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| Term | Definition |
| Beneaped | A situation where a vessel has gone aground at the top of the spring tides and has to wait for up to a fortnight (during which the neap tides occur) for the next tide high enough to float her off. Vessels beneaped at around the time of the equinoxes when the highest spring tides occur may have to wait up to 6 months to get off. |
| Bent on a Splice | Sailor's term for being about to get married, a splice being used to join two ropes together. |
| Bergy Bits | Pieces of ice, about the size of a small house, that have broken off a glacier. |
| Bermuda Rig | A sail plan in which the main and/or mizzen, or the foresail of a schooner, is of triangular shape, very long in the luff and set from a tall mast. This is almost now universal in all sailing yachts. |
| Berth | (1) A place for a person to sleep. (2) A place where the ship can tie up or anchor. (3) A position of employment aboard a ship (4) A safe and cautious distance from which another vessel or object is passed, as in "giving wide berth" |
| Beset | Said of a vessel when she is entirely surrounded by ice. |
| Best Bower | Term used in the days of sail to indicate the starboard of the two anchors carried at the bow of a ship. The anchor on the port side was known as the small bower (although they were the same size). |
| Between Decks | The space between any decks. |
| Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | see Devil |
| Betwixt Wind and Water | On or near the line of immersion of a ship's hull. |