MARITIME DICTIONARY ESPANOL CHILE - INGLES Abarloar: to come alongside abatimiento: leeway, drift abatir: to fall off, tend leeward abordar: to crash or bump one ship against another aclarar: to clear Acoderar: to bring the broadside to bear, to anchor broadside on acuartelar: to flat or haul in the jib achicar: to pump out
MARITIME DICTIONARY ESPANOL CHILE - INGLES Abarloar: to come alongside abatimiento: leeway, drift abatir: to fall off, tend leeward abordar: to crash or bump one ship against another aclarar: to clear Acoderar: to bring the broadside to bear, to anchor broadside on acuartelar: to flat or haul in the jib achicar: to pump out
MARITIME DICTIONARY ESPANOL CHILE - INGLES Abarloar: to come alongside abatimiento: leeway, drift abatir: to fall off, tend leeward abordar: to crash or bump one ship against another aclarar: to clear Acoderar: to bring the broadside to bear, to anchor broadside on acuartelar: to flat or haul in the jib achicar: to pump out
Abordar: to crash or bump one ship against another
Aclarar: to clear
Acoderar: to bring the broadside to bear, to anchor broadside on
Acollador: lanyard
Acuartelar: to flat or haul in the jib
Achicar: pump out the bilge
Achicador: pump
Adrizar: to right itself
Adujar: to curl up
Alefriz: mortise, rabbet
Aleta: place on a ship
Alma: center of a curled rope
Alunamiento: curve of boltrope
Amadrinar: to splice together, join
Amainar: to calm, lessen, reduce
Amante: rope, pendant
Amantillo: lift, topping lift
Amarra: mooring line, cable or rope
Amura: bow timbers, tack of a sail
Anclote: kedge anchor
Aparadura: garboard
Aparejar: to rig, fit out
Aparejo: rigging
Apopar: balance out
Arboladura: masts and yards; rigging
Ardiente: bring into the wind
Arganeo: anchor ring
Armar: ready a ship to launch
Arraigado: lashing, mooring line or chain
Arrancada: starting jerk, sudden start
Arranchar: to skirt, sail close to
Arrufo: sheer of a ship
Arribar: to drift with the wind, to fall off to leeward
Arrumbamiento: course
Atracar: to bring alongside
Atracada: docking, berthing
Azimut: azimuth
Azocar: to tighten up (a knot)
Babor: port side
Balandrajo: sloop
Baliza: buoy, beacon
Baluma: after-leach rope
Bancada: rowers bench, bank
Banda: side of ship
Bandazo: lurch, violent heave or roll to one side
Baera: wash tub
Baos: beam
Barloventear: to ply to windward
Barlovento: windward
Bargrafo: barograph
Barmetro: barometer
Batten: cutlass
Baupres: bowsprit
Bichero: boathook
Bitcora: binnacle, compass case
Bita: bitt, cleat
Bolina: bowline, sounding line
Borda: gunwale, main sail
Borde: board, side of a ship
Bordejear: to tack back and forth
Borneo: twisting at anchor, space to turn around a ship
Botaln: boom
Botavara: gaff, boom
Botazo: boot, cushion, bumper
Boyarin: float or be afloat
Boza: stopper, small boat, mooring line
Braza: fathom, brace rope
Brazola: coaming
Brazos: boom, jib
Bruma: the morning fog
Buque: ship, boat, vessel
Bularcamas: rider, rib, rib re-enforcement in hull
Burdas: backstay
Cabecear: to pitch, plunge, to lurch, sway back and forth Cabeza: head of an anchor Cable: a measurement of length Cabina: cabin Cabo: rope or cable Cabotaje: coastal sailing or trading Caer: to fall in a certain direction Cajera: sheave channel or groove Calabrote: thick cable used to tie up ships Calado: maximum depth of submerged part of a ship Calafatear: caulk or calk Cancamo: a metal ring shaped object to tighten up a cable Candelero: stanchion Caa: middle of an anchor Capear: to lay to, to weather the storm by maneuvering expertly Caperol: stemhead, the highest part of the prow of a boat Carena: part of the ship under the water Carlinga: mast step Carroza: awning Carpa: a cover to shade the suns rays or keep rain out Carta nutica: nautical map Casco: part below the deck or sub-structure Cataviento: dogvane Cazar: to tally