Boat Parts
This pole holds the bottom of the mainsail.
What is the boom?
This term is used to refer to the front of the boat.
What is the bow?
You are standing on the dock at Downtown Boathouse and looking south at Stuy. You feel the wind blowing from right to left across your face. What is the approximate wind direction?
West.
This is an imaginary line between two flags or buoys that boats have to stay behind before a race begins.
What is a start line?
What is the only active ISSA (Interscholastic Sailing Association) team in New York City?
StuySails!
This rope controls the angle of the sail.
What is the mainsheet?
This term is used to refer to the back of the boat.
What is the stern?
Darker and more textured water usually indicates this.
What is an area with stronger wind?
This is a name for buoys used in a race course.
What is a mark?
This professional sailing competition is held in cities across the world and is coming to NYC in May.
What is SailGP?
This part goes into the water and helps the boat change direction.
What is a rudder?
(tiller is not a correct answer!)
These terms are used to indicate left and right in sailing.
You cannot sail in this direction.
What is "directly into the wind"?
A type of boat used in high school racing and a smaller version of a type of boat used in the Olympics.
What is a 420?
What noise used to be considered bad luck on a ship?
Whistling
This line raises and lowers the sails.
What is a halyard?
This term is used to refer to the cart used to move small boats around.
What is a dolly?
This is a sudden strong increase in wind speed.
What is a gust?
This is the first buoy that you go around in a race.
What is an upwind/windward mark?
Who is often credited as the first person to sail around the world?
This part is used to adjust the height of the boom, tightens the edge of the sail (the "leech") and can be tightened to allow the boat to point farther upwind.
What is the vang?
An object farther from the wind than another object.
Which object is leeward?
This unit is used by many sailors instead of miles per hour.
What are knots?
When was sailing introduced into the Olympics? (if you get within 3 years you get this right)
1896 (which was the first modern olympics!)