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| Bluewater Sailing | Open ocean sailing |
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| Bo'suns Call, Pipe, or Whistle | Once the only method, other than human voice, of passing orders to men on board ship; the instructions to perform certain tasks were conveyed by different notes and pitches on the high-pitched whistle. |
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| Board | To go onboard, to go into a ship. |
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| Boarding Party | Designated members of ship's company formed into a military unit that will go aboard another vessel. |
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| Boat | A fairly indefinite term. A waterborne vehicle smaller than a ship. One definition is a small craft carried aboard a ship. |
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| Boat Hook | A long sturdy pole fitted with a blunt hook at one end designed to catch a line when coming alongside a pier or mooring, to facilitate putting a line over a piling, recovering an object dropped overboard, or in pushing or fending off. |
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| Boat Speed | Speed through the water, not "over ground". |
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| Boatswain | Also bosun, bos'n, bo's'n, and bo'sun, all of which are pronounced bosun. The highest unlicensed rating in the deck department who has immediate charge of all deck hands, oversees deck crew, maintenance and upkeep of the ship except for the engine room and galley areas |
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| Bobstay | A stay from the stem of a boat to the end of the bowsprit used to counteract the upward pull of the forestay. |
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| Boilers | Steam generating units used aboard ship to provide steam for propulsion and for heating and other auxiliary purposes. |
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| Bollard | A large solid post on a wharf or pier for securing mooring lines; the same when constructed on the deck of a ship. |
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| Bolster | A piece of wood fitted in various places to act as a preventative to chafe. |
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| Bolt Rope | A rope sewn into the luff or foot of a sail for use in attaching to the mast or boom. |
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| Bonaventure | On older sailing ships, an additional lateen shaped mizzen sail carried on the fourth mast, known as a bonaventure mizzen. |
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| Bone | Foam or spray which is thrown out under the bow of a ship when she is under way. If fast moving with a lot of spray being thrown out, the vessel is said to have "A bone in her teeth". |
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