parts of the boat
the back of a sail boat
What is stern?
Reduced price of an item at a grocery store
What is sale?
Point of sail where your sails are luffing
What is irons?
A knot commonly used to secure the jib sheets on a 420
What is figure eight?
Examples: rocks, boats, rowers, sea life, etc.
What is sheet(s)?
Sound that thunder might make
What is BOOM?
Point of sail where sails are out halfway
What is beam reach?
Knot used to tie two ropes of equal diametre together
What is reef knot?
Three ways to identify where the wind is coming from
Examples: flag, moored boats, wind indicators, ears, ticklers/telltales etc.
Sail control that connects mast to boom
Something that your alarm clock tells you to do!
What is wake?
Action of steering your boat closer to the wind
What is heading up?
A secure loop at the end of a line
What is bowline?
The name of every single instructor working at AYC this summer (100 bonus points if you can name our sailing school manager)
What is Ellah, Gavin, Olivia, Zane, Connor, Dom, Caitlin, Kira?
The boat part that holds the top of an opti or pram sail up and connects to the mast
What is sprit pole?
Step before drying your clothes while doing laundry
What is wash?
Phenomenon that lets you steer higher to a target (eg. mark) while sailing on a close haul
What is lift/header?
What is sheets bend?
Local regatta held in the HRM area (five listed - 100 bonus points if you can name them all)
Bay Wind, Bamse, No tears, Ark, AYC LTS regatta, etc.
Sail control on a 420 that adjusts the luff of the mainsail
What is cunningham?
Action that you may do to a king/queen/royalty to show respect
What is bow?
Wind shift caused by buildings, mountains, or other land masses
Commonly used to secure the spinnaker sheets and halyard (hint: same use as a figure eight)
What is barrell knot?
We also have adult lessons in the evenings and weekends! The boats that they use to learn to sail (100 bonus points to name the one that sunk last summer)
What is soling?