Halyard

Holding ground

The character of the seabed in an anchorage — e.g. mud, sand, weed, rock — which determine…

Heave

To throw — usually a line.

Hull

The main body of the vessel, excluding the rig, spars, sails, and appendages.

Hydrogenerator

A towed or transom-mounted propeller-driven generator that extracts electrical energy from…

Hove to

Describing a vessel that has completed the heaving-to process and is sitting more or less …

Hard a-lee

(Also 'helm's a-lee', 'lee-oh', 'lee-ho') The skipper's command telling the crew that the …