Afloat Xword 57

Compiled by John Gray

Athwart

1 The name given to the loop of a rope when it is folded (5)
4 Boats which can be a type of youth class, basic, cartopping, one man dinghy (5)  7 Sea-chest without the box for wind-driven waves (3)  9 Name given to the surfaces offered to the wind by a vessel (7)
10 When the sheets of the fore-and-aft sails are hauled as taut as possible (4,3)  11 A projection from a ship’s side upon which one may walk (5)
12 Belonging to or pertaining to the sky or the heavens (9)
13 Boards fitted to flat-bottomed boats to stop leeward driftings (9)  16 Name given the lowest deck in a ship -where anchors are weighed and cables are coiled in their lockers (5)
18 A one-design dinghy, two crew, over-rotating rig, no spinnaker, sail area main 8.36sqm, jib 3.07sqm (5)
19 Small pruning shears (9)
 21 A heavy canvas cover, tarred or painted; usually used to cover hatches for water-tightness (9)  23 A seaport on the Gulf of Guinea and former capital of British Colony of Gold Coast, now Ghana (5)
25 Name given the “striker” which is a perpendicular strut, usually metal, which tensions the martingale under a bowsprit (7)  26 A Chinese method of sculling with a single oar, shipped over the stern of a boat (7)
27 The prefix used for German naval ships, the equivalent of British H.M.S. (3)  28 What an old iron hull might be like if exposed to the sea waves (5) ? 29 A ship’s name used more than twenty times in the Royal Navy, best known being the aircraft carriers (5)

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1 Situation, with crew aft, boat has a short waterline shape, then slows and turns away from the wind (3,2)
2 Sails which are crosses between genoas and spinnakers, hoisted without poles, and having tacks attached to bottoms of forestays (9)
3 A strip of metal on a yacht’s mast or boom to take slides fixed to the luff or foot of a sail (5)
4 A trysail laced to a gaff, and set on the after side of the fore or main mast of a square rigger, like a spanker on a mizzen mast (7) 
5 Longitudinal bulkheads used to control moving water in tanks and holds (7) 
6 A ship either naval or hired, employed in delivering troops or other persons to and from overseas (9) 
7 A swim badly needed for this Hindu religious teacher (5)
8 A lone pest mutated into hollow-horned ruminants (9)
13 Distances north or south of the equator expressed in degrees, minutes and seconds of arc (9)
14 First of the prayer – for the male progenitor (3,6)
15 A river in NE Scotland flowing east to the North Sea at Aberdeen (3)
17 The act of moving a newly-built vessel into the water for the first time (9)
19 Three-man one design keelboats, Olympic class, length 8.20m spinnakers large and small (7)
20 A truncated cone painted in chequered colours and numbered with even numbers to indicate the port hand side of a channel (3,4)
22 Said of a vessel which swings from side to side in a seaway (5)
23 The positive electrode (5)
24 To use a rod and line for fishing (5)

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