Architecture and design
Shelf: The team is an enclosed or unenclosed storage space where one stores one's belongings.
Bed: Banette
Kitchen: Cambuse
Window : Porthole or glazing
Roof: Roof
Steering wheel: If in motorboating, one uses the term steering wheel lightly, in sailing, one will use the term barr e. This can be either direct - directly engaged with the rudder - or wheel - with gear lines.
Floor: floor
An anchor locker: an anchorage
String: Tip . This generic term designates all the ropes on the edge, the string being reserved for ropes that are almost useless.
Front of the boat: Prow
Stern of the boat: Stern
Boat weight : the displacement (weight of the volume of water displaced by the ship)
Hull height : Freeboard
A leak in the hull: a Waterway
Manoeuvring and Navigation
Management: Cape Town . We'll use a compass for that.
Left/Right : Port / Starboard
Parking a boat: Go to
Step back: Culer
Lowering/raising the sails : Hoisting/lowering the sails
Shifting the weights on board a boat : Matosser . The art of matossage consists in balancing the weights of the edge.
Pulling/releasing a sail: tucking/shocking a sail
Touching the bottom : Contact
Entering a channel: Muddying a channel
Pulling a rope: Take up the slack in a rope
Ship's elk: Ship's error
Tighten a halyard: Tacking a halyard
Folding a sail: Furling a sail
Lean in navigation : Giter
Miscellaneous
Shopping: Fuelling up or provision
Scrub: Raguer . For example, we are talking about a rope or a boat ramming against the wharf.
Power change : Current reversal . That means it's changing course.
A landmark on land: a Bitter
Attaching objects on board : Arrive
