This encourages box and stern to keep doing what they're doing and will spin the boat smartly. In the unlikely event that you or any crewperson ever falls overboard, yellow or bright orange is a lot easier to see in the water than green. Never ground the boat on a full or falling tide, because the water will soon fall out from under it. Cordage is the general term used to refer to all the ropes, lines, anchor rodes, etc. used aboard a boat. A rode is a line attached to an anchor.
Sheets are lines used to tension sails.
Some canoes are equipped with oarlocks and can be rowed even more easily than paddled. Rowing lacks the silent grace of paddling, but it puts two blades to work rather than one and requires less skill than solo paddling. Volume , as it's applied to kayaks, refers to the total area enclosed by the outer hull. It's a way of measuring the buoyancy of one kayak design against another. If you see a red light and a white light on an approaching boat, it's going to pass port side to.