Abated – something unpleasant to become less intense
Aft – near the stern of the ship
Anchored – moor a ship to the sea bottom
Ashore – on the shore of the land
Atrocious – bad; of a very poor quality
Auxiliary engine – small secondary engine used to board
ships to operate a windlass in the ship
Bashed – strike hard; hit
Bleak – an area of land lacking vegetation
Boom – pole that controls the angle and shape of the sail
Bulged – swell
Bunk – bed
Canvas – a strong unbleached cloth
Capsizing – be overturned in the water
Caricatures – picture of a person; cartoon
Crest – reach the top of a wave
Debris – rubbish
Deck – a floor of a ship
Deflected: turned aside
Deteriorate – get worse
Dinghies – a small boat for recreation with mast or sail
Donned – put on, wore
Dozed off – went off to sleep
Enormous – a very large size
Forestay – a rope to support ship’s foremast
Frightful – very unpleasant or shocking
Gales – A very strong wind
Gigantic – huge; of a big size
Hatch – door
Heave to – to raise or lift with effort
Honing – sharpen, improving
Honing our seafaring skills – improving the skills required
to travel by sea
Hull – the framework of the vessel
Hurled – throw with a great force
Impending – about to happen
Jib – a triangular staysail set forward the mast in a ship
Keel – steel structure along the base of the ship
Knots – a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour,
used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds
Lashed – to hit with a lot of force
Leisure – free time
Loop – a shape produced that bends round and crosses; bent
Mast – a tall upright structure on a boat or ship
Mayday calls –words used to signal ships stuck in a disastrous
situation through radio
Mooring – the ropes, chains, or anchors by or to which a
boat, ship, or buoy is moored
Offshore – situated at the sea some distance from the shore
Oilskins – heavy cotton cloth waterproofed with oil
Ominous silence – unpleasant or threatening silence
Optimistic – hopeful and confident
Paraffin – colorless flammable oil liquid
Pinpricks – a prick caused by a pin
Pinpricks in the vast ocean – the two small islands in the
vast ocean were very tiny like the prick caused by a pin
Respite – a short period of rest
Rigging – the ropes and wires supporting the structure of
the ship
Scrambled – climb; claw one’s way
Seafaring – regularly traveling by sea
Sextant – an instrument with graduated arc of 60 degrees for
taking altitudes and navigation
Shook – past tense of shake (vibrate)
Sloshed – move through liquid with a splashing sound.
Smashed – badly broken
Smashed – shattered or violently broken
Starboard – side of a ship which is on the right side when
one is facing forward
Stark – sharply defined
Stern – the back part of a ship or a boat
Taut – stretched or pulled tightly
Timbers – wood board used in building of a ship
Torrent – a fast moving stream of water
Tousled head – disarranged hair of the narrator’s son,
Jonathan
Tremendous – very great in amount
Voyage – a long journey by sea or space
Wooden-hulled – a watertight body of a ship
Wrenched – pull suddenly, removed
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