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  2. Mooring - Wikipedia

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    Mooring involves (a) beaching the boat, (b) drawing in the mooring point on the line (where the marker buoy is located), (c) attaching to the mooring line to the boat, and (d) then pulling the boat out and away from the beach so that it can be accessed at all tides.

  3. Portolan chart - Wikipedia

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    Several definitions of portolan chart coexist in the literature. A narrow definition includes only medieval [5] or, at the latest, early modern sea charts (i.e. maps that primarily cover maritime rather than inland regions) that include a network of rhumb lines and do not show any indication of the use of latitude or longitude coordinates. [6]

  4. Mooring (oceanography) - Wikipedia

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    Mooring as deployed in Fram Strait with top buoy, a CTD-sensor, two rotor current meters, acoustic release and train wheels as anchor. A mooring in oceanography is a collection of devices connected to a wire and anchored on the sea floor. It is the Eulerian way of measuring ocean currents, since a mooring is

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

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    Mediterranean mooring. Also Med moor and Tahitian mooring. A method of mooring stern-to. merchant marine A collective term for all merchant ships registered in a given country and the civilians (especially those of that nationality) who man them; the ships and personnel in combination are said to constitute that country's merchant marine.

  6. Berth (moorings) - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of berth types based on the method of construction: [1] Solid structure berth In these berths, a solid vertical structure is created to contain fill material which is brought all the way to the structure.

  7. Marine navigation - Wikipedia

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    Navigation (from the Latin word navigatio) is the act of sailing or voyaging.Nautical (from Latin nautĭca, and this from Greek ναυτική [τέχνη] nautikḗ [téjne] "[art of] sailing" and from ναύτης nautes "sailor") is that pertaining to navigation and the science and art of sailing.

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

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    Diagram of the position of a centerboard on a boat Also centerplate (American spelling), centreplate (British spelling). A wooden board or metal plate which can be pivoted through a fore-and-aft slot along the centerline in the hull of a sailing vessel, functioning as a retractable keel to help the boat resist leeway by moving its center of ...

  9. Sailing - Wikipedia

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    Lines used to tie a boat up when alongside are called docklines, docking cables or mooring warps. A rode is what attaches an anchored boat to its anchor. [71] Other than starboard and port, the sides of the boat are defined by their relationship to the wind. The terms to describe the two sides are Windward and leeward. The windward side of the ...