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| Storm Bound | Confined to an anchorage or haven through being unable to proceed because of stormy weather. |
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| Storm Trysail | A very strong sail used in stormy weather. It is loose footed, being attached to the mast, but not the boom. This helps prevent boarding waves from damaging the sail or the rigging. |
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| Stow | To pack or store away; especially, to pack in an orderly, compact, safe manner. |
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| Stowage | The placing of goods in a ship in such a way as to ensure the safety and stability of the ship not only on a sea or ocean passage but also in between ports when parts of the cargo have been loaded or discharged. |
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| Stowaway | Illegal passenger who hides himself on board a ship in order to gain free passage or to escape from a country. |
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| Strainer | Filtering device used to remove the solid debris from the cooling water. |
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| Strake | On wooden boats, a line of planking running from the bow to the stern along the hull. |
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| Strand | (1) A number of fibers twisted together ready to be laid up into a rope with other strands. (2) A vessel is stranded when she is driven ashore or onto a shoal by the force of the weather. |
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| Stretch Off the Land | Old sailing ship term for taking a nap. |
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| Strike | To lower, as in "Strike the sails", or "Strike the colors". |
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| Strike Down | On a square-rigged ship, the act of lowering a spar or yard to the deck. |
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| Stringer | A longitudinal stiffener for the side of a ship, made of angle bar, bulb angle channel or plates, etc. Depending upon their locations, stringers are known as bilge stringers, side stringers, hole stringers, etc. |
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| Strut | Metal fitting attached to the hull that supports and aligns the aft portion of the propeller shaft. |
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| Studding Out a Sail | Extending a sail using a whisker pole |
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| Studdingsail | On square-rigged ships, an additional sail set in good weather outside the square sails when the wind was abaft the beam. Pronounced "Stun-s'l" |
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