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| Separation Zone | A region drawn on a chart to separate two lanes that have shipping vessels moving in opposite directions. |
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| Serve | To wind small line around a rope to protect it. Rope is wormed, parcelled and served to protect it from water which could rot it, or from chafing |
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| Serving Mallet | A mallet used for passing serving around a line. |
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| Set | (1) To raise a sail. (2) A term applied to sails in relation to their angle with the wind; e.g., the set of the jib. (3) The direction the current is flowing (4) Movement of a ship, due to current or tide, not necessarily in the direction in which the ship is heading. (5) A ship sets sail when she departs on a voyage, whether sails are used or not. (6) An anchor is set when it has gripped the bottom and holds without dragging. |
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| Sewed | Said of a vessel when water level has fallen from the level at which she would float, so she would be aground and need to wait for the next tide before re-floating. Also said of the water that has receded and caused a vessel to go aground. |
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| Sextant | A navigational instrument used to measure the altitude of celestial bodies |
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| Shackle | A U-shaped fitting closed with a pin across the open ends, the pin sometimes being threaded at one end and sometimes held in place with a cotter pin, and used to secure sails to lines or fittings, lines to fittings, fittings to fittings, anchors to chain, etc. |
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| Shaft | A cylinder used to carry rotating machine parts, such as pulleys and gears, to transmit power or motion; such as a propeller shaft. |
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| Shaft Alley | The narrow compartment ending at the place where the shafts go through the packing glands at the skin of the vessel. |
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| Shaft Log | A heavy longitudinal timber placed over the keel in a ship's stern through which the propeller shaft passes. |
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| Shaft Strut | A term applied to a bracket supporting the after end of the propeller shaft and the propeller. |
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| Shake | (1) A longitudinal crack in a mast or other spar. (2) The shivers of a sail when sailing too close to the wind. (3) As a verb, to let it out. |
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| Shake Out | To remove a reef from a sail and hoist the sail aloft |
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| Shallop | (1) Small boat for one or two rowers. (2) Small fishing vessel with foresail, boom mainsail, and mizzen trysail. |
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| Shank | The main shaft of an anchor which connects the arms to the anchor ring. |
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