Sailing Manuevers
What is the difference between a tack and a jibe?
what is bow through the wind for a tack and stern through the wind for a jibe?
What knot is used as a stopper knot?
What is a figure eight? (will also accept barrel knot)
I keep you hooked in so you don't slip. Feet slide in and your weight goes out to keep the boat flat and fast. What am I?
What are hiking straps?
Avoid me or it might hurt
What is the boom?
this sailing staff member has been here the longest
who is bryant?
used to come to a temporary stop
What is safety position?
This knot can be undone just as quick as it is tied
What is a slip knot?
Darker water, greater breeze....what am I?
What is a puff?
You want to make sure I am down before you leave the dock. You pull down on me to right a capsize. What am I?
What is a centerboard?
oh no! someone fell in the water!
what is crew overboard?
This knot is used to tie a boat to a dock that does not have cleats, but pilings
What is a clove hitch?
What keeps a sails shape?
What are battens?
Red and green, I flutter in the wind, I am most happy when I am streaming straight back
What is are tell tales?
your boat is stuck in the wind after a failed tack, so you can...
what is backwinding?
What knot is used to create a fixed loop and can be used to tie around something?
What is a bowline?
What is the process to react to gusts of breeze to keep your boat flat?
What is ease, hike, trim?
I hold the rig up, but I don't like to run
What are shrouds?
if synchronized swimming was a sailing maneuver
what is a roll tack?
What knot is used to tie two lines together of different diameters?
What is a sheet bend?
This might happen when you sailing to close to the wind, your sails will begin luffing
What is pinching?
the leeward corner of a sail, where the outhaul is attached
what is the clew?