| Sailing terms beginning with P |
| Painter |
| A rope used for a mooring, particularly on a dinghy. |
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| Pay off |
| Allow the boat turn to leeward. |
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| Piling |
| A thick post supporting or mooring a dock or pier. It is deep inside the seabed, and it projects above the water
level. |
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| Pintle |
| Part of a rudder hinge that fits into a gudgeon. |
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| Port side |
| The left side of the boat. |
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| Port Tack |
| Sailing with the wind coming over the port bow. |
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| Pram |
| Dinghy without a stem, but the planks met at a point at gunwhale level or on a bow board like a transom. A Mirror dinghy is
a pram type boat. |
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| Pulpit |
| Metal tubular guard rail at the bow. |
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