Study Guide for Bytown Brigantine Trainee Logbook

Level III - Watch Officer [Senior]

Appendix III-D

Miscellaneous Terms

Requirement of Level 3 Item 26.

 • carvel planking
 • clinker planking
 • ballast
 • bilge keels
 • garboard strake
 • sheer strake
 • bilge strake
 • offing
 • heart
 • vang
 • electrolysis
 • brakish
 • gimbals
 • handy-billy
 • boot top
 • Plimsoll Marks
 • trysail
 • "bare poles"
 • to reeve
 • to back
 • to gripe
 • to carry away
 • to claw off
 • to founder
 • to careen
 • rubbing strake
 • hard chine
 • soft chine
 • forefoot
 • stem/king post
 • baffles
 • limber holes
 • deadlight
 • caulking
 • seaming compound
 • camber
 • tumble home 
 • rake
 • sheer
 • trim
 • hogging 
 • sagging
 • racking stresses
 • panting stresses
 • pounding stresses
 • gravity
 • center of gravity
 • buoyancy
 • center of buoyancy
 • reserve buoyancy
 • initial stability
 • free surface
 • displacement
 • stiff/tender vessels

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