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Terms for sailing

I need to learn some of the most common terms used on a sailing boat:

Swedish
English
French
Spanish

akter
stern, aft 
le arrière, la poupe
la popa

ankare
anchor
la ancre
la anchla

babord
port
bâbord
el babord

boj
buoy 
un buoy 

boya

bom
boom
bôme
bumo (?)

dirk
 
 
 

durk
 
 
 

fall
 
la drisse
 

att falla
 
au portant
 

fock
 
le fock
 

för
bow
la proue
 

försegel
 
 
 

gajar (skot till spinnaker)
spinnaker sheet
l’écoute de spinnaker
 

genua
 
génois
 

att gippa
gybing
empanner
 

knop
knots
noeud 
 

att kryssa
 
louvoyer (zigzaguer)
 

köl
keel
quille 
 

latta
lath
 
 

lova (att styra upp båten mot vinden)
heading up
border
 

lovart (båtens vindsida)
 
au mûr
 


lee
abriter du vent
 

läns
running downwind
vent arrière
 

mast
mast
le mât
mástil

ombord
aboard
 
 

att reva
reef, [...]

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Wicked Awesome

Saturday afternoon I went sailing on the Geneva lake, with some friends (Irmgard, Karen and Jean-Pierre).
All the crew members were biochemists except me, but I am still right in the middle of reading Molecules of Emotion where Candace Pert is in the process of explaining the feedback loops of the peptides, in an interesting simile:
The psychosomatic [...]

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