Boat Parts
The back of the boat.
What is the stern?
The left side of the boat.
What is port?
The bow of your boat passes through the wind.
What is a tack?
The sails will flap on this point of sail.
A boat on this tack has the right of way.
What is starboard?
The rope which is used to secure the boat to the dock.
The right side of the boat.
What is starboard?
Parking your boat.
What is docking?
What is close hauled?
When two boats are on the same tack, this boat will have the right of way.
What is the leeward boat?
The part which stops the boat from drifting.
What is a dagger board?
The speed of the wind is measured in these units.
The stern of your boat passes through the wind.
What is a gybe?
When the boat is heading directly away from the wind.
When a boat is too close to the wind.
What is pinching?
The part which the skipper handles to steer the boat.
What is the tiller extension?
Getting closer to the wind.
What is heading up?
The point of sail perpendicular to the wind.
What is beam reach?
What is port?
The side of the boat on which sailors sit.
What is the gunwale?
Away from the wind.
What is leeward?
Tipping the boat towards the wind.
The point of sail that is almost dead down wind.
What is sailing by the lee?
This point of sail is the fastest.
What is beam reach?