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| FACE-PIECES | Pieces of wood wrought on the fore part of the knee of the head. |
| FACING | Letting one piece of timber into another with a rabbet. |
| FAG | A rope is fagged when the end is untwisted. |
| FAIR-LEADER | A strip of board or plank, with holes in it, for running rigging to lead through. Also, a block or thimble used for the same purpose. |
| FAKE | One of the circles or rings made in coiling a rope. |
| FALL | That part of a tackle to which thepower is applied in hoisting. |
| FALSE-KEEL | Pieces of timber secured under the main keel of vessels. |
| FANCY-LINE | A line rove through a block at the jaws of a gaff, used as a downhaul. Also, a line used for cross-hauling the lee topping-lift. |
| FASHION-PIECES | The aftermost timbers, terminating the breadth and forming the shape of the stern. |
| FAST | A rope by which a vessel is secured to a wharf. There are bow or head, breast, quarter, and stern fasts. |
| FATHOM | Six feet. |
| FEATHER | To feather an oar in rowing, is to turn the blade horizontally with the top aft as it comes out of the water. |
| FEATHER-EDGED | Planks which have one side thicker than another. |
| FENDERS | Pieces of rope or wood hung over the side of a vessel or boat, to protect it from chafing. The fenders of a neat boat are usually made of canvass and stuffed. |
| FID | A block of wood or iron, placed through the hole in the heel of a mast, and resting on the trestle-trees of the mast below. This supports the mast. Also, a wooden pin, tapered, used in splicing large ropes, in opening eyes, &c. |
| FIDDLE-BLOCK | A long shell, having one sheave over the other, and the lower smaller than the upper. |
| FIDDLE-HEAD | (See HEAD.) |
| FIFE-RAIL | The rail going round a mast. |
| FIGURE-HEAD | A carved head or full-length figure, over the cut-water. |
| FILLINGS | Pieces of timber used to make the curve fair for the mouldings, between the edges of the fish-front and the sides of the mast. |
| FILLER | (See MADE MAST.) |
| FINISHING. | Carved ornaments of the quarter-galley, below the second counter, and above the upper lights. |
| FISH | To raise the flukes of an anchor upon the gunwale. Also, to
strengthen a spar when sprung or weakened, by putting in or fastening
on another piece.
Fish-front, Fishes-sides.. (See MADE MAST.) |
| FISH-DAVIT | The davit used for fishing an anchor. |
| FISH-HOOK | A hook with a pennant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked. |
| FISH-TACKLE | The tackle used for fishing an anchor. |
| FLARE. | When the vessel's sides go out from the perpendicular. In opposition to falling-home or tumbling-in. |
| FLAT | A sheet is said to be hauled flat, when it is hauled
down close.
Flat-aback, when a sail is blown with it's after surface against the mast. |
| FLEET | To come up a tackle and draw the blocks apart, for another pull,
after they have been hauled two-blocks.
Fleet ho! The order given at such times. Also, to shift the position of a block or fall, so as to haul to more advantage. |
| FLEMISH COIL | (See FRENCH-FAKE.) |
| FLEMISH-EYE | A kind of eye-splice. |
| FLEMISH-HORSE | An additional foot-rope at the ends of topsail yards. |
| FLOOR | The bottom of a vessel, on each side of the keelson. |
| FLOOR TIMBERS | Those timbers of a vessel which are placed across the keel. |
| FLOWING SHEET | When a vessel has the wind free, and the lee clews eased off. |
| FLUKES | The broad triangular plates at the extremity of the arms of an anchor, terminating in a point called the bill. |
| FLY | That part of a flag which extends from the Union to the extreme end. (See UNION.) |
| FOOT | The lower end of a mast or sail. (See FORE-FOOT.) |
| FOOT-ROPE | The rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling, formerly called horses. |
| FOOT-WALING | The inside planks or lining of a vessel, over the floor-timbers. |
| FORE | Used to distinguish the forward part of a vessel, or things in that direction; as, fore mast, fore hatch, in opposition to aft or after. |
| FORE-AND-AFT | Lengthwise with the vessel. In opposition to athwart-ships. (See SAILS.) |
| FORECASTLE | That part of the upper deck forward of the fore mast; or, as some say, forward of the after part of the fore channels. Also, the forward part of the vessel, under the deck, where the sailors live, in merchant vessels. |
| FORE-FOOT | A piece of timber at the forward extremity of the keel, upon which the lower end of the stem rests. |
| FORE-GANGER | A short piece of rope grafted on a harpoon, to which the line is bent. |
| FORE-LOCK | A flat piece of iron, driven through the end of a bolt, to prevent its drawing. |
| FORE MAST | The forward mast of all vessels. |
| FOREREACH | To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays. |
| FORE-RUNNER | A piece of rag, terminating the stray-line of the log-line. |
| FORGE | To forge ahead, to shoot ahead; as, in coming to anchor, after the sails are furled. (See FOREREACH.) |
| FORMERS | Pieces of wood used for shaping cartridges or wads. |
| FOTHER or FODDER | To draw a sail, filled with oakum, under a vessel's bottom, in order to stop a leak. |
| FOUL | The term for the opposite of clear. |
| FOUL ANCHOR | When the cable has a turn round the anchor. |
| FOUL HAWSE | When the two cables are crossed or twisted, outside the stem. |
| FOUNDER | A vessel founders, when she fills with water and sinks. |
| FOX | Made by twisting together two or more rope-yarns.
A Spanish fox is made by untwisting a single yarn and laying it up the contrary way. |
| FRAP | To pass ropes round a sail to keep it from blowing loose. Also, to draw ropes round a vessel which is weakened, to keep her together. |
| FREE | A vessel is going free, when she has a fair wind and her yards braced in. A vessel is said to be free, when the water has been pumped out of her. |
| FRESHEN | To relieve a rope, by moving its place; as, to freshen the
nip of a stay, is to shift it, so as to prevent its chafing
through.
To freshen ballast, is to alter its position. |
| FRENCH-FAKE | To coil a rope with each fake outside of the other, beginning in the middle. If there are to be riding fakes, they begin outside and go in; and so on. This is called a Flemish coil. |
| FULL-AND-BY | Sailing close-hauled on a wind.
Full-and-by! The order given to the man at the helm to keep the sails full and at the same time close to the wind. |
| FURL | To roll a sail up snugly on a yard or boom, and secure it. |
| FUTTOCK-PLATES | Iron plates crossing the sides of the top-rim perpendicularly. The dead-eyes of the topmast rigging are fitted to their upper ends, and the futtock-shrouds to their lower ends. |
| FUTTOCK-SHROUDS | Short shrouds, leading from the lower ends of the futtock-plates to a bend round the lower mast, just below the top. |
| FUTTOCK-STAFF | A short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the rigging, to which the catharpin legs are secured. |
| FUTTOCK-TIMBERS | Those timbers between the floor and naval timbers, and the top-timbers. There are two - the lower, which is over the floor, and the middle, which is over the naval timber. The naval timber is sometimes called the ground futtock. |
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