Language of the Sea 5
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Language of the Sea
FACE-PIECES -
Pieces of wood wrought on the fore part of the knee of the head.
FACING -
Setting one piece of timber into another sing a rabbet joint.
FAG -
A rope is fagged when the end is untwisted.
FAIR -
To adjust to a proper size.
FAIRWAY -
Navigable water in a channel, harbor, or river.
FAIR-LEADER -
A strip of board or plank, with holes in it, for running rigging to lead through.
Also, a block or thimble used for the same purpose.
FAKE -
One of the circles or rings made in coiling a rope.
FALL -
That part of the tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
FALSE-KEEL -
Pieces of timber secured under the main keel of vessels.
FANCY-LINE -
A line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff, used as a downhaul.
Also, a line used for cross-hauling the lee-topping lift.
FANG -
To fang the pump is to prime the pump.
FAREWELL BUOY -
Buoy at end of channel leading to the sea.
FASHION-PIECES -
The aftermost timbers, terminating the breadth and forming the shape of the stern.
FAST -
Said of an object that is secured to another.
FAST ICE -
Ice mass attached to land and extending seaward.
FATHOM -
Six feet.
FEATHER -
To feather an oar in rowing is to turn the blade horizontally with the top aft as it comes out of the water.
FENDER -
A cushion, placed between boats, or between a boat and a pier, to prevent damage.
FID -
A block of wood or iron, placed through the hole in the heel of a mast and resting on the ttrestle-trees of the mast below. This supports the mast.
Also, a wooden pin, tapered, used in splicing large ropes.
FIDDLES -
Wooden fittings clamped to meal tables in foul weather, limiting movement of utensils.
FIDDLE-BLOCK -
A long shell, having one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper.
FIELD ICE -
Ice pack whose limits cannot be seen from the ship.
FIFE-RAIL -
The rail going round a mast.
FIGURE EIGHT KNOT -
A knot in the form of a figure eight, placed in the end of a line to prevent the line from passing through a grommet or a block.
FIGUREHEAD -
A carved head, or full-length feature, over the cutwater.
FILLINGS -
Pieces of wood used to make the curve fair for the mouldings, between the edges of the fish-front and the sides of the mast.
FINISHING -
Carved ornaments of the quarter-galley, between the second counter, and above the upper lights.
FISH -
To raise the flukes of an anchor upon the deck.
Also, to strengthen a spar when loose or weak, by putting in, or fastening to another piece.
Fish-front; Fish-sides; see ( MADE MAST )
FISH-DAVIT -
The davit used for fishing an anchor.
FLAKE -
To coil a rope so that each coil lies alongside the previous coil, allowing rope to run freely.
FLAME ARRESTER -
A safety device, such as a metal mesh protector, to prevent an exhaust backfire from causing an explosion; operates by absorbing heat.
FLARE -
The outward curve of a vessel's sides near the bow. A distress signal.
FLAT -
A sheet is said to be hauled flat, when it is hauled down close.
Flat-aback, when a sail is blown with it's after surface against the mast.
FLEMISH-COIL
See ( FRENCH-FAKE )
FLEMISH-EYE -
A kind of eye-splice.
FLEMISH-HORSE -
An additional foot rope at the ends of topsail yards.
FLOOD -
Flow of water over a surface.
FLOOR TIMBERS -
Those timbers of a vessel which are placed across the keel.
FLOTSAM -
Material remaining floating after a shipwreck. Sometimes, referred to anything floating in a scattered mass.
FLOWING SHEET -
When a vessel has the wind free, and the lee clews eased off.
FLUKES -
The broad triangular plates at the extremity of the arms of an anchor, terminating in a point called the bill.
FLY -
That part of a flag which extends from the Union to the extreme end.
FLYING BRIDGE -
An added set of controls above the level of the normal control station for better visibility. Usually open, but may have a collapsible top for shade.
FOLLOWING SEA -
An overtaking sea that comes from astern.
FOOT -
The lower end of a mast or sail. See ( Fore-foot )
FOOT-ROPE -
The rope stretching along a yard, upon which sailors stand when reefing or furling. A.K.A. horses.
FOOT-WALING -
The inside planks or lining of a vessel, over the floor timbers.
FORE -
Used to distinguish the forward part of a vessel, or things in that direction, as fore mast, or fore hatch, in opposition to aft, or after.
FORE AND AFT -
In a line parallel to the keel.
FORECASTLE -
That part of the upper deck forward of the foremast.
Also, the forward part of the vessel under the deck.
FORE-DECK -
Forward topside part of the deck.
FORE-FOOT -
A piece of timber at the forward extremity of the keel, upon which the lower end of the stem rests.
FORE-LOCK -
A flat piece of metal, driven through the end of a bolt, to prevent it's drawing.
FORE MAST -
The forward mast of all vessels.
FOREREACH -
To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays.
FORE-RUNNER -
A piece of rag, terminating the stray line of a log-line.
FORGE -
To forge ahead, to shoot ahead; as in coming to anchor after the sails are furled.
See ( FOREREACH )
FORMERS -
Pieces of wood used for shaping cartridges, or wads.
FOTHER, OR FODDER -
To draw a sail, filled with oakum, under a vessel's bottom to stop a leak.
FORWARD -
Toward the bow of the boat.
FOTHERING -
Closing small leaks in a vessel's hull by drawing a sail filled with oakum, submerging it and closing it tightly around the hole.
FOULED -
Any piece of equipment that is jammed or entangled, or dirtied.
FOUNDER -
When a vessel fills with water and sinks.
FOX -
Made by twisting together two or more rope-yarns.
A Spanish fox is made by untwisting a single yarn and laying it up the contrary way.
FRAP -
To pass ropes round a sail to keep it from blowing loose.
Also, to draw ropes round a vessel which is weakened, to keep her together.
FREE -
A vessel is going free when she has a fair wind and her yards braced in. A vessel is said to be free when the water is pumped out of her.
FREEBOARD -
The distance between the gunwales and the waterline.
FRESHEN -
To relieve a rope, by moving it's place; as to freshen the nip of a stay, is to shift it to prevent its' chafing through.
FRENCH-FAKE -
To coil a rope with each fake outside of the other, beginning in the middle. If there are to be riding fakes, ( Flemish coil )they begin outside and travel in, repeating the process until complete.
FREEBOARD -
The minimum vertical distance from the surface of the water to the gunwale.
FULL -AND- BY -
Sailing close-hauled on a wind.
Full and by! The order given to the man at the helm to keep the sail full and at the same time close to the wind.
FULL-RIGGED SHIP -
Originally a three masted ship in which all masts were fully square-rigged. Later, also square-rigged ships with more than three masts.
FURL -
To roll a sail up snugly on a yard or boom, and secure it.
FUTTOCK-PLATES -
Metal plates crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are fitted to their upper ends, and the futtock-shrouds to their lower ends.
FUTTOCK-SHROUDS -
Short shrouds, leading from the lower ends of the futtock-plates to a bend round the lower mast, just below the top.
FUTTOCK-STAFF -
A short piece of wood or metal, seized across the upper part of the rigging, to which the catharpin legs are secured.
FUTTOCK-TIMBERS -
Those timbers between the floor and naval timbers, and the top-timbers. There are two:
The lower, which is over the floor, and the middle, which is over the naval timber. The naval timber is sometimes called the ground futtock.
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