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| Sailing Ice | Small masses of drift ice with waterways in which a vessel can sail. |
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| Sailing Rig | The equipment used to sail a boat, including sails, booms and gaffs, lines and blocks, etc. |
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| Sailor | Man or boy employed in sailing deep-water craft. Word is sometimes loosely used to include men who go to sea. Used officially to denote a seaman serving on deck. |
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| Sallying | Rolling a vessel, that is slightly ice-bound, so as to break the surface ice around her. May sometimes be done when a vessel is lightly aground, but not ice-bound. Can be accomplished by having most of the crew run side-to-side. |
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| Salon | Also saloon; the main social cabin of a boat |
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| Salvage | Recovery and reclamation of damaged, discarded or abandoned material, ships, craft and floating equipment for reuse, repair, re-fabrication or scrapping. Also the property which has been recovered from a wrecked vessel, or the recovery of the vessel herself. |
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| Sampson Post | A strong vertical post used to attach lines for towing or mooring. |
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| Sargasso Sea | An area of the North Atlantic east of the Bahamas where a powerful eddy in the water causes Sargasso weed to collect in vast quantities and float on the surface. |
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| Scandalize | A method of reducing sail in a fore-and-aft rig by hauling up the tack and lowering the peak of a sail. It was used by older sailing trawlers to reduce speed through the water while operating a trawl. Also the yards in a square-rigged ship are said to be scandalized when they are not set square to the masts after the ship has anchored. Scandalizing the yards of a ship was a sign of mourning for a death on board. |
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| Scantlings | The dimensions of all parts which go into the construction of a ship's hull. |
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| Scarf or Scarph | The joining of two timbers by beveling the edges so the same thickness is maintained throughout the length of the joint. |
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| Schooner | A fore-and-aft rigged sailboat with two or more masts. The aft mast is the same size or larger than the forward ones. |
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| Scope | The ratio of the length of an anchor line, from a vessel's bow to the anchor, to the depth of the water. |
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| Scow | A boat with a flat bottom and square ends. |
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| Screw | A boat's propeller. |
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