Dear Readers
I created these tracks after recently completing a sailing course.Each track was written from an 80s riff according to the parts of a sail boat.So get down to your local sailing club and talk with the Commodore using these terms and tunes!
Yours Sincerely, POSOWOCO
Want to hear music discovering the world and parts of a sailboat?
All music on here was created by us under our band name "MMM".
This album was created for the demanding technical knowledge of a sailing..
Music, samples and beats by Mark in our new 120 bpm 80's collection called simply 'Sail' made in October 2023.
The music is 80's based with FX and lots of sailing!
A nice walk around the local lake or coast and a chance to identify the parts of a sailboat before your lessons!
- backstay
long lines or cables
reaching from the rear of the vessel to the mast heads
used to support the mast
- boom
a spar used to extend the foot of a for-and-aft sail
- centreboard
a removable keel used to resist leeway
- cunningham
a line invented by Briggs Cunningham
used to control the shape of a sail
- downhaul
a line used to control either a mobile spar
or the shape of a sail
- forestay
long lines or cables
reaching from the front of the vessel to the mast heads
used to support the mast
- gunwhale
the upper edge of the hull
- halyard
ropes used for hoisting a spar with a sail attached; today
a line used to raise the head of any sail
- jib
a triangular staysail at the front of a ship
- kicking strap
a set of blocks and lines or an adjustable pole used to pull the boom down and shape the sail also called a boom vang
- mainsail
the primary sail used for propulsion. The mainsail is also usually the largest sail on the boat
- mainsheet
the mainsail control line used to control the angle of the boom
and thereby the mainsail
- mast
a vertical pole on a ship which supports sails or rigging
- outhaul
a line used to control the horizontal shape of a sail
- rudder
one of the primary controls of a sailboat - when the boat moves forward through the water
the rudder causes friction on one side and changes the direction of the boat
- shroud
the standing rigging running from a mast to the sides of a ships
- spreader
a spar on a sailing boat used to deflect the shrouds to allow them to better support the mast
- tell-tale
a piece of yarn or fabric attached to a sail
used as a guide for trimming (adjusting) a sail
- tiller
attached to a rudder that provides leverage in the form of torque to turn the rudder
- transom
the flat surface forming the stern of a boat
backstay
booma spar used --
centreboarda keel used
cunninghama line
