Forecastle

Back is a very old word that is found in many dialects and independently or in various compositions belongs to the vocabulary of the international professional sailors. The many different word content all have a common root - the " back ", the " bulge " or " backwards ".

Today is a baked in marinara using either a build up on the foredeck, extending from board to board up to the stem and is bounded above by the forecastle deck, or a table in a chamber in a residential deck or a trade show.

In Middle High German was (ars ) jaw back or buttock; in Middle Dutch was for bak bak and Low German or Back. In English, it still belongs to the vernacular, and in American English we say "back o ' town", if you - want to characterize the unsightly flip side of a city - in the negative.

The old Backbeest - "Back Beast" - was a hearty abuse for women, as it was thought, could only be used to bear, two hundred years ago.

This control device, about four meters long strap with the function of a rudder, which was hinged to the wall board was used on German ships until the 13th century.

As then amidships arranged rudder came into use, which were operated by a tiller, it was common until the 18th century, to relate the rudder commands not on the rudder, but on the tiller. Rudder port! So then meant to lay the tiller to port, whereupon the ship turns to starboard.

From the time of the Anglo-Saxon King Alfred the Great - around the year 900 - the words passed on the port side and steorbord, and into French by the Normans the word has been adopted as Babord.

In Dutch, it was in the Middle Ages Bakboord, back- Bort and storms board Backboord and Stürboord lead to today's words larboard and starboard.

But your name has the baking likely therefore obtained because the shipbuilder the deck beams and thus also the moved deck, which limits the build up, with a bulge, a bar bay sided on the advice of sailors, to drain water on deck quickly. So the deck took the form of back ( Back).

In this lay back on the old sailing ships, the living quarters of the sailors - they were the front of the mast - and succeeded here - ate - it also. Whether the prospect of regular back to work was the cause of this is anybody's guess, anyway also got a table the name back.

Before each trip sometimes even baking was on sailing ships, the crew in baking properties, divided. They mostly consisted of six to ten seamen who made throughout the journey at a particular track.

The Dutch Baksvolk entstammend, this table fellowship was named in the 17th century Packs puple people back in the 18th century, society or baking baking cooperative. All names led around the year 1900 in the Summary Back to class and always identified a specific group of sailors.

According to the Dutch Baksmeester had in each baking shaft a master baker or bakery elder supervision. The members of a jaw shank were called back journeyman or baking math, and later baking colleagues; to each baking shaft mostly owned a bakery boy whose official duty was to pick his jaw shank food, bake them - " Apply " - and after eating " clear up " the back and clean the jaws. In later times the service of the boys in the back forecastle of the baking colleague was gone alternately transmitted the word stem back to the table service itself, as well as the one who had to exercise him, called steward. Strict customs prevailed at times: "If anyone curses in the baking or dirty talk leads, so the baking justice exerted on him; ie: There are quite a few grains of salt thrown to him, which serves as a sign that he has fallen into punishment. It is with this intention constantly a bowl of salt on the back. "

Back as wooden dining bowl is its name from the Latin bacca - received - Water tank.

Last is necessary to state that the waterproof boxes on the inner sides of the shell plating below the Ankerklüsen where you caught it and ran water through scuppers overboard, hot Pißbacken. Pißback also called a miscarriage, and in that time, when the Galion was no longer used to " stünn vörn publish it under de back dat Schitemmer ".

Back holding a sail

If a sail back held or made, it is placed against the wind and is thus on the windward side of the boat or ship. A back holding the sail can be used when depositing to move the ship backwards or rotate in the wind. During a turn, the foresail is briefly back left standing to support the initiated rotation. Even when heave and is accompanied back the headsail.