Companion. A wooden covering over the staircase to a cabin.
Companion-way, the staircase to the cabin.
Companion-ladder. The ladder leading from the poop to the main deck.
Compass. The instrument which tells the course of a vessel.
Compass-timbers are such as are curved or arched.
Concluding-line. A small line leading through the centre of the steps of a rope or Jacob's ladder.
Conning, or Cunning. Directing the helmsman in steering a vessel.
Counter. (See Plate 3.) That part of a vessel between the bottom of the stern and the wing-transom and buttock.
Counter-timbers are short timbers put in to strengthen the counter.
To counter-brace yards, is to brace the head-yards one way and the after-yards another.