Basic terminology

The front of a boat is called

• Stern

• Bow

• Heads

• Port

The back of the boat is called

• Bow

• Starboard

• Stern

• Hull

The right side of the boat

• Port

• Aft

• right

• Starboard

Wake

• The distance from the waterline to the deck of a pleasure craft

• disturbed water around and behind a moving pleasure craft

• A warning issues by the Government of Canada

• The waterline at the recommended maximum gross load capacity

Give-way vessel

• A vessel under sail that is not using propelling machinery

• A vessel that is used for pleasure and does not carry passengers

• The vessel which has the right of way

• A vessel that is required by the Collision Regulations to keep out of the way of another vessel

a dividing wall or barrier between compartments of a ship

• keel
• stern
• bulkhead
• mast

the vertical pole to support sails 

• tack
• stern
• hull
• mast

the main body of a large vehicle, such as a boat

• bilge
• hatchboard
• hull
• keel

the top area of a boat where you can walk on

• deck
• porthole
• keel
• stern

the center line of a boat's bottom, on which the rest of the boat is built; the ship's "spine"

• keel
• hatchboard
• galley
• range