- windward
- windward sailing
- windward set
- windward tide
- wine of height
- wing
- wing-and-wing
- wingers
- wings
- wing up ballast, to
- wing-wale
- winnold-weather
- winter-fish
- winter-quarters
- winter-solstice
- wiper
- wiper-shaft
- wire-micrometer
- wire-rope
- wisbuy laws
- wishes
- wishy-washy
- with
- with a will
- withershins
- witheys
- within-board
- without
- with the sun
- temoins
- witnesses
- wittee-wittee
- woare
- wobble, to
- wold
- wolf
- wolf-fish
- wolying
- wonder-chone
- wongs
- wood