MARITIME DICTIONARY

ESPAOL CHILE - INGLS

Abarloar: to come alongside

Abatimiento: leeway, drift

Abatir: to fall off, tend leeward

Abrigo: harbor, inlet, cove

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