1. “Up and at em” – or what a mariner does when he releases hold of a fore bowline (4,2)
4. Surname of Portuguese navigator, inspirer and commander of the first voyage of circumnavigation of the globe (8)
8. Name given a “turn”, when the coils of a sheet on the barrel of a winch become crossed (6)
9. A term often erroneously used to describe a centreboard or dagger plate (4,4)
10. A type of sailing boat of Cape Cod for fishing in shallows but often used for racing and cruising. (7)
12. To kill someone this way about those directions in which the strands of a rope are twisted (4)
14. They are the leaders of the International Yacht Racing Series (4)
15. Maritime term for what are called taps onshore – may be found in the barnyard (5)
17. Name for bottom linings of the bilge-ways, and of rudders, to bring them down to the false keel level (5)
19. Name for the tubes through which the halyards are drawn when hoisting or lowering spinnakers (5)
20. A very nasty way to describe the average level of the water’s tide (4)
23. Descriptive for anything connected to the mainsail or the mainmast (4)
24. A cock-eyed splice with an eastern heading is obscuring of one celestial body by another (7)
27. Said when the anchor cable is taut and leading down to water close to being horizontal (4,4)
28. A cylindrical canvas bag, fastened with a drawstring, in which sailors stow their clothes (3,3)
29. About 50 savages help save a ship and her cargo when she is lost at sea (8)
30. An Eastern heading going directly behind one’s yacht (6)
Below
1. An old word to describe that part of the ship’s company who formed the “port watch” (9)
2. Edit the rise and fall of the sea as a result of the attraction of the sun and moon (4)
3. A silver symbol with one twisting in this large sailing jib whose clew overlaps the mast (5)
4. Name for the dirt-collector under a strainer in the bilge system (3,3)
5. Either way Otto has a soldier’s head in a European space probe which visited Halley’s comet (6)
6. An old obsolete term for occasional violent rolls to leeward when sailing at sea (3, 7)
7. Those points on a radio detection finder at which the signals lose volume and fade away (5)
11. Large casks for the transportation of wines, equal to two pipes or four hogsheads or 252 gallons (4)
13. A “type” of yacht rig or sloop with the forestay extending only part of the way up the mast, hence 3/4 rig (10)
16. Name given to any male person born on deck, near or between the guns, in the days of sail (3,2,1,3)
18. Initially sand cays up the eastern coast of the United States have a valuable small food fish (4)
21. A fish with a red tail piece, fished either wet or dry popular all over the world in fly fishing (3,3)
22. Celebrated British underwriters and insurers of marine shipping and worlwide yachting fraternities (6)
23. Long piers or breakwaters which form part of the defences of harbours or ports (5)
25. The forward edges of ships’ bows into which side plates or timbers are joined (5)
26. Tables with no extremities for our sailor who is rated to be seaworthy (4)
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