When we navigate, we use a very special vocabulary. You will never hear you go to the right or move away from the wind, but rather, starboard and abat?! So just to pass the time, we have concocted a little game for you. Will you be able to find the definitions of each phrase "marine" ?? We'll let you answer in commentary by associating each proposition (numbers) to its answer (letters).
1 - Going for the kill
2 - Taking a reef
3 - Spread the mainsail
4 - An overpowered rope on his winch
5 - The yacht is wandering around
6 - Coil one end
7 - He desalinated
8 - Climbing on the trapeze
9 - Installs defences
10 - Hauling a boat
11 - Furling a sail
Answers
A -Strengthen and tension as much as possible by pulling on the halyard.
B - Put the body outside the boat to act as a counterweight by being suspended by a cable attached to the mast
C - Reduce the sail area, i.e. reduce the surface area of the mainsail carried by the sailboat.
D - Pulling tacks around the wind axis when you cannot go straight (upwind or downwind).
E - Pulling the boat from land or a pontoon using a mooring line.
F - We are talking here about a boat that knocks down (moves away from the direction from which the wind comes) in an involuntary way.
G - Install the mobile protections, often in the form of a PVC coil, inflated with air on the lines to protect the hull of the boat.
H - A rope whose turns overlap on the winch and which is therefore impossible to tuck or shock.
I - Capsize in light sail.
J - Fold an accordion sail.
K - Arrange one end by assembling the same size of genes.
It's up to you!
