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| Ship's Stability | The seaworthiness of a ship regarding the centrifugal force which enables her to remain upright. |
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| Shipmaster | A person in command of a ship. A person certified as competent to command a ship. A master mariner. |
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| Shipping Lane | Path through open water used for commercial vessel passage and so noted on chart |
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| Shipwright | A ship builder, or one who works about a ship. Does wood carpentry on the ship and keeps ships faired. Builds launching ways and launches ship. |
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| Shiver My Timbers! | An expression of surprise or unbelief, as when a ship strikes a rock or shoal so hard that her timbers shiver. |
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| Shoal | (1) Shallow water. (2) An underwater sand bar or hill that has its top near the surface. |
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| Shoe | (1) A false keel. (2) The projection of the keel abaft the stern frame where the spindle of the rudder rests. |
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| Shoot | (1) A navigator shoots the sun by using a sextant to measure its altitude. (2) A sailing vessel shoots when she forges ahead to windward with her sails luffing. |
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| Shoot Ahead | To move ahead swiftly. To move ahead of another vessel quickly when underway. |
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| Shore | Costa
(1) The land in general, but usually refers to that part adjacent to the water. (2) A timber used in damage control to brace bulkheads and decks. (3) One of the many wooden props by which the ribs or frames of a vessel are externally supported while building, or by which the vessel is held upright on the ways. |
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| Shoring | The act of supporting anything by propping or shoring it up. |
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| Short Sea | When the distance between the wave crests is less than normal. |
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| Short Splice | To permanently join two pieces of rope. It will not pass through a block since it increases the diameter |
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| Short Stay | Said of a vessel's anchor, or cable when the amount of cable out is not more than one-and-a-half times the depth of water. |
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| Short Ton | 2,000 pounds. |
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