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Plank (v) (Boeien) To cover the skeleton of a ship with planks.
Planking tongs (Boeitang) A tool for holding the bottom planks of the floor in alignment during construction of a ship with the shell-first method.
Putlog ( Juck ) Horizontal part of the scaffolding on which planks were laid.
Quarterdeck (Halfdek) A deck abaft the main mast. Quarter figure (Hoekman) A carved figure serving as a
support between the first and second hackebord. Quarter gallery (Galerij) Ornamental balcony on the
sides of the stern.
Quarter gallery architrave (Scheergangetje) Part of the quarter gallery, connected to the second cover.
Rabbet (Sponning) A groove in the keel, stem, and sternpost into which the planks were fitted.
Railing, (capping) rail (Regeling) A narrow plank covering the tops of the top timbers.
Rake (Vallen) The inclination of a vessel’s mast from its upright angle with the keel. The rake may be either forward or aft.
Rising wood (Slemphout) A piece of wood connecting stem and keel. (Slemphout is also used for the cheek of the beakhead and for the support for the foremast step.)
Rise, dead rise (Rijzen) The amount by which the ship’s bottom and floor timbers curve upward.
Roband (Raband) Piece of rope connecting a sail to a yard.
Rocker (Stapelen) The deliberate upward curvature at the ends of a longitudinal timber, such as the keel.
If a keel is laid on the stocks, the middle part is lower than the ends—it is given rocker. In the water buoyancy compensates for this difference, as the upward force of the water is greater in the mid-body than at the ends.
Rowle (Bril ) A rotating piece of wood with a hole through which the whipstaff was let. It allowed the whipstaff to be moved not only from left to right but also in and out to increase the working angle of the rudder.
Rudder (Roer) The ship’s steering mechanism, hung from the sternpost with pintles.
Scarf (Las) The joint between two pieces of wood. Scarf table (Lip) The faying surface of a scarf.
(Schild(je), schilt) (lit. “shield”) 1. A coat of arms on the taffrail or on the bulwarks of the forecastle and quarter deck. 2. The carved part in the deck that holds the rowle, through which the whipstaff pivots. 3. The forward bulkhead of the forecastle.
Scupper hose, scupper valve (Mammiering) A leather or linen hose nailed to the scupper outboard to prevent water from running into the ship through the scupper when the ship is heeling.
Shear mast (Stut) A wooden pole for lifting stem and stern during construction of the ship.
Sheer rail (Rahout) The uppermost wale, planed with a molding.
Ramshead block (Kardeel blok) for hoisting the lower sails.
A heavy halyard block
Ratline (Scheerlijn) One of the lines attached horizontally between the shrouds to serve as rungs of a ladder.
Ribband (Zent, cent, sent) Batten to temporarily define the shape of the ship above the master ribband during construction.
Rider (in the hold) (Kattespoor) An assembly of several timbers, constructed like a frame but fitted inside the ceiling, which doubled the number of frames and provided reinforcement.
Rise of the sheer (Opzetten) The amount by which the wales or decks were higher at their ends than at the main frame (i.e., the curved line of a ship from fore to aft ).
Sheet (Schoot) a sail.
A rope to control the lower corner of
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