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| Pillar | Any steel bar or column, fitted vertically, to support a deck, or any part of a ship's structure. Also called a stanchion. |
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| Pillow | Block of timber mounted on the deck just inside the bow on which the inner end of the bowsprit was supported. |
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| Pilot | An individual with specific knowledge of a harbor, canal, river or other waterway, qualified to guide vessels through the region. Some areas require that boats and ships be piloted by a licensed pilot. |
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| Pilotage | The act carried out by a pilot of assisting the master of a ship in navigation when entering or leaving a port. Sometimes used to define the fee payable for the services of a pilot. Also, the act of navigating a vessel coastwise when land is near and the water is relatively shallow. |
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| Pilothouse | A compartment on or near the bridge of a ship that contains the steering wheel and other controls, compass, charts, navigating equipment and means of communicating with the engine room and other parts of the ship. Also known as wheelhouse |
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| Piloting | Navigation by using visible references, the depth of the water, etc. |
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| Pin End | In sailboat racing, the mark or buoy that signifies one side of the starting line, opposite of the race committee boat. |
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| Pin Rail | A rail fastened along the inside of the bulwarks of a vessel and pierced to hold belaying pins |
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| Pinch | To sail too close to the wind so that the sails start to luff. |
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| Pinching | Sailing too close to the wind |
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| Pinnace | Formerly, a small, two-masted sailing vessel sometimes with oars. |
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| Pintle | A tapered metal pin which fastens the rudder to the stern by dropping into gudgeons. |
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| Pipe | Another name for the bo'sun's whistle. |
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| Pipe Down | A call on the bo'sun's pipe at night for the hands to turn in, for silence in the messdecks, and for lights to be extinguished. Also a term used by a sailor to another to make them stop talking. |
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| Piracy | The act of taking a ship on the high seas from those lawfully entitled to it. |
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