There's seldom any curve that must be more fair than the sheer of a boat.
#Loading a wood runabout onto bunk trailer free#
A fair line is free of extraneous bumps or hollows, and an unfair line needs to be faired, or smoothed out. A "fair curve" or line is one that is as smooth as it can be as it follows the path it must take around the hull of a boat. When wood is bent or curved or cut, or a line drawn, a boatbuilder must be concerned about fairness. Now, fair is a term that is used whenever a boat is built. Stem and bow are used somewhat interchangeably, but bow refers more generally to the front area of the boat, while the stem is the extreme bow, and especially the shape or structure of it - as in, "a sharp stem," or "a fair curve to her stem." A transom is a flat face on the stern of a boat kayaks are pointy at both ends and don't have them, except for our Pax models.
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The TITANIC's bulkheads were famously inadequate. Amidships, or ‘midships, refers to the middle region of the boat athwartships refers to something running across the boat, perpendicular to the centerline of the boat, like a thwart.Ī bulkhead is an athwartships structural member, often watertight, that compartmentalizes the interior of a boat. Just remember that port and left have the same number of letters and you'll always know it.
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Of course, left and right is never heard aboard a boat, it's port and starboard. Here's a primer on some of the esoteric terminology used when building a small wooden boat.īoatbuilders don't refer to front and back on a boat, they say fore and aft, or forward (sometimes written "for'd") and aft, aft being towards the stern. White's Stuart Little where Stuart and a sailor friend mock another boat's owner, saying he doesn't know ".A jib from a jibe.or a luff from a leech.or a deck from a dock.or a mast from a mist." Not all of us grew up around boats, however, and you might find boating jargon a bit bewildering.