or haul in Centro de carena: the center of the part below water of a ship Centro de gravedad: center of gravity Centro de resistencia lateral: lateral resistance center of a ship Centro vlico: point where the wind force hits the sail Ceir: to sail against the wind with the least angle possible Cepo: a piece of metal attached to the middle of the anchor Cerrazn: a blanket of storm clouds Chalana: small embarkation project, on the surface Chalupa: an old measure, a small embarkation that can carries two mast Chata: a small flat bottom boat with large cargo capacity Chicote: extreme end of a cable or chain Chicha: absolute calm Chinchorro: a small auxiliary boat Chubasquera: rain cover Ciar: to put about, to turn around Cintn: a wooden structure that goes on the back of a ship Codaste: sternpost Cockpit: cockpit Codera: stern fast Comps: compass Comps magntico: magnetic compass Compensacin: actions to compensate for magnetic variations Condiciones marineras: sea conditions Conserva: a company that puts two or more boats at sea Cornamusa: a substance to make a rope or cable stiff
Corredera: an instrument to measure the distance traveled to determine speed Correr: to sail in bad weather with little or no sail Costados: to turn broadside Costillas: ribs of a ship Cote: a simple tie of a rope Coz: base of a top mast Crucetas: crosstree Cruja: midship gangway Cruz: center of a sail yard, throat of an anchor Cuaderna: frame of a hull, main ribs or timbers of a ship Cuadernal: block, block and tackle Cuaderno de bitcora: a notebook or log with all of the information to navigate Cuadra: quarter, width of beam Cuadrante: log bearings on a nautical chart Cuarta: rhumb, point of a compass Cuartern: large scale nautical map Cubierta: deck Cubierta principal: main deck Cuchilla/o: full triangular sail Culebra, culebrilla: cable or line Culebrear: to zig zag Cuter: cutter Dracn: a commercial brand name for cloth used for sails Declinacin magntica: magnetic declination Defensas: bumpers or buoys to keep ships from rubbing up against the dock Demora: bearing Deriva: to drift Derivar: drift or go off course Derrame: leakage of wind (through boltropes) Derrota: ships course Derrotero: course, route, collection of charts Desabrigado: without harbor, abandoned Desarbolar: to get clear after a collision Desarmar: to dismantle and lay up (a ship) Desatracar: to push off from the pier, to sheer away from the coast Descuartelar: to navigate with the wind Desentalingar: to unbend, unfasten (a cable from an anchor ring) Desplazamiento: displacement Desvo: diversion, deviation Dinghy: dinghy or small boat Draga: dredge Driza: halyard Durmiente: shelfpiece Embarrancar: to run aground Embestir: to run into another boat Embicar: to steer straight for land Empaquetadura: something put between two surfaces Empavesado: ships dressing or bunting Empopada: sailing before the wind Encalmarse: to calm down Encallar: to run aground Encapilladura: the top of the mast Encepar: to foul (the anchor) Enfachar: to put the bow into the wind Enfilacin: to stay on a straight line or on course Engalanado: bedecked Enjaretado: wooden grating or latticework Entalingar: to clinch a cable to the anchor ring Entena: lateen yard, long beam Envergar: to bend the sails, to fasten the sails to the yard Escala de una carta: the difference between a drawn object and its real size, scale Escala de gato: catwalk Escala de tojino: a fixed ladder usually made of steel rungs Escandalosa: gaff, top sail Escadallo: sounding-lead, trail Escarceo: choppiness of the sea Escoben: the opening on the ship from which the anchor is raised/lowered Escollo: reef Escora: line running through point of curvature, shore, prop, list, heel Escota: sheet Escuadra: crew Eslora: length, binding strakes of the deck, total length Espejo: fantail