Point of Sail
Your sail does this when you are pointing the boat into the non-sailable zone.
What is luff?
The top corner of the sail
What is the head?
The sailing name for the left side of the boat
What is port?
The tack your boat is on when the windward side is the port side.
What is port tack?
The right of way boat when a sailboat and a motorboat meet.
What is a sailboat?
The angle you are sailing when your boat is close-hauled.
What is 45 degrees?
The bottom side of the sail is called this.
What is the foot?
The side of the boat that the wind always puts the sails on.
What is leeward?
You are doing this when you turn your boat so that the bow swings through the non-sailable zone.
What is tacking?
Name something you can do if your boat has to keep clear of another boat.
What is tack/turn/slow down?
The course you are sailing when you are 90 degrees from the wind.
What is beam reach?
The corner of the sail closest to the gooseneck.
What is the tack?
The sailing name for the right side of the boat.
What is starboard?
This is your windward side when you are on starboard tack.
What is a starboard?
These mark the channels so that sailors know where it is safe to sail
What are channel markers?
The point of sail you should be steering to retrieve a "man overboard."
What is a beam reach/close reach?
The corner of the sail that is at the end of the boom.
What is the clew?
The side of the boat that the skipper should always be sitting on, facing the sail.
What is windward?
The safer maneuver between a tack and a jibe.
What is a tack?
Odd numbers are found on this color of channel markers.
What is green?
The point of sail you are on when you are sailing a course 180 from where the wind is blowing.
What is a run/downwind?
The side of the sail that the wind passes across first.
What is the luff?
The side of the boat that the sail is on when rigging a sunfish
What is port?
The boat that has right of way when a port tack boat and a starboard tack meet.
What is starboard?
The boat that has right of way when a windward boat on port tack and a leeward boat on port tack are sailing towards each other.
What is leeward?