PURSUIT 2470 CENTER CONSOLE Owner's Manual download pdf (Page 110)

2470 CENTER CONSOLE

Ground Tackle: A general term including anchors, lines, and other gear used in anchoring.

Grounds: A boat touches the bottom.

Gunwale: The upper edge of a boat’s side.

Hand Rail: Rail mounted on the boat, for grabbing with your hand, to steady you while

walking about the boat.

Harbor: An anchorage which provides reasonably good protection for a boat, with shelter from

wind and sea.

Hatch: An opening in the deck with a door or lid to allow for access down into a compartment

of a boat.

Head: A toilet on a boat.

Heat Exchanger: Used to transfer the heat that is picked up by the closed cooling system to the

raw cooling water.

Helm: The steering and control area of a boat.

Hull: The part of the boat from the deck down.

Inboard: A boat with the engine mounted within the hull of the boat. Also refers to the center

of the boat away from the sides.

Inboard/outboard: Also stern drive or I/O. A boat with an inboard engine attached to an

outboard drive unit.

Keel: A plate or timber plate running lengthwise along the center of the bottom of a boat.

Knot: Unit of speed indicating nautical miles per hour. 1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour (1.15

miles per hour). A nautical mile is equal to one minute of latitude: 6076 feet. Knots times 1.15

equals miles per hour. Miles per hour times .87 equals knots.

Lay-up: To decommission a boat for the winter (usually in northern climates).

Leeward: The direction toward which the wind is blowing.

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