On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:13:34 GMT, Rick Tyler wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:43:33 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:

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Bonus definition: "Dead rise" is the angle sloping outwards and up from
the keel to the topsides below the waterline.

And remember that the deck is the part on top of the boat on which you
stand or sit, and the topsides are actually the sides of the boat
between the waterline stripe and the gunwales. Gunwales are the top
edge of the sides.
Hmm. Do yachting definitions differ from military nautical definitions?
When I was required to "go topside" I went up on deck. When I worked chipping &
painting above the waterline & below the gunwales I worked "over the side".

Kiyu