curvature or surface Espia: a name given to a cable on a boat Espiche: a hole made to empty water Estanco: watertight, leak proof, seaworthy Estanqueidad: water tightness Estay: stay, mainstay Estela: wake of a ship, Estima: dead reckoning Estribor: starboard Estrobo: grommet, strap Estropada: inertia of a tied up ship Fibra de vidrio: fiberglass Filar: to case out, to pay out (as rope) Filastica: rope yarn, rope strands Flechaste: ratline Fondeadero: anchorage place, anchoring ground Fogonadura: mast-hole Fondear: to anchor, cast anchor, to sound (the depth of water) Fondo: bottom, seabed Foque: jib, balloon sail Fortuna: storm, tempest Forro: planking, sheathing, covering Fragata: frigate Fraile: a piece of wood used in the stern of a ship to tie down things Franco: a wind that allows for straight forward sailing without tacking Francobordo: a vertical measurement from the flotation line to the top of the cabin Gallardete: pennant, streamer Galleta: top piece of a mast or sail made of metal or plastic Garete: to be adrift, drift Garrear: to drag the anchor Garrucho: grommet, cringle Gatera: the tube that the anchor chain comes out of Gaza: splice, noose, strap, loop Goleta: schooner Grampn: small grapnel Grandes veleros: old sailing ships Gratil: leech (of a sail), slings, middle of yard Grillete: a u bolt of multiple use on a ship Grmpola: pennant, streamer Groera: rope hole Guaira: leg-of-mutton sail Gualdrapear: to flap (sails) Guardacabo: iron ring bound with rope to prevent chafing Guardamancebo: man-rope Guindaleza: ships cable, hawser Guindola: life buoy, log chip, boatswains chair Guiada: yaw, lurch Hacer cabeza: when the anchor hits bottom Hembra: grudgeon Imbornal: drain hole Izar: hoist, to haul up Jarcia: all of the ropes or cables on a boat Jarcia firme: rope or cable storage area on a boat Jarcia mvil o de labor: rope storage area Ketch: ketch, smack Kevlar: Kevlar Landa fija: metal hook Landa mvil: moveable metal hook Lantia: binnacle lamp Lanzamiento: casting away Largo: wind along the ship Lastre: ballast, Latitud: Lattitude Levar: raise the anchor from the ocean floor or bottom Limera: rudder hole, helmpool Lnea de cruja: line along the length of the ship Lnea de fe: direction of the bow as indicated on the magnetic compass Lnea de flotacin: flotation line Lnea de posicin: position line Llamador: a cable piece Longitud geogrfica: Geographic longitude Lua: lee Lumbrera: porthole Machos: rudder pintle Maestra: main mast Manga: width of a ship Maniobra: exercise, practice Mano de rizos: to take in the reefs Mapa: map or nautical chart Marcacin: relative bearing, taking ships bearing Mstil: mast, top mast, Matafiones: small ropes that make the sail stiff Mayor: main (mast) Mecha: spindle, main part of mast Mena: thickness of cordage Mesana: mizzen mast or sail Milla nutica: nautical mile Molinete: winch Mordaza: hawschole clamp (stops or slows exit of anchor chain) Morder: to tighten, bite or clamp down, strike bottom Mortero: inner compass box Mosquetn: a metal piece to tighten up a connection Motn: topping block Muerto: heavy anchor Mylar: mylar Navegacin: navigation, the art of sailing or piloting a ship Nervadura, nervio: structural re-enforcement that makes material or fiber glass lines stiffer or more rigid Norte del comps: north by compass Norte geogrfico: geographic north or true north Norte magntico: magnetic north Nudo: a knot, measure of speed Obenque: the cables that hold the mast up Obenquillo: shroud, guy, shifters Obra muerta: the part of the hull that is out of the water Obra viva: the part of the hull that is below the water line Ollao: eyelets of the sail or shades Orejas de burro: a way of navegating Orla: wood or metal covers Orza: sail set into the wind Orzar: luff, luffing, turning into the wind Pabelln: the national flag Pairear, ponerse al pairo: to decrease speed Palmear: a wooden flooring used on a ship Pala: the flat, wide part of the oar that is submerged in the water or the entire oar Palo: main supporting structure of the sail Palo seco: all sails secured or stowed Pantoque: part of the hull, the transition between the bottom and the side, usually curved Pao: all of the material that makes up the sail Pasamanos: handrails, gangway Pasteca: snatch block Pendura: anchor suspended below water Penol: yardarm, peak, very close Percha: headrail Pico: gaff, top of mast support Pico de loro: part of the anchor Pie de amigo: part of mast Pie de gallo: cable or rope Pinula: sight, pinnule Pinzote: tiller, pintle Plano lateral: vertical plane Pluma: carto lift Popa: stern of a ship Portaespa: metal device used to prevent damage to ropes or cables Prctico: harbor pilot Proa: bow Publicaciones nuticas: nautical material such as sea tables, charts Puesta a punto: sail position at its maximum efficiency Pujamen: foot of a sail, bottom part of sail Quebranto: deformation, flexing of hull Queche: ketch, smack Quilla: keel, bilge Quillote: stabilizes the lateral plane of the ship Rabiza: short rope or cable Rastrera: lower studding sail Recalar: to sight land, to reach a ship Recalmn: lull in wind or sea Regala: gunwale, gunnel Relinga: boltrope, rope (of fishing net) Repicar: to tighten up Restinga: shoal, bar, ledge of rocks Retenida: guy, guy wire Rezn: grapnel Ra: estuary Rifadura: splitting (of a sail) Rizos: to take in the reefs Roda: cutwater, stem Rol: list of crew members of a ship Rolar, rolido: to veer around Ronza: to fall leeward Rosa de los vientos: a circle marked with the directions in 360 degrees Rumbo: course Sable: batten or wood planking Sagula: halyard Saltar: sudden change in wind Sargazo: gulfweed Seccin transversal: transverse section Seccin maestra: principle transverse section Seno: simple rope or cable knot Sentina: bilge Serreta: a structural re-enforcing metal piece that runs from bow to stern Sextante: sextant Shock Cord: shock cord Sigladura: the distance traveled by a ship in 24 hours Sirgar: to tow, to track Sobrequilla: keelson Socaire: lee, slack, under protection Sonda: sounding, probing, fathoming Sondaleza: sounding line. Sotavento: leeward, lee Spinnaker: spinnaker, Sphinx, a type of sail Suspencin Cardnica: a place where ships instruments are positioned so that they are not affected by the movements caused by the ocean Tambucho: a place to stow sails and things, ventilation, light opening Tangn: outrigger Tarquina: trapezoidal sail Telera: the box where International Signal Flags are stored Templar: to trim sails to the wind Tenedero: anchoring ground Tensor: tension adjustment mechanism Tingladillo: clinker work Tintero: female metal piece Tolete: rowlock, oarlock, thole Tomadores: gasket Tope: top of the main mast Tracas: strake Trancanil: waterway Transluchar: change the direction of the sails, change to leeward Travs: perpendicular position of the ship to the coastline Trinca: lashing rope Trincar: to lie to Trinquete: foreyard, foresail, foremast Trinquetilla: small jib, fore-topmast staysail Ua: bill, peak, fluke of an anchor Vagra: longitudinal structural beam Varadero: shipyard, drydock Varar: to put in drydock, to run aground, to come to a standstill Varenga: headrail, frame timber Vareta: wooden structure or strips Velamen: the totality of the sails of a ship Verdn: scum or mold, barnacles Verduguillo: sheer rail, sheer strake Verga: yard, crossjack yard, all ready to sail Veril: border of a canal, bank Viento: tie downs Viento aparente o relativo: relative wind Viento real: real wind Virar: to turn, veer, tack Virazn: sea breeze Yate: yatch Yawl (Yol): yawl Yola: dinghy Zafar: loosen, untie Zaga: long line of the ship Zapata: false keel