These are the nautical terms I found and their definitions have been taken from dictionary.com:
- Prow: the forepart of a ship or boat; bow.
- Skiff: any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
- Mast: a spar or structure rising above the hull and upper portions of a ship or boat to hold sails, spars, rigging, booms, signals, etc., at some point on the fore-and-aft line, as a foremast or mainmast.
- Helmsman: a person who steers a ship.
- Fathom: a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements
- Keel: a central fore-and-aft structural member in the bottom of a hull, extending from the stem to the sternpost and having the floors or frames attached to it, usually at right angles: sometimes projecting from the bottom of the hull to provide stability.
