers to the dynamic movement from side to side caused by waves.
The term 'leeway' refers to the drift of a ship or an aircraft to leeward of the course being steered.
Hogging is the stress a ship's hull or keel experiences that causes the center or the keel to bend upward.
A hank is a ringlike fitting that can be opened to admit a stay for attaching the luff of a sail.
GRT is the capacity of a merchant vessel, expressed either in units of weight, as deadweight tons, or of volume, as gross tons.
On a cargo vessel it refers to the distance between the uppermost deck considered fully watertight and the official load line.
By: abbeygrech