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Ballast
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Weight below decks that keeps the boat upright.
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Even keel, английский
- When a boat is floats evenly to its waterline, well balanced.
- When the draft of a ship fore and aft are the same.
- When a ship is so trimmed as to sit evenly upon the water, drawing the same depth forward as aft. some vessels sail best when brought by the head, others by the stern.
- Floating on the designated waterline so that draft is the same both fore and aft. is not influenced by heel, which is a sideways list.
- To be floating evenly without listing to either side.
Breakers, английский
- Waves breaking over rocks or shoals. a wave that approaches shallow water, causing the wave height to exceed the depth of the water it is in, causing a cresting wave with water tumbling down the front of it.
- Small barrels for containing water or other liquids; they are also used in watering the ship as gang-casks. (see bareka.) also, those billows which break violently over reefs, rocks, or shallows, lying immediately at, or under, the surface of the sea. they are distinguished both by their appearance and sound, as they cover that part of the sea with a perpetual foam, and produce loud roaring, very different from what the waves usually have over a deeper bottom. also, a name given to those rocks which occasion the waves to break over them.—breakers ahead! the common pass-word to warn the officer of broken water in the direction of the course. (see also ship-breaker.)
- A wave that approaches shallow water, causing the wave height to exceed the depth of the water it is in, in effect tripping it. the wave changes from a smooth surge in the water to a cresting wave with water tumbling down the front of it.
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