Canoe Glossary

• aft
• aka
• ama
• amidships
• backstays
• back-winding
• ballast
• batten
• beam-reach
• boom
• bow
• brailing line, spillerline
• broad reach
• broad-seaming
• bulkhead
• ce
• chine
• clew
• clr
• collar
• dado
• dagger boards
• fairlead
• foil
• foot
• forestay
• frame
• freeboard
• gibbons rig
• gunwale
• halyard
• head
• hiking seat
• iakos
• in-irons
• jib
• keel
• keel rocker
• lamination
• lashings
• lazy jacks
• lead
• leeboard
• leech
• lee helm
• leeward
• luff
• mainsail
• mainsheet
• manu
• wing mast
• masthead
• mast shrouds
• mold
• oceanic lateen rig
• outboard bracket
• outhaul
• parrel
• pola
• port
• port tack
• proa
• rake
• reefing
• reef points
• ring frame
• scarf joint
• scull
• scupper
• sharpie
• sheer
• sheeting
• shunting
• spars
• spinnaker
• splashboard
• sprit boom
• starboard
• starboard tack
• station
• stay
• staysail
• stem
• stern
• stringer
• strongback
• tack
• tacking rig
• tack line
• trimaran
• wae
• weather helm
• windward
• yard