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2. List of ship directions - Wikipedia

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   Fore or forward: at or toward the front of a ship or further ahead of a location (opposite of "aft") [1] Preposition form is "before", e.g. "the mainmast is before the mizzenmast". Inboard: attached inside the ship. [14] Keel: the bottom structure of a ship's hull. [15] Leeward: side or direction away from the wind (opposite of "windward"). [16]

3. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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   The sides of a ship. To describe a ship as "on her beam ends" may mean the vessel is literally on her side and possibly about to capsize; more often, the phrase means the vessel is listing 45 degrees or more. beam reach Sailing with the wind coming across the vessel's beam. This is normally the fastest point of sail for a fore-and-aft-rigged ...

4. Stern - Wikipedia

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   The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite the bow, the foremost part of a ship. Originally, the term only referred to the aft port section of the ship, but eventually came to refer to the ...

5. AFT - Wikipedia

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   Afitti language, spoken in Sudan (ISO 639: aft) Aft, nautical term meaning ' towards the stern (rear) of the ship ' Afternoon; American Flat Track; American Freedom Train; Ancestry Family Tree, genealogy software program

6. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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   Any unusually large wave for a given sea state; formally, a wave whose height is more than twice the significant wave height of that sea state (i.e. the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record). roll 1. The side-to-side motion of a vessel as it rotates about the fore-aft (longitudinal) axis.

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