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Boxhauling
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
Is an evolution by which a ship is veered sharp round on her heel, when the object is to avoid making a great sweep. the helm is put a-lee, the head-yards braced flat aback, the after-yards squared, the driver taken in, and the head-sheets hauled to windward; when she begins to gather stern-way the helm is shifted and sails trimmed. it is only resorted to in emergencies, as a seaman never likes to see his ship have stern-way. with much wind and sea this evolution would be dangerous.
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Boxing off, английский
Is performed by hauling the head-sheets to windward, and laying the head-yards flat aback, to pay the ship`s head out of the wind, when the action of the helm alone is not sufficient for that purpose; as when she is got “in irons.”
Boxes of the pumps, английский
Each ordinary pump has an upper and lower box, the one a fixture in the lower part of its chamber, the other attached to the end of the spear or
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