Year: 2013 Language: English Author: Tuffley D. Genre: Dictionary Publisher: Altiora Publications Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 64 Description: The sea has its own language. It always has. Long before GPS, before engine rooms and satellite phones, before the world shrank to the size of a screen, sailors developed a vocabulary as precise and purposeful as the vessels they crewed. Every rope had a name. Every manoeuvre a term. Every condition of wind, water, tide and hull a word that could, in the right moment, mean the difference between safe passage and disaster. That language — salt-worn, centuries deep, and still very much alive — is what this book is about. A Dictionary of Nautical Terms by David Tuffley is a comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to the language of the sea, covering the full breadth of maritime vocabulary from the age of sail to the modern era. Whether you're an experienced mariner looking to sharpen your knowledge, a newcomer to boating trying to make sense of the terminology, a writer researching a seafaring story, or simply someone who has always been curious about what people mean when they talk about "beating to windward" or "splicing the mainbrace" — this dictionary belongs within arm's reach.
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Nautical Terms - A Dictionary
Language: English
Author: Tuffley D.
Genre: Dictionary
Publisher: Altiora Publications
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 64
Description: The sea has its own language. It always has. Long before GPS, before engine rooms and satellite phones, before the world shrank to the size of a screen, sailors developed a vocabulary as precise and purposeful as the vessels they crewed. Every rope had a name. Every manoeuvre a term. Every condition of wind, water, tide and hull a word that could, in the right moment, mean the difference between safe passage and disaster. That language — salt-worn, centuries deep, and still very much alive — is what this book is about.
A Dictionary of Nautical Terms by David Tuffley is a comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to the language of the sea, covering the full breadth of maritime vocabulary from the age of sail to the modern era. Whether you're an experienced mariner looking to sharpen your knowledge, a newcomer to boating trying to make sense of the terminology, a writer researching a seafaring story, or simply someone who has always been curious about what people mean when they talk about "beating to windward" or "splicing the mainbrace" — this dictionary belongs within arm's reach.
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