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| Winding | Turning a vessel end for end between buoys, or along-side a wharf or pier. |
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| Windlass | A special form of winch used to hoist the anchors. It has two drums designed to grab the links of the anchor chains and is fitted with ratchet and braking device suitable for "paying out" chain. - A windlass revolves around a horizontal axis, as opposed to a capstan, which rotates around a vertical axis. |
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| Window | A transparent portion of a jib or mainsail. |
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| Windshift | The natural occurrence of the movement of the wind. Sailors use windshifts to sail a shorter distance on a race course. |
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| Windward | Barlovento
Towards the wind. Windward is an adjective meaning the direction from which the wind is blowing. The windward side of a boat is the one which the wind hits first. "Sailing to windward" means sailing towards the wind. Opposite of leeward. |
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| Windward Mark | A racing mark or buoy that is set upwind. |
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| Wing and Wing | Sailing directly downwind with two sails set. Usually the mainsail on one side and a headsail on the other, or one headsail on each side. |
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| Wishbone | A boom composed of two separate curved pieces, one on either side of the sail. With this rig, sails are usually self tending and loose-footed. |
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| Without Prejudice | Words used when a statement, comment, or action is not to be taken as implying agreement or disagreement, or affecting in any way a matter in dispute, or under consideration. |
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| Working Sheet | The sheet that is currently taught and in use to control a sail. The opposite of the lazy sheet. |
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| Worm | The operation of passing a small line in a spiral between the lays of a rope, in preparation for parcelling and serving. Rope is wormed, parcelled and served to protect it from water which could rot it, or from chafing |
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| Wrack | (1) To destroy by wave action. (2) Seaweed thrown ashore by sea. |
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| Wreck | The hull of a ship which is a total loss through weather stress, collision, fire, sinking, stranding or any other cause. |
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