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face piece
Decorative leather flap fitted with
large brasses. It hangs centrally down the horse's forehead, between the
eyes.
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT equine equipment
BT equine powered propulsion system component
false cratch
A roughly triangular timber
framework fitted across the hold of a canal narrow boat to support the running
planks, usually sited behind the deck board.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT cratch
NT cratch board (horizontal)
NT deck board
NT running planks
fastener
Grouping term for fasteners associated with
inland waterways. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL components
BT <component by general context>
NT back flap
NT bolt
NT nail
NT pin
NT rivet
NT rove
NT rudder pintle
feed bag
Heavy duty reinforced small sack of
woven jute with suspension straps - as used generally for carthorses. Common on
London area canals.
UF nose bag
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT equine maintenance equipment
feed basket
Woven willow work basket. Round in
shape with a flat bottom. Commonly used on the River Wey navigation, Lower Grand
Union Canal and Leicester Line of the Old Union Canal.
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT equine maintenance equipment
feed bowl
Heavy, large galvanised oval
container for horse feed. Fitted with straps, usually leather, to allow the
horse to feed on the move. Favoured on the Regents Canal for Shire horses.
UF nose bowl
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT equine maintenance equipment
feed tin
Light weight tinsmithed round
container for horse feed, fitted with straps, usually leather, to allow the
horse to feed on the move. Common throughout the narrow canal system.
UF feed can
UF nose tin
CL tools and equipment
CL containers
BT equine maintenance equipment
Fen lighter
Barges working in gangs up to 5
together, size varies from fen boats to larger Great Ouse varieties, barges up
to 45ft in length.
CL transport
BT barges designed to work in multiple units
BT lighter
RT house lighter
Fen punt
Fenland open craft up to 18ft in
length.
fender
Protective and/or decorative pad or
buffer fastened to a boat to prevent either damage to the boat or moorings.
Often made of rope.
CL tools and equipment
BT boat equipment
NT bow fender
NT stem fender
NT stern fender
NT tip cat fender
RT ropework
ferry
Any craft used to move goods and
passengers over a set route. Principally crossing from one side of a canal or
river to the other.
CL transport
BT passenger vessel
fibreglass boat
A boat whose main construction
material is fibreglass.
CL transport
BT <craft by material>
fid
A tapered, usually wooden, pin used in
opening the strands of a rope when splicing rope ends or carrying out decorative
ropework.
CL tools and equipment
BT rope working equipment
NT hand fid
fire fighting vessel
A craft designed to fight
fire as its sole job.
UF fire float
CL transport
BT service craft
fishing dinghy
Wooden rowing boat used to carry
anglers.
CL transport
BT recreational craft
fixed line powered boat
A boat whose motive
power source is provided by a fixed line.
CL transport
BT <craft by motive power>
flattener
A shaping tool with a long wire
handle for use with hot metal. It has a flat face fro 'flattening' the metal
when it is struck.
UF flatter
CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment
float type gauging stick
A gauging stick
consisting of a copper tube with a bracket where it could rest on the gunwhale.
This bracket contained a float and a staff. This would protude out of the tube
at eye level to indictae the number of 'dry inches'.
CL tools and equipment
BT gauging stick
BT measuring equipment
float (boat)
Craft with no hold and an overall
deck, used to carry cargoes too heavy or too big to go in a hold.
UF pontoon
CL transport
BT barge
float (component)
The timbers that bind
together the upper end of a rudder blade.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
RT rudder
floor
The lowest part of the framing of a
vessel.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
RT keel (boat component)
NT keelson
NT top timber
flush decked trow
A term used to describe a
large wooden trow with a flat bottom, but with a full length level deck with
hatches and full length bulwarks that traded in the Severn estuary below
Gloucester.
CL transport
BT <trow by hull type>
fly boat
Became a term for boats working flat
out aropund the clock, ie. 'working fly'. Usually horse drawn boats.Fly boats
often have finer lines which allow them to slip through the water faster. Some
loaded as little as 15 tons with a very rounded bilge.
