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| Distress Signals | Any signal that is used to indicate that a vessel is in distress and needs help. Flares, smoke, audible alarms, EPIRB, electronic beacons and others are all types of distress signals. |
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| Ditty Bag | A small bag for carrying or stowing all personal articles. |
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| Ditty Box | A small wooden box, with lock and key, in which seamen keep sentimental valuables, stationery, and sundry small stores. |
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| Diurnal | Daily; occurring once a day. |
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| Dividers | A navigational tool used to measure distances on a chart. |
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| Dock | Atracar
The area a boat rests in when attached to a pier or wharf; also the act of taking the boat to the pier to secure it |
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| Dock Line | Cabo de Amarre |
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| Dodger | Screen of cloth or other material to give the crew protection against the weather, wind and water spray. |
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| Dog | Heavy latch by which doors, hatches, portholes, etc., are secured; verb - to latch |
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| Dog Watch | see Watch |
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| Dog's Breakfast | An old salt I know uses this term in reference to a "tangled mess of lines". |
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| Doghouse | The short deckhouse or main hatchway which is raised above the level of the cabin top or coachroof. |
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| Doldrums | The area of calm which lies inside the trade winds near the equator. |
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| Dolphin | A mooring buoy or spar. A group of piles driven close together and bound with wire cables into a single structure. |
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| Dolphin Striker | A short spar under the cap of the bowsprit used for holding down a jib boom. |
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