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drireech
14-10-2010, 02:55 PM
Because sites like this are used by a lot of people to get their first real taste of boats and fishing, I though it would be good top start a visual library of terminology.

It should help those of us who aren’t gifted with decades of knowledge get a good idea of what people are rabbiting on about when they jump on the soapbox.

So I’ll start.

Deadrise. Keel, Chine and Reverse Chine


http://content.answcdn.com/main/content/img/McGrawHill/boating/f0085-01.png

Salad Fingers
14-10-2010, 02:56 PM
Spray rails? I thought they were planing strakes?

fat-buoy
15-10-2010, 10:44 AM
I just called them chines also... but I am far from being the expert here... :)

finga
15-10-2010, 11:51 AM
I thought spray rails were above the waterline (somewhere near where chine is written in the picture) and stopped the spray coming up when your motoring along.
A bit like this but looking into the matter a bit deeper, aka google search, the spray rail is indeed the flat portion of the chine.


http://fishwrecked.com/files/S6300821%20%28Medium%29.JPG

TheRealAndy
15-10-2010, 02:21 PM
They are planing strakes. Spray rail is as per finga's post. A chine is just an angle. in the hull. My sailing boat has soft chines, which are chines that are rounded off.

Salad Fingers
15-10-2010, 04:47 PM
What performance disadvantages are there with having such massive spray rails/extended chines such as the boat above?
Would the nose 'slap' noticably more in the chop?

wayno60
16-10-2010, 02:41 AM
As i see it they would have to keep the spray down in the chop and also help cushion the ride. ie in stead of going over a swell and having that thud that shakes ya bones it might let you down nice and gently.

finga
16-10-2010, 08:11 AM
As in see it they would have to keep the spray down in the chop and also help cushion the ride. ie in stead of going over a swell and having that thud that shakes ya bones it might let you down nice and gently.
Wouldn't they also act as a keel if they 'bit' into the side of a swell or if your wanting to turn if not designed right??
That wouldn't be a nice experience.
http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Surprise/surprised-013.GIF

oldboot
16-10-2010, 10:49 PM
Here are a few that might take some visualising.

Bumpkin
Fardage
spanker

and my favorite

Futtock....;D

cheers

wayno60
17-10-2010, 01:52 AM
Finga,
i was looking at that pic again earlier tonight and the same thought crossed my mind. At full noise it would'nt have an effect but as you say cutting thru a swell on an angle it might bite in....

finga
17-10-2010, 06:31 AM
Here are a few that might take some visualising.

Bumpkin
Fardage
spanker

and my favorite

Futtock....;D

cheers
A Bumpkin is a pumpkin that's fallen off the back of a truck. It's a pumpkin that's had a bit of a bumb

A Fardage is....well buggered if I know really but is it a term for a bandage/temporary fix for really bad cuts/amputations??
If you are lucky enough to cut yourself badly you kinda need a bandage in a hurry. You yell....F@rk, I better bandage that and NOW!!! before you bleed out so in a hurry Where's a f@rking bandage?? sounds like Fardage.

A Spanker is my mum. I should know. She did it to me often enough

A Futtock is one of my buttocks....mine just fatter then the usual....and I have a slight speech impediment.

But what do they have to do with boating??

wayno60
17-10-2010, 05:49 PM
well 3 out of 4 are nautical......

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n. One of the curved timbers that forms a rib in the frame of a ship

Web definitions for bumpkin (http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:bumpkin&sa=X&ei=hqm6TNHMIobGvQPP7cD-DQ&ved=0CAYQkAE)

http://www.google.com.au/images/icons/onebox/dictionary-40.gif yokel: a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

Fardage
Far`dage"\, n. [F. See Fardel (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Fardel).] (Naut.) See Dunnage (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Dunnage).

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A spanker is either of two kinds of sail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sail).

PinHead
17-10-2010, 05:58 PM
I know there is a pointy end and a blunt end on most boats.

oldboot
18-10-2010, 06:15 PM
A bumpkin is a pole ( jib) that extends beyond the stern of a ship, usually to tension the back edge of a sail....the term social "bumpkin" probaly derives from this because a bumpkin is always behind.

Fardarge are those boards laid on the inside of the hull to put stuff on or to walk on..........boards in the bottom of a tinny could reasonably called Fardarge.

Dunnage is marerial used to stop goods and material moving arround or to tie strange shaped goods to so it can be secured.

A spanker is a sail rigged toward the rear of the ship, possibly with the use of a Bumpkin.........possibly being one of the least important sails, was probaly the last attended to..there for likely to flap about and spank the stern of the ship

And yess a Futtock is any of the ribs of a ship..especilay ones the meet the keel.

The futtock and the fardage, most of us would have in our boats.

As for the extended chines, or eyebrows are generaly fitted to older style hulls known to be " wet"......typicaly bows that are convex in the bow skins...... newer design boats tend to turn the spray back downward by the shape of the bow.

the convex bows tend to push the spray higher as the bow plunges deeper due to the deadrise in the bow increasing as it nears the chine near the bow.

This is possibly one of the significant steps forward in hull design......check it out watching other boats and how the water comes off the bow as it travels.

cheers

TheRealAndy
18-10-2010, 06:29 PM
best anti spray device I have seen is the chine that travels right upto the bow on the boston whalers.

If you want some old nautical terms let me know. I am a huge fan of old wooden boat building and I love traditional timber boats of all types, steam, petrol, deisel sail...

Noelm
19-10-2010, 01:24 PM
old boat terminology is sure a funny thing, my father was an old wooden boat guy, and as a young tacker I worked on the weekends for a boat builder, and some of the things they spoke about left me bewildered at times, but I soon cottoned on to their language, a futtock is also a kind of brace for the bottom of a mast, usually a steel ring was fitted and "futtocks" ran off this, and it is a rib, I seem to remember it being some sort of join in a rib, but I may be wrong, what about a "keelson" and "steeler" planks, rove head nails, and the other often misquoted item, the "sponson" then there was "planked heel" instead of a "deadwood" words almost lost these days, more the pity.

drireech
20-10-2010, 12:57 PM
old boat terminology is sure a funny thing, my father was an old wooden boat guy, and as a young tacker I worked on the weekends for a boat builder, and some of the things they spoke about left me bewildered at times, but I soon cottoned on to their language, a futtock is also a kind of brace for the bottom of a mast, usually a steel ring was fitted and "futtocks" ran off this, and it is a rib, I seem to remember it being some sort of join in a rib, but I may be wrong, what about a "keelson" and "steeler" planks, rove head nails, and the other often misquoted item, the "sponson" then there was "planked heel" instead of a "deadwood" words almost lost these days, more the pity.

Thanks Noelm, now if you can just find some diagrams to show us what each of these terms mean?

Noelm
20-10-2010, 01:01 PM
I could maybe explain them all, some are pretty simple, some are a tad tricky to explain, there is 1,000's of boat/boat building specific terms.