Word List Sailing 179 words

Sailing Vocabulary Word List (179)

• A

  abeam, aboard, account, activity, Admiralty Law, adrift, afloat, aft, aground, ahoy, alee, aloft, amateurs, America's Cup, anchor, anemometer, angle, argosy, auxiliary, avoid

• B

  bail, ballast, batten, beached, bearing, becalmed, belay, berth, boat, boom, bowsprit, boys, brine, bulkhead, buoy, burgee

• C

  calculation, capsize, captain, celestial, centerboard, certification, championship, children, clew, clubs, coast, Coast Guard, cockpit, compass, competition, crew, current

• D

  danger, deck, depth, drift

• E

  effort, enjoyment, equipment, experience

• F

  fathoms, fittings, flag, flotation, flotsam, forestay, forward

• G

  gaff, galley, gimball, girls, gybing

• H

  halyard, harbor, harbor master, hard alee, harness, headway, heavy weather

• I

  identification

• J

  jetty, jib, jute

• K

  keel, ketch, knots, knowledge

• L

  latitude, launch, league, leak, lighthouse, longitude, lose, loss, luff

• M

  marine, mast, mate, men, meticulous, mizzen, mooring

• N

  nautical, naval, navigation

• O

  ocean, oilskins, option, overboard

• P

  pennant, pilot, pleasure, prevention, professionals, propel, propulsion, protection, pulpit

• Q

  quadrant, qualification, quay

• R

  race, radar, reach, recreation, regatta, registration, regulation, restful, rigging, rudder

• S

  safety, sailor, sails, schooner, sea, seafaring, seaworthy, shipshape, shrouds, signal, skills, sloop, SOS, speed, spinnaker, starboard, stern, strategy, surf, swell, systems

• T

  tack, teams, tell, tide, trim, types

• U

• V

  vertical, vessel, visibility

• W

  water, waves, weekend, wharf, whitecap, win, winch, wind, wind vane, women

• X

• Y

  yacht, yard, youth

• Z

  zephyr, zone