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| FCC RULES |
Federal Communications Commission rules
and regulations governing radio equipment and operation in the United States
and its coastal waters. |
| FAIR WIND |
Wind coming over the beam,
quarters or stern, abaft of the beam |
| FAIR LEAD |
Deck hardware, usually with
an eye used to lead line |
| FAIRWAY |
The "lanes" used for passageway
in a harbor, the channel way |
| FAST |
To secure, tie off, cleat,
knot or fasten |
| FATHOM |
Six feet of depth |
| FENDER |
Protective devices placed
alongside the freeboard to protect the hull. Old tires, sponges,
rolled nets, hawsers were all called defenders, thus "fender" |
| FETCH |
1) Making a mark or location when sailing to windward without
tacking
2) The distance wind and waves can travel toward land without being
blocked. |
| FIBERGLASS |
A construction medium using layers of
woven glass mats that are bonded together with glue (epoxy). |
| FIGURE EIGHT
KNOT |
A knot made in the end of
a line to prevent its backing through a block  |
| FIN KEEL |
A keel that is narrower and deeper
than a full keel |
| FISHERMAN'S BEND |
A knot used to fasten a cable
to the anchor |
| FIX |
The charted position of a
boat made by taking two or more bearings on known landmarks |
| FLAKE |
1) A complete loop in coiling
down a line so that it can run free
2) To fold the sail
in layers on the boom |
| FLARE |
1)safety
equipment-an unsteady glaring light produced by an incendiary device
2) the rise of a boat hull that "flares" out from the water line to
the deck, usually at the bow |
| FLATTEN IN |
To trim the sheets in |
| FLAW |
A gust stronger than the prevailing
wind |
| FLOOD |
The time when the flow of
the tide is toward the land |
| FLOTSAM |
Debris floating on the water
surface. |
| FLUKE |
1) The broad flat parts of an
anchor that are designed to grab and hold in the bottom
2) The fin on a whale |
| FLY |
The wind direction indicator
on the masthead |
| FOIL |
A winglike surface below the hull
that, when moving through water,
lifts the hull out of the water (plane-ing) allowing greater speeds |
| FOOT |
The bottom edge of a sail |
| FORE |
The part of a boat or things
forward of amidships |
| FORE AND AFT |
Following the line of the
keel, from bow to stern |
| FORECASTLE |
The crew quarters on a traditional
sailing ship forward of the main mast |
| FOREDECK |
The deck area forward of the mast, to
work foredeck is to change the headsail or tack or jibe the spinnaker |
| FOREFOOT |
The point where the stem joins
the keel |
| FOREMAST |
The mast nearest the bow |
| FOREPEAK |
The compartment at the bow
of the vessel |
| FOREREACH |
The headway a vessel makes
when luffed in the wind |
| FORESAIL |
The sail set from the foremast
on a schooner |
| FORESTAY |
Also known as the headstay, a line
running from the bow of the boat to the upper part of the mast, designed to
pull the mast forward. A forestay that attaches slightly below the top of the
mast can be used to help control the rake of the mast. |
| FORWARD |
Towards the bow |
| FORWARD OFF THE BEAM |
Any
direction less than 90 degrees off the bow |
| FOUL |
1) To be tangled (line) or
in turmoil (air)
2) In racing, a rules infraction |
| FREE |
1) To sail with the wind from
the quarters of stern
2) In racing, when not
sailing close-hauled |
| FREEBOARD |
The
distance from the deck lip to the water |
| FULL AND BY |
The point of sail when all
sails are full and drawing and the course is close-hauled |
| FULL KEEL |
A keel that runs the length of the
boat and having a shallower draft than fin keels |
| FURL |
To lower a
sail or bring it in partially furled to reduce the amount of sail area in use without completely lowering the
sail (reefing). A self furling rig winds the sail around the stay
or into a itself. |
