RANGE OF CABLE.--A sufficient length overhauled and ready so as to allow the anchor to reach the bottom without fouling.
TO REEF.--To reduce a sail by fastening it down to a boom or jack-stay by means of reef-points.
TO REEVE.--To pass a rope through a block.
TO RIGHT.--A yacht is said to right when she rises to an upright position again, after having been thrown on her beam-ends by a sudden squall.
TO RIGHT THE HELM.--To put it amidships, so that the rudder will be in a line with the keel.
TO RUN DOWN.--When one yacht sinks another by running over her.
SCANT.--The wind is said to be scant when a yacht will barely lay her course.
SCOPE.--To pay out more of the cable when at anchor.
TO SCUD.--To run before the wind in a storm.
TO SCUTTLE.--To make holes in a yacht's bottom to sink her.
TO SERVE.--To wind any thing round a rope so as to save it from chafing.
TO SHEER.--To vary to the right and left from a direct course.
TO SHIP.--To place or receive any thing on board; as, to ship a sea, to ship a crew.
TO SHIVER.--To make the sails shake in the wind's eye.
SHOAL.--The land beneath the water that approaches near the surface, or is left bare at low water.
THE SLACK OF A ROPE.--The part that hangs loose.
TO SLIP A CABLE.--To let it run out overboard, and release the yacht from the anchor, being first generally buoyed so as to be recovered.
SNUB.--Used in reference to the cables, in checking the yacht, after they have been paid out.
TO SOUND.--To ascertain the depth of water by means of a lead-line.
TO TAKE A SPELL.--To relieve any one at any duty; as, to take a spell at the wheel.
TO SPILL.--To take the wind out of a sail by easing off the sheets or otherwise, so as to remove the pressure of the wind.
TO SPLICE.--To join two ropes together by interweaving the strands.
A SPRING.--A rope made fast to the cable, and taken on board aft, in order to haul the yacht's side in any direction.
SPRING-TIDES.--The highest tides, which occur at the full and change of the moon.
TO STAND ON.--To keep on in one's course.
STARBOARD.--The right side of a yacht, the observer looking from aft forward.
TO STEER.--To control the yacht with the rudder and tiller.
STRANDED.--A yacht is said to be stranded when she is so far on shore that she cannot be floated.