knots
Simplest knot otherwise known as a 🥨knot
What is an overhand knot?
When both boats are on the same tack, this one has right of way.
What is the leeward boat?
The name of the river that the yacht club is on
What is the Beaufort river?
The metal ring on a sunfish that the mast goes through
What is a 🪿neck
The McTeer bridge is this direction from the yacht club.
What is South?
This 🪢
What is a square knot (or reef knot)
This is the number of boat lengths around a mark required to call for room in a race.
What is 3 boat lengths?
The name of the bridge that goes from lady’s island to downtown Beaufort
What is the Woods memorial bridge?
The material that the sunfish is mostly made out of.
What is fibreglass?
These are examples wind indicators
What are The flags, the moss, your ears, the sail?
The tail of the bowline should be on this side of the loop (inside/outside)
What is the inside
What is the overtaken vessel?
The name of the small blue sailboat in the mooring field that is owned by BCSB (used to be used for first sail)
What is the j22?
This is the type of cleat that holds the job sheets on a 420
What is a cam cleat
When the tide is ebbing, the current is flowing this direction.
What is south
This knot is similar to a square knot, used to tie two lines of different thickness or rigidity.
what is a sheetsbend?
This boat(s) is/are responsible for avoiding collisions
What is all of them?
The name of the white fibreglass motorboat that Blake’s group uses
What is the Sundance?
The type of cleat that holds the outhaul on a 420
What is a clam cleat?
This is the part of the river with the fastest current
What is the channel (deepest part)
This is the type of knot that is used to tie the halyard on to the top boom on a sunfish.
What is a rolling hitch?
The name of the red and green lights on a motorboat
What are nav lights? (Navigation lights)
The name of the person who fixes our boats when we break them
Who is Stan?
The shroud on the front of the 420 that connects to the bow
What is the forestay
The name of the stronger south breeze that often blows in the hot summer afternoons
What is sea breeze?