Sailing ship components

thumb|Stockless anchor|Stockless ship's anchor and chain on display thumb|Anchor of Amoco Cadiz in [[Portsall, north-west Brittany, France]] thumb|Memorial anchor in Kirjurinluoto, [[Pori, Finland]] thumb|Massive anchor chain for large ships. The weight of the chain is vital for proper holding of the anchor.

thumb|Self-tailing winch on a sailboat. A Sheet (sailing)|sheet line runs from the sail (left, not shown) behind the winch to a block (lower right, not shown) and only from there back to the winch (lower part). The handle is detachable to ease line handling. thumb|Front of a MAN SE|MAN-based [[fire engine with a built-in winch, e.g. for towing damaged cars after an accident]] A winch is a mechanical device that is used to pull in (wind up) or let out (wind out) or otherwise adjust the tension of a rope or wire rope (also called "cable" or "wire cable").

carved wooden decoration found at the prow of a ship

thumb|300px|Replica of the Victoria (ship)|Victoria, the only one of [[Ferdinand Magellan's five ships to return to Spain in 1522, showing both a forecastle (left) and quarterdeck (right).]]

thumb|upright=1.0|Amante, a 1983 "Choate 48" in Newport Beach, California, in February 2015 flying a symmetric spinnaker thumb|Bear of Britain, a Farr Yacht Design|Farr 52 with masthead spinnaker in front of [[Calshot Spit]]

A jib is a triangular sail that sets ahead of the foremast of a sailing vessel. Its forward corner (tack) is fixed to the bowsprit, to the bows, or to the deck between the bowsprit and the foremost mast. Jibs and spinnakers are the two main types of headsails on a modern boat.

thumb Hawsehole is a nautical term for a small hole in the hull of a ship through which hawsers may be passed. It is also known as a cat hole. In the (British) Royal Navy, a man who had risen from the lowest grade to officer was said to have "come in at the hawsehole".

deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the aft part of the superstructure of a ship

thumb|280pxA centreboard or centerboard (US) is a retractable hull appendage which pivots out of a slot in the hull of a sailboat, known as a centreboard trunk (UK) or centerboard case (US). The retractability allows the centreboard to be raised to operate in shallow waters, to move the centre of lateral resistance (offsetting changes to the sailplan that move the centre of effort aft), to reduce drag when the full area of the centreboard is not needed, or when removing the boat from the water, as when trailering. A centreboard which consists of solely a pivoting metal plate is called a center

A binnacle () is a waist-high case or stand on the deck of a ship, generally mounted in front of the helmsman, in which navigational instruments are placed for easy and quick reference as well as to protect the instruments. Its traditional purpose was to hold the ship's magnetic compass, mounted in gimbals to keep it level while the ship pitched and rolled.

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thumb|Supply Naval rating|ratings handling a coil of towing hawser (rope) at the [[Royal Navy's Naval Stores Department, Nore, Harwich, which supplies all of the Royal Navy's sea-going ships with the stores and provisions that they need. Note that the coil is bigger than the men and they need a trolley to transport it.]] thumb|The hawser is coiled on deck. Hawser () is a nautical term for a thick rope used in mooring or towing a ship. A hawser is not waterproof, as is a cable. A hawser is an anchor rope, located on the hawse.

thumb|Tiller blocked by two lines thumb|right|Stern compartment containing the tiller of Swedish warship Vasa (ship)|Vasa

drag device used to stabilize a boat in heavy weather and reduce drift

thumb|right|A traditional ship's mast, consisting of "lower" (i.e. Main-, Fore- or Mizzen-) mast, topmast and topgallant/royal mast. The topmast is highlighted in red. The masts of traditional sailing ships were not single spars, but were constructed of separate sections or masts, each with its own rigging. The topmast is one of these.

lowest deck in a ship

location of controls of a vessel

sailing part

support below the flooring plank

thumb|Aftercastle of the frigate French frigate Méduse (1810)|Méduse, as seen from the deck thumb|Galleon showing both a [[forecastle (left) and aftercastle (right)]] thumb|upright|Stern of a replica 17th-century galleon The aftercastle (or sterncastle, sometimes aftcastle) is the stern structure behind the mizzenmast and above the transom on large sailing ships, such as carracks, caravels, galleons and galleasses. It usually houses the captain's cabin and perhaps additional cabins and is crowned by the poop deck, which on men-of-war provided a heightened platform from which to fire upon other

A beakhead or beak is the protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.

ship hull covering

thumb|A Dutch sailing barge showing its stowed windward leeboard, hiked up with wind from starboard thumb|Leeboard deployed on a Thames sailing barge on the East Swin thumb|right|alt=Modern sharpie fitted with leeboards|The Centennial a 1979 Ted Brewer sharpie fitted with leeboards

oversized oar or board to control the direction of watercraft

A skeg (or skegg or skag) is a sternward extension of the keel of boats and ships which have a rudder mounted on the centre line. The term also applies to the lowest point on an outboard motor or the outdrive of an inboard/outboard. In more recent years, the name has been used for a fin on a surfboard which improves directional stability and to a movable fin on a kayak which adjusts the boat's centre of lateral resistance (it moves the center of resistance relative to the center of effort). The term is also often used for the fin on water skis in the U.S. It has been used for the vertical fin

Various types of rope ladders on ships

A whipstaff is a steering device that was used on European sailing ships from the 14th to the 18th century. Its development preceded the invention of the more complex ship's wheel and followed the simple use of a tiller to control the steering of a ship underway.

In naval architecture, a taffrail is the handrail around the open deck area toward the stern of a ship or boat. The rear deck of a ship is often called the afterdeck or poop deck. Not all ships have an afterdeck or poop deck. Sometimes taffrail refers to just the curved wooden top of the stern of a sailing man-of-war or East Indiaman ship. These wooden sailing ships usually had hand-carved wooden rails, often highly decorated. Sometimes taffrail refers to the complete deck area at the stern of a vessel.

piece of timber laid under the deck of a ship

feature of sailing ships