Comprehensive Guide to Marine Equipment and Terminology

Anchor

Instrument of iron or heavy and strong, in the form of a harpoon or hook.

Double that, attached to the end of a rope, chain, or cable to the vessel and

thrown into the water, holding the ship in the background.

1. Plow anchor. Figure 1-37.

2. Danforth anchor. Figure 1-35.

Windlass

Horizontal axis machine used to weigh chains, which has an

iron mechanism called chainstopper used to bite and stop

the chain. Often incorporates drums (Cabirol or warping ends) goes

charge ends.

Gypsy

Part of the windlass drum-shaped notches or molds where

the mating link in the chain is gaining as the anchor.

The gypsy was in gear when you turn the reel to turn the anchor or

decouples and is firm to the brake for the shaft to rotate and move

warping heads to turn ends.

Escobar

Where you pass through the anchor chain.

Rudder

Plate or blade, wood or metal, which is placed in a vertical position

revolves around an axis, is positioned aft of the ship, used to

govern vessels (synonymous with cane).

1. Regular helm: that the whole part of the blade is located aft of

the axis of rotation. Figure 1-48.

2. Balanced rudder, when the blade is on both sides of the shaft. Figure 1-49.

Propellers

Is the driving element of a boat equipped with a motor.

1.

Step: This is what a propeller would advance (theoretically, in a solid) to

a full turn.

2.

Flashback: As the propeller is moving in water, loss of theoretical advance

is called back.

3.

Diameter: Twice the distance from the center of the core to

end or tip of the blade. Figure 1-52.

4.

Variable pitch propeller: is one in which the active faces of their blades

are not helical surfaces.

5.

Multi-pitch propeller: propeller is one in which the blades

form a single piece with the core and through a mechanism that can

step change at will.

6.

Left-handed helix: going ahead the bow falls Er, in reverse Br

That is, advances when turning left.

7.

Right-handed helix: going ahead the bow down to Br, in reverse

Er.

Cavitation

Phenomenon whereby the propeller sucks more water than the

boat provides moving. So moving on

means less dense than water (water + air), as a consequence,

revolutionizes too much and transmits vibrations and unusual noises. For

therefore, the propellers are oxidized (to compensate for oxidation are installed,

fins usually stern-called “sacrificial anode”).

P. 1-28.

Cabos

Are named all the strings used on board manufactured

of any kind of textile or metal.

Structure: Several fibers form the filástica kinkier, more filásticas

up the cord and several strands Cape.

Chicote

Name that designates the end of a rope or cable.

Within

It’s the bow or curvature forming out between the ends that hold it.

Sign

It is the longest part or main place.

Gaza

It’s kind of an eye, ring, or oval that is done in the whip from one side and

used to make out or hook sign something in it. Figure 2-12.

Boza

It is a piece of rope or string two or three feet long with one

final end in a hook or eyebolt, with the other extreme,

turns through bites, sign is out. Figure 1-56.

Bollards

Pieces, usually of iron, asserted in the spring to engage the

mooring of vessels (encapillar). They have the same function as

bollards.

Dead

in the background, they are subjected to the buoys or beacons.

Buoys and Beacons

Floaters are tied to the dead used to tie the

vessels, signaling danger, channels, entrances to ports, etc.

Defense

Tool used to protect boats from rubbing or bumping the

dock or other boats or touching the spring.

Hook

It is a wooden pole with a fitting (hook) firmly on one end.

Its function is to assist in the docking or undocking of small

vessels.

Fiber Ropes

Artificial

1.

Polyester: petroleum products have great endurance, flexibility, no

float, are unaffected by environmental action. Use: rigging

work.

2.

Nylon: Nylon petroleum, very strong and elastic.

Use: anchors, moorings, and trailers.

3.

Propylene: Very resistant to abrasion, harsh touch, float and are

light.

4.

Kevlar: Combines strength with an elasticity close to zero (five times

stronger than steel cable), very expensive. Use: halyards and sheets

for sailboat racing.

Heel

It is the act of knocking down or tilting the vessel. It is the result of force

depression.

Flooding

It is placed upright a boat (be righting the ship when it stops

force or the weight that lists).

Windward

When one looks at a part where you get the

wind.

Leeward

Taken as a reference, sets out where the wind goes.

Receivable

Equivalent to picking up a pulling itself out (synonym of pull).

Templar

Power up a rope, cable, or chain (Tesar synonymous).

Lascar

Letting go, releasing, or lowering a rope that is working, like going by releasing little

bit (synonymous with filar).

Arria

Loosen one end. “Arria I ask for is letting go as the need.

Long