CL transport
BT cargo vessel
NT Leeds and Liverpool fly boat
foghorn
A device used to warn boats and ships
in fog.
CL tools and equipment
BT horn
NT ship's foghorn
folding gauging stick
A gauging stick that
folded up for easier portability.
CL tools and equipment
BT gauging stick
BT measuring equipment
fore cabin
The (usually) small cabin set into
the bow of a boat.
CL components
BT above decks watercraft component
fore roller
A hand cranked roller on a keel,
used for working the sails.
CL components
BT rigging component
fore stay
A rope or wire running from the head
of a mast towards the bow of a vessel to support the mast.
CL components
BT stay
RT anchor lamp
fore thwart
The seat placed across the width
(beam) of a rowing boat at the bow.
foresail
A usually triangular sail, fitted at
or near the bows of a vessel.
CL components
BT sail component
forming and shaping equipment
Equipment used for
forming and shaping in an inland waterways context. Do not use for indexing. Use
a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT <tools and equipment by process>
NT blacksmith's equipment
NT cutting equipment
NT drilling equipment
NT forming equipment
NT piercing equipment
forming equipment
Equipment used for forming in an
inland waterways context. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT forming and shaping equipment
NT adze
Forth and Clyde scow
Scow 60 ft long and 13ft 6
inches wide for use on the Forth and Clyde or Monklands Canal.
forward steering cruiser
Motor cruiser steered
from the front.
founding equipment
Equipment used for founding in an
inland waterways context. Do not use for indexing. Use a more specific term.
CL tools and equipment
BT <tools and equipment by process>
NT bellows
NT pattern
NT tue iron
frame
Part of the 'skeleton' of a vessel to
which the outer skin is fastened.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
NT cant frame
NT reverse frame
NT stern frame
RT floor
NT futtocks
NT keel (boat component)
NT keelson
NT top timber
french chalk vice
Device for holding french
chalk used to mark steel, stone or, timber with a straight line. Used by
boatbuilders.
CL tools and equipment
BT holding and gripping equipment
frontloader
A boat in which the coxswain lies
in the bows.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
frost cog
A screw in hardened point for horse
shoes to provide grip on frozen ground or icy brickwork in winter. Fitted with a
special tool into threaded holes in the shoe.
CL tools and equipment
BT equine maintenance equipment
RT frost nail
frost nail
Special hardened pointed horseshoe
nail to provide the same grip as a frost cog. Can be left in the shoe as it
wears away becoming an ordinary nail holding the shoe in the hoof.
CL tools and equipment
BT equine maintenance equipment
RT frost cog
full box trow
Trow with the hold built up and
side decks flush with the bow.
fuller
A shaping tool with a long wire handle
for use with hot metal. It is triangular in shape but with a blunt edge for
reducing the thickness of the metal when struck. It can be used in 2 pieces as a
top and bottom fuller.
CL tools and equipment
BT blacksmith's equipment
NT bottom fuller
NT top fuller
funny
A narrow clinker-built boat, mainly used
on the upper reaches of the Thames. It accommodated a single person either for
sculling matches or for training purposes, it had full outriggers and double
ends and was well pointed at bow and stern. It was fairly deep for its length.
NB- showed as inrigged in 'The Book of the Thames', 1859.
CL transport
BT clinker built boat
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
futtock saw
The name of the saws used for
sawing the futtocks in a boat or ship. They consist of a parallel web up to 5
feet long and 1.5 to 4.5 inches wide, coarse teeth shaped for ripping and
perforations at the end to be held in a frame.
CL tools and equipment
BT boatbuilding equipment
BT saw
BT shipbuilding equipment
RT futtocks
futtocks
Pieces of timber forming the frame of
a vessel, secured to each other by overlapping and fastening.
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
RT frame
NT futtock saw
NT top timber
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