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• Radar: Extremely realistic kind of electronic game often found on larger sailboats.
  -- from "Sailing" by Henry Beard and Roy Mckie...
• Battery: Electrochemical storage device capable of lighting an incandescent lamp of a wattage about equal to that of a refrigerator bulb for a period of 15 minutes after having been charged for 2 hours.
  -- from "Sailing" by Henry Beard and Roy Mckie...
• Aneroid Barometer: Meteorological instrument which sailors often use to confirm the onset of bad weather.
  Its readings, together with heavy rain, severe rolling, high winds, dark skies, and a deep cloud cover, indicate the presence of a storm....
• Berth: Any horizontal surface whose total area does not exceed one half of the surface area of an average person at re
  onto which at least one liter of some liquid seeps during any 12-hour period, and above which there are not less than 10 kilograms of improperly secured objects....
• Chronometer: Precision instrument which registers sharp impacts by displaying a telltale spiderweb pattern on its glass face
  by the absence of a normal ticking sound when held to the ear, or by the presence of small, loose pieces moving around within its case when shaken....
• Sometimes, you just gotta say "Screw it, I'm going sailing.
• You and me we're going nowhere slowly And we gotta get away from the past There's nothing wrong with going nowhere baby But we should be going nowhere fast Everybody's going nowhere slowly They're only fighting for the chance to be last There's nothing wrong with going nowhere baby But we should be going nowhere fast It's so much better going nowhere fast.
  .. -- Nowhere Fast, Meat Loaf, _Bad Attitude_...
• Sailing: A form of mast transit.
• ec.boats: we go sailing virtually every day