Part 45

Tacks

Used By the Joyners and Oar-makers for fining Oars.

Timber

Used by the Shipwrights and House Carpenters.

Weight

Used by the Shipwrights and House Carpenters.

Wherry

Used by the Boat Builders.

Woolding

Drove through the Ropes that Woold the Ship's Masts.

Needles

Boltrope Sail

Are allowed the Boatswains for repairing the Ship's Sails when at Sea.

Navel Hoods

Are large Pieces of Stuff fayd against the Hawse Holes, and fills out to the outer Edge of the Cheeks, to keep the Cable from rubbing them.

Naveline

Is a Rope reeved through a Block made fast to the middle Rib, and another Block being made fast at the Mast-head, the Line goes through them, which makes a Tackle to hoist the Parrel.

Navigation

The Art of sailing or conducting a Ship or Vessel the safest and most commodious Way from one Place to another.

Neap

When a Ship wants Water to float her, so that she cannot get out of a Harbour, off the Ground, or out of the Dock, she is neaped, and are those Tides which happen seven Days after the Moon's Change or Full.

Netting

Is twice laid Cordage bigger than Lashing, and is used for Stantion Ropes, &c.

Nettings

Are a Sort of Grate made with small twice laid Rope, and seized together with Rope Yarn or Twine, and are fixed on the Quarters and in the Tops.

Nippers

Are made of Rope Yarns, and several Turns are taken round the Cable and Voyal when heaving at the Main or Jeer Capston, in order to weigh the Anchor.

Oars