Glossary
- athwartships: perpendicular to fore and aft.
- beam: a timber similar in use to a floor joist, which runs from one side of the hull to the other athwartships.
- carlin: similar to a beam, except running in a fore and aft direction.
- caulk: to make water-tight by driving caulking (usually loose cotton fibers) into a seam, followed by a coarser fiber material such as oakum.
- core: in fibreglass construction, a layer between fiberglass skins, made of foam, end grain balsa, or other strengthening material to increase the stiffness of the deck.
- fore and aft: parallel to a line from the stem to the stern.
- gel coat: a heavily pigmented layer of plastic resin.
- oakum: loosely twisted hemp or jute or other crude fibre, sometimes treated with creosote or tar before use.
- pay: to pour into or fill up a seam so it is level with the top of the plank.
- plating: sheets of metal, generally simple flat pieces but may be formed into complex curvatures.
- pooping wave: A wave which comes over the stern and onto the deck.
- scantling: the critical dimensions of any element of the ship; so for the skin and deck of the hull it would be the thickness (of the planks, fibreglass layup, hull plating, etc.)
- seam: the space between two planks.
- stem: The timber at the front of the hull.
- stern: back end of the hull.
- topsides: the upper surfaces of the hull from the waterline to the deck.
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