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Careening a sailing vessel
Ship

A ship is a large watercraft that floats on water. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size. Ships may be found on lakes, seas, and rivers and they allow for a variety of activities, such as the ferry or cargo ships, fishing, cruise ship, Coast guard, and warship....
 means to beach
Beach (nautical)

Beaching a Ship is to lay it ashore, or ground it deliberately. This is more usual with small flat-bottomed boats. Larger ships may be beached deliberately, for instance in an emergency a damaged ship might be beached to prevent it sinking in deep water....
 it at high tide
Tide

Tides are the rising of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the oceans. Tides cause changes in the depth of the marine and estuary water bodies and produce oscillating currents known as tidal streams, making prediction of tides important for coastal navigation ....
 in order, usually, to expose one side or another of the ship's hull
Hull (watercraft)

A hull is the watertight body of a ship or boat. It is a central concept in floating vessels as it provides the buoyancy that keeps the vessel from sinking....
 for maintenance below the water line when the tide goes out. Small boats, as in the photo, need not always be laid over.

The process could be assisted by securing a top halyard
Halyard

In sailing, a halyard or halliard is a line that is used to hoist a sail, a flag or a Yard . The term Halyard comes from the phrase - to 'Haul yards'....
 to a fixed object such as a tree or rock to pull the mast
Mast (sailing)

The mast of a sailing ship is a tall, vertical, or near vertical, spar, or arrangement of spars, which supports the sails. Large ships have several masts, with the size and configuration depending on the style of ship....
 over as far as possible. Maintenance might include repairing damage caused by dry rot
Dry rot

Dry rot refers to the decay of timber in buildings and other wooden structures caused by certain fungi. In other fields, the term has also been applied to the decay of crop plants by fungi and the deterioration of rubber....
 or cannon
Cannon

A cannon is any tubular piece of artillery, that uses gunpowder or other usually explosive-based propellants to launch a projectile over a distance....
 shot, tar
Tar

Tar is modified resin produced from the wood and roots of pine by destructive distillation under pyrolysis. It is a viscosity black liquid. Production and trade in tar was a major contributor in the economies of Northern Europe and Colonial America....
ring the exterior to reduce leakage, or removing biofouling
Biofouling

Biofouling or biological fouling is the undesirable accumulation of microorganisms, plants, algae, and/or animals on wetted structures....
 organisms such as barnacle
Barnacle

A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the Subphylum Crustacean, and is hence distantly related to crabs and lobsters....
s to increase the ship's speed.






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Careening a sailing vessel
Ship

A ship is a large watercraft that floats on water. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size. Ships may be found on lakes, seas, and rivers and they allow for a variety of activities, such as the ferry or cargo ships, fishing, cruise ship, Coast guard, and warship....
 means to beach
Beach (nautical)

Beaching a Ship is to lay it ashore, or ground it deliberately. This is more usual with small flat-bottomed boats. Larger ships may be beached deliberately, for instance in an emergency a damaged ship might be beached to prevent it sinking in deep water....
 it at high tide
Tide

Tides are the rising of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the oceans. Tides cause changes in the depth of the marine and estuary water bodies and produce oscillating currents known as tidal streams, making prediction of tides important for coastal navigation ....
 in order, usually, to expose one side or another of the ship's hull
Hull (watercraft)

A hull is the watertight body of a ship or boat. It is a central concept in floating vessels as it provides the buoyancy that keeps the vessel from sinking....
 for maintenance below the water line when the tide goes out. Small boats, as in the photo, need not always be laid over.

The process could be assisted by securing a top halyard
Halyard

In sailing, a halyard or halliard is a line that is used to hoist a sail, a flag or a Yard . The term Halyard comes from the phrase - to 'Haul yards'....
 to a fixed object such as a tree or rock to pull the mast
Mast (sailing)

The mast of a sailing ship is a tall, vertical, or near vertical, spar, or arrangement of spars, which supports the sails. Large ships have several masts, with the size and configuration depending on the style of ship....
 over as far as possible. Maintenance might include repairing damage caused by dry rot
Dry rot

Dry rot refers to the decay of timber in buildings and other wooden structures caused by certain fungi. In other fields, the term has also been applied to the decay of crop plants by fungi and the deterioration of rubber....
 or cannon
Cannon

A cannon is any tubular piece of artillery, that uses gunpowder or other usually explosive-based propellants to launch a projectile over a distance....
 shot, tar
Tar

Tar is modified resin produced from the wood and roots of pine by destructive distillation under pyrolysis. It is a viscosity black liquid. Production and trade in tar was a major contributor in the economies of Northern Europe and Colonial America....
ring the exterior to reduce leakage, or removing biofouling
Biofouling

Biofouling or biological fouling is the undesirable accumulation of microorganisms, plants, algae, and/or animals on wetted structures....
 organisms such as barnacle
Barnacle

A barnacle is a type of arthropod belonging to infraclass Cirripedia in the Subphylum Crustacean, and is hence distantly related to crabs and lobsters....
s to increase the ship's speed. A particularly well-protected area might be called "Careening Bay" to the locals. Pirates would often careen their ships because they had no access to dry dock
Dry dock

A drydock is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform....
s. A secluded bay would suffice and this is where they would careen their ships for necessary repairs and/or hull cleaning. This would make the ships faster, and therefore more capable of overtaking prize vessels.

At one extreme of the spectrum was the ancient practice of beaching a ship on a shingle beach
Shingle beach

A shingle beach is a beach which is armor with pebbles or small to medium sized cobbles. Typically the stone composition may grade from characteristic sizes ranging from two to 200 millimeters in diameter....
 with the goal of using wave action and the shingle to scour the hull.

Careening in popular culture


Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
's Treasure Island
Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island....
 contains a reference to the practice: the Hispaniola is purposely beached on the island. Although the purpose of this is to avoid the uncertainties of anchoring her with nobody aboard, that a piratical crew member would be quick with the suggestion—and the means of freeing the ship later—shows his familiarity with the practice.