| French | English |
| bateau à voiles (m) | Sailboat |
| vent | wind |
| cote | coast |
| baie | bay |
| cape | cape |
| voile | Sail |
| anse | cove |
| appartement | cabin/berth |
| apparaux | hardware |
| avant | forward |
| aviron | oar |
| came | oar |
| au lof | luff |
| bâbord | port |
| renvese | to tack |
| tournai | to tack |
| change le bord | to tack |
| rendre le bord | to anchor |
| bonneau | buoy |
| bordage | plank |
| faire courir bouline | to be sentanced to run the gauntlet |
| bourrasque | iceburgh |
| bourrasque | squall |
| bouter à l'eau | to launch |
| billoys | deadwood |
| bittes | bits |
| bon-fiais | fresh gale |
| bonnace | smooth seas |
| boucle | shackle |
| brandle | hammok |
| brasse | fathom |
| brume | fog |
| cabillot | toggel, belaying pin |
| corde | rope |
| beaupré | bowspirit |
| Longueur | length |
| gouvernail (m) | rudder |
| gouvernail (m) | beam |
| tirant d'eau | draught(draft) |
| tirant d'air | mast height |
| personnelle | private |
| cabane | cabin |
| espars | spars |
| étai de misaine | fore-stay |
| étai | stays |
| colle | glue |
| drisse | halyard |
| amovible | removable |
| permanent | permanent |
| adieu-va | coming about! |
| cat boat | cat boat |
| ancre | anchor |
| un bout-dehors | boom |
| foc (m) | jib |
| capitaine | skipper |
| contre-plaqué | plywood |
| fibre de verre | fiberglass |
| premier compagnon | first mate |
| lisses | stringers or rails |
| poulie à ringot | becket (block) |
| poulie à violon | fiddle block |
| poulie | block(pully) |
| coton | cotton |
| laiton | brass |
| acier inoxydable | stainless steel |
| trappe | hatch |
| bas de page | trailer |
| rove | wheel |
| tourillon | turnbuckle |
| acajou | mahogany |
| pin | pine |
| chêne | oak |
| cèdre | cedar |
| étoupe | oakam |
| impeccable | spruce |
| étagère | shelf |
| balestron | gaff/topsail boom |
| corne | gaff |
| charpente | framing |
| galva | galvanized steel (slang) |
| hublot | porthole |
| lattage | lathe |
| main courante | grab rail |
| pavois | bulwark |
| grand pavois | fully dressed |
| puisard | sump, lowest point in bilge |
| tableau | transom |
| taquet | cleat |
| taquet coinceur | clam, cam, or jam cleat |
| taquer d'amarrage | morring cleat |
| ecoute | sheet |
| varangue | floor |
| voile à traite quarré | square sail |
| tout le mond haut! | all hands on deck |
| degré de latitude | a degree of latitude |
| degré de longitude | a degree of longitude |
| désaffourcher | to unmoor |
| désancrer | to weigh anchor and depart from port |
| démarrer | to unmoor, weigh anchor, to put to sea |
| destination | destination |
| devis | line drawing, a scheme with dimentions |
| détroit | a streight, narrow channel, or an isthmus |
| ebe/jussant | ebb-tide |
| engrener la pompe | to pump the water out of the bottom |
| estime | dead-reckoning |
| estrapontin | hammok |
| étrave | stem |
| fabriquer | to build a ship |
| faire eau | to leak |
| bouline | bowline |
| aller à fond | to sink |
| forban/pirate | pirate |
| harpin | boat-hook |
| hisse | hoist (command) |
| jetter l'ancre | to drop anchor |
| jonque | chinese junk |
| lof tout | put the helm alee (command) |
| maître de ports | harbormaster |
| maline | spring-tide |
| mal de mer | sea-sickness |
| manoeuvres | rigging |
| mantures | rolling waves of ocean |
| marée | tide |
| la marée est haut | the tide is high |
| morte marée | neap-tide, dead neap |
| marin | sea-faring man |
| mât d'artimon | mizen-mast |
| mât de misaine | fore-mast |
| le grande mât | main mast |
| la mar étale | smooth seas |
| la mar mugit | roaring sea, turbulent |
| la mar roule | rolling sea |
| mettre à la voile | to set sail |
| morne | cape/ promontory |
| mouiller l'ancre de toüei | to moor |
| naufrage | shipwreck |
| ouage | wake |
| pagaie | paddle |
| pais somme | shallow, a shoal |
| faire la parade | to dress a boat |
| passer | to be lost at sea |
| pot à feu | stink pot…but a real stink pot, not sure if its an insult |
| quai | wharf |
| quaiage | ketch |
| quille | keel |
| rame | oar |
| résine | resin |
| A la route! | steer the course! (Command) |
| sancir | to sink |
| scorbut | scurvy |
| semelles/derives | lee boards |
| tourmente | a tempest |
| tempête | a tempest |
| tille | cuddy cabin |
| timon, barre de gouvernail | tiller |
| timonier | helmsman |
| tour à feu/phare | lighthouse |
| vagues | waves |
| vent d'amont | land wind |
| vent d'aval | sea wind |
| vent alizé | trade wind |
| lantine | lanteen |
| voiles d'étai | stay sail |
| zéphire | zepher, west wind |
| amarrer | to moor |
| remorque | trailer |
| tribord | starboard |
| volant (m) | steering wheel |
| habitation transportable | trailer sailer |
| hauteur sous barrots | headroom |
| imper(méable) | waterproof |
| inox | stainless steel (slang) |
| jetée | jetty |
| journal de bord | log |
| lisse de pavois | taff-rail |
| longueur coque | hull length |
| marée basse | low tide |
| petit tirant d'eau (PTE) | Shoal draught/shallow draft |
| larguer | beam |
| chantier (f) | boatyard, building site |
| longueur flottassions | waterline length |
| déployer une voile | to set a sail, to heave out |
| pont | deck |