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Nautical Terms by Name
Below you will find Nautical Terms by Name. For your convenience the list is provided in alphabetical order.
- Aback
- Abaft
- Abaft The Beam
- Abeam
- Abel Brown
- Above Board
- Abreast
- Act Of Pardon / Act Of Grace
- Admiralty Law
- Advance Note
- Aft
- Aft, After
- Aground
- Ahoy
- Amas
- Amidships
- Anchor
- Anchor Chain
- Anchor Light
- Anchor Locker
- Anchor Roller
- Anchor Windlass
- Anchorage
- As The Crow Flies
- Astern
- Autopilot
- Auxiliary
- Avast
- Aweigh
- Azimuth Compass
- Back And Fill
- Backstay
- Backstays
- Backwinded
- Ballast
- Bar
- Beam
- Beam Reach
- Bear
- Bear Down
- Bearing
- Beat
- Beating
- Before The Mast
- Belaying Pins
- Below
- Berth
- Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
- Bilge
- Bilge Pump
- Bilged On Her Anchor
- Bimini
- Binnacle
- Binnacle List
- Bitt
- Bitter End
- Block
- Bloody
- Blue Peter
- Boatswain Or Bosun
- Bobstay
- Bollard
- Bonded Jacky
- Booby Hatch
- Boom
- Boom Vang
- Boomkin
- Booms
- Bosun
- Bosun's Chair
- Bosun's Locker
- Bow
- Bow-sprit
- Bowline
- Bowse
- Bowsprit
- Brail
- Brake
- Brass Monkeys
- Breakers
- Breaking Seas
- Breakwater
- Bridge
- Bring To
- Broaching-to
- Buffer
- Bull Of Barney
- Bulwarks
- Bumboat
- Bumpkin
- Bunk
- Buntline
- Buoy
- Buoyed Up
- By And Large
- By The Board
- Cabin
- Cable
- Canvas
- Cape Horn Fever
- Capsize
- Capstan
- Captain
- Careen
- Cast Off
- Cat
- Cat Head
- Cat O' Nine Tails
- Catamaran
- Caulking
- Celestial Navigation
- Centerboard
- Centreboard
- Chain Shot
- Chart
- Chase Guns
- Chine
- Chock-a-block
- Clean Bill Of Health
- Clean Slate
- Cleat
- Clew-lines
- Close-hauled
- Coaming
- Cockpit
- Coordinated Universal Time
- Course
- Courses
- Coxswain Or Cockswain
- Cqr Anchor
- Crew
- Crow's Nest
- Cruising Guides
- Cunt Splice
- Cut And Run
- Cut Of His Jib
- Cutter
- Cyclone
- Daggerboard
- Deck
- Depth Sounder
- Devil Seam
- Devil To Pay(and No Pitch Hot)
- Dinghy, Dink
- Distress Signals
- Dock
- Dodger
- Dogwatch
- Draft
- Dragging
- Draught
- Dressing Down
- Driver
- Dry Dock
- Earrings
- Embayed
- EPIRB
- Equator
- Fathom
- Fcc Rules
- Fender
- Fetch
- Fiberglass
- Fiddle
- Fin Keel
- Fireship
- First Rate
- Fish
- Flare
- Flotsam
- Fluke
- Fly By Night
- Foil
- Foot
- Footloose
- Fore, Forward
- Fore-and-aft
- Foremast
- Foremast Jack
- Forepeak
- Foresail
- Forestay
- Forestays
- Forestaysail
- Foretopmast
- Foul
- Founder
- Full Keel
- Furl
- Gaff
- Gale
- Gale Force Winds
- Galley
- Gallows
- Garbled
- Genoa
- Global Positioning System
- GMT
- GPS
- Grapeshot
- Great Circle
- Green Water
- Greenwich Mean Time
- Grog
- Groggy
- Grommet
- Ground Swells
- Ground Tackle
- Gudgeon
- Gunnel, Gunwale
- Gunwhale
- Gybe
- Gypsy
- Halyard
- Halyard Or Halliard
- Harbor
- Harbormaster
- Hatch
- Haul
- Haul Wind
- Head
- Head Seas
- Heading
- Headsail
- Headstay
- Heave
- Heave Down
- Heave To
- Heaving Line
- Heaving To
- Heavy Seas
- Heavy Weather
- Heel, Heeling
- Helm
- Helmsman
- High Tide
- Hitch
- Holding Ground
- Holding Tank
- Holystone
- Horse
- Horseshoe Buoy
- Hounds
- Hull
- Hull Speed
- Hurricane
- Hydrodynamic
- Hydrofoil
- ICW
- In The Offing
- Inmarsat-c
- Intertropical Convergence Zone
- Intracoastal Waterway
- Inverter
- Iron Sail
- ITCZ
- Jack
- Jetty
- Jib
- Jib Netting
- Jib Sheet
- Jib Stay
- Jib Topsail
- Jibe
- Kedging
- Keel
- Ketch
- Killick
- Knot
- Know The Ropes
- Lanyard
- Larboard
- Large
- Lash
- Latitude
- Lazarette
- Lazy Jack
- Lazy Sheet
- League
- Lee
- Lee Shore
- Lee Side
- Leeboard
- Leeward
- Leeway
- Let Go And Haul
- Let The Cat Out Of The Bag
- Letter Of Marque And Reprisal
- Life Boat
- Life Jacket, Life Preserver, Life Vest
- Life Raft
- Lifeline
- Light
- Lighthouse
- Lightweight Anchor
- Line
- Liner
- List
- Loa
- Loaded To The Gunwhales
- Lock
- Locker
- Log
- Logbook
- Loggerhead
- Longitude
- LORAN
- Low Tide
- Luff
- Main Mast
- Main Sheet
- Main Topsail
- Mainmast (or Main)
- Mainsail
- Mainsheet
- Make Fast
- Marina
- Mast
- Master
- Master-at-Arms
- Masthead
- Mate
- Mayday
- Meridian
- Midshipman
- Mizzen Mast
- Mizzen Sail
- Mizzen Staysail
- Mizzenmast (or Mizzen)
- Monohull
- Moor
- Mooring
- Mooring Buoy
- Mooring Line
- Morse Code
- Motor
- Motor Sailer
- Mount
- Multihull
- Mushroom Anchor
- Nautical
- Nautical Mile
- Navigation
- Navigator
- Nipper
- No Room To Swing A Cat
- Off The Wind
- Offshore
- Offshore Wind
- Open
- Out Of Trim
- Outboard
- Outboard Engine
- Outhaul
- Outrigger
- Over The Barrel
- Overbear
- Overboard
- Overhaul
- Overreach
- Overwhelmed
- Ox-Eye
- Painted Waterline
- Painter
- Pan Pan
- Parallel
- Parrel
- Part Brass Rags
- Passage
- Pay
- Personal Floatation Device, Pfd
- Pier
- Pile, Piling
- Pilot
- Pilot Berth
- Piloting
- Pinch
- Pipe Down
- Pitch
- Plot
- Plow Anchor
- Point
- Point Of Sail
- Poop Deck
- Pooped
- Port
- Port (nautical)
- Port Tack
- Porthole
- Pound
- Pram
- Press Gang
- Prevailing Winds
- Preventer
- Prime Meridian
- Privateer
- Prop
- Propeller
- Propeller Shaft
- Prow
- Quarter
- Quay
- Radar
- Radio
- Radio Beacon
- Raft
- Rail
- Rake
- Reach
- Reef
- Reef Points
- Reef-bands
- Reef-tackles
- Reefing Lines
- Refit
- Rhumb Line
- Ride Out
- Riding Sail
- Rig
- Rigging
- Right
- Rigid Inflatable
- Roaring Forties
- Rode
- Roll
- Roller Furling
- Roller Reefing
- Rolling-tackle
- Rope
- Row
- Rowboat
- Royal Mast
- Rub Rail, Rub Strake, Rub Guard
- Rudder
- Rudder Post
- Rummage Sale
- Run Aground
- Runner
- Running
- Running Backstay
- Running Bowline
- Running Lights
- Running Rigging
- Safety Harness
- Sail
- Sail Shape
- Sail Trim
- Sail-plan
- Sailboat
- Sailcloth
- Sampson Post
- Sand Bar
- Satellite Navigation
- Scale
- Schooner
- Scope
- Screw
- Scud
- Scudding
- Scull
- Scupper
- Scuppers
- Scuttle
- Scuttlebutt
- Sea
- Sea Anchor
- Sea Buoy
- Sea Level
- Seagoing
- Seamanship
- Secure
- Securite
- Seizing
- Set
- Settee
- Severe Tropical Cyclone
- Sextant
- Shackle
- Shake Out
- Shakes
- Shank
- She
- Shear Pin
- Sheathing
- Sheave
- Sheer
- Sheet
- Ship
- Shipshape
- Shoal
- Shore
- Shoreline
- Shove Off
- Shroud
- Side Lights
- Sideslip
- Signal Halyard
- Single Sideband
- Sink
- Skeg
- Skiff
- Skin
- Skipper
- Skysail
- Skyscraper
- Slack
- Slide
- Sling
- Slip
- Sloop
- Slot
- Slush
- Slush Fund
- Small World
- Snap Hook
- Snatch Block
- Snub
- Snubber
- Sole
- Son Of A Gun
- Sound
- Sounding
- Spar
- Spinnaker
- Spinnaker Halyard
- Spinnaker Pole
- Spinnaker Pole Lift
- Spitfire
- Spreaders
- Spring Lines
- Squall
- Square Meal
- Square Rigged
- Square Sail
- SSB
- Stability
- Stability Sail
- Staff
- Stall
- Stanchion
- Standing Rigging
- Starboard
- Starboard Tack
- Statute Mile
- Stay
- Staysail
- Steering Oar Or Steering Board
- Stem
- Step
- Stepped
- Stern
- Stern Light
- Stern Line
- Stiff
- Stink Pot
- Stock
- Stopper
- Stores
- Storm Jib
- Storm Sail
- Storm Trysail
- Stow
- Studding-sails
- Surf
- Swab
- Swallow
- Swamp
- Swell
- Swinging The Compass
- Tabernacle
- Tack
- Tacking
- Tackle
- Tail
- Take In
- Taken Aback
- Taking The Wind Out Of His Sails
- Tally
- Telltale
- Tender
- Three Sheets To The Wind
- Tidal Current
- Tide
- Tiller
- Timoneer
- Toe Rail
- Toe The Line Or Toe The Mark
- Top Heavy
- Topgallant
- Topmast
- Topsail
- Topsail Schooner
- Topsides
- Touch And Go
- Tow
- Towing
- Towing Light
- Trade Wind
- Trailing Edge
- Transit
- Transom
- Traveler
- Travellers
- Trick
- Trim
- Trimaran
- Trip Line
- Tropical Cyclone
- Trysail
- Tugboat
- Turnbuckle
- Typhoon
- Under The Weather
- Underway
- Unfurl
- Upper-lower
- Upwind
- V-stow
- Veer
- VHF
- Vicarious Stowaway
- Wake
- Wales
- Watch
- Waterline
- Waterlogged
- Waterway
- Way
- Weather Side
- Weatherly
- Weigh
- Wells
- Wharf
- Wheel
- Whisker Pole
- Wide Berth
- Winch
- Windage
- Windbound
- Windbugger
- Windlass
- Windvane
- Windward
- Working Sails
- Working Sheet
- Yacht
- Yard
- Yard Arm
- Yaw
- Yawl
- Zephyr
- Zulu
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