| Altitude Adjustment | Our 52’ cockpit motor yacht |
| Anchorage | Somewhere favorable to drop anchor |
| Bathymetry | Topography of the ocean floor |
| Beam | The width of the boat at its widest point |
| Bow/Fore Deck | Front of the boat |
| Cleat | A metal fitting used to tie boats to docks |
| Displacement | The water displaced by a boat, equal to the weight of the boat |
| Draft/Draw | The distance between the waterline and deepest point of the boat |
| Fender | Rubber airbags used to hold boats off of hard surfaces like docks or other boats to avoid damage |
| Galley | Kitchen |
| Hatch | Windows |
| Head | Bathroom |
| ICW | Intracoastal Waterway |
| Keel | Center line of a vessels hull, can be weighted to increase stability |
| Knots | A measure of speed for watercraft, 1 knot = 1.15mph |
| Lines | Ropes |
| List | A boat’s lean to one side or the other, weight isn’t properly distributed |
| Pilothouse/Helm | Where the boat is steered/controlled from |
| Port | Left |
| Props | The propulsion device that moves watercraft |
| Salon | Livingroom |
| Scope | The angle of the anchor chain between the anchor and the bow of the boat |
| Skiff | A small boat used to ferry people and supplies to and from a larger boat |
| Snubber | A device used to lower the scope of the chain and take tension off of the windlass |
| Stage | To prepare to cross, anchoring close to the crossing point in preparation of travel |
| Starboard | Right |
| Stateroom | Bedroom |
| Stern/Aft Deck | Back of the boat |
| Tide | Rise and fall of the oceans caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon |
| Wake | Waves caused by a vessel disturbing water it moves through, intensifies with speed |
| Windlass | A winch used to retrieve anchors |