The Adlard Coles Book of Boatwords by Desoutter Denny;

Author:Desoutter, Denny;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
ISBN: 1220321
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Lines diagram

Link shackle A shackle in the form of a ‘C’, whose opening is closed by a screw nut.

List, to See to Heel.

Lizard A short length of rope with a hard eye spliced into one end. The other end can be hitched to another rope or chain, and by passing a further rope through the eye you can get the purchase of a single whip for a good heave. It may also prove useful as a temporary Fairlead.

Lloyd’s Register of Yachts A useful ‘Who’s Who’ of private pleasure craft, their builders and their owners, which was published annually in Britain until 1980. ‘Classified by Lloyd’s’ means that the boat has been built under the supervision of a Lloyd’s surveyor and that she has been kept up to standard by periodic surveys and appropriate remedial work.

LOA Length Over All. (See Length.)

Lock-off A device which holds a rope by bearing down on it with a cam and lever. Also called a ‘Stopper’ or ‘Clutch’.

Loft Noun and verb, closely related. The large flat floor of a loft was a good place to draw the outline of a sail or the frames of a hull in chalk. The process of laying out and drawing at full scale thus became ‘lofting’, no matter whether it was done in the basement or on sheets of hardboard in the back garden.

Log 1 Short for logbook, in which all necessary navigational information and ship’s progress is recorded. Was originally a ‘log-board’, taking the form of two black-painted boards hinged together to open like a book, on which the readings of the log (2) could be written in chalk.

2 Short for log-chip (or log-ship), a fan-shaped wedge of wood, weighted to float upright, which was streamed astern on a line of known length so that the ship’s speed could be determined from the time taken for the line to run out. About 100 years ago the Patent log began to come into use, streaming a spinner at the end of a plaited line which rotates the mechanism in the recorder on board, showing distance run, which is far more valuable than speed. Rarely used today.

Long in the jaw A rope which is old and well stretched becomes long in the jaw, the ‘jaw’ being the length occupied by a strand in making one full turn.

Long splice See Splice for both the long and short splice, as well as others.

Longitude The position of any point on the Earth’s surface measured as an angle east or west of the Greenwich meridian, which is also known as the ‘prime meridian’ and is zero longitude. (See Latitude.)

Longitudinal Any fore-and-aft structural member of a boat’s hull.

Loom 1 The reflection on the clouds of a light which is too distant to be seen directly because it is below the horizon. Occasionally the loom of a distant light is clear enough to reveal its characteristic, and so offers a useful navigational aid. Also the hazy appearance of land through mist.

2 That part of an oar’s shaft which the oarsman grips – the opposite end to the Blade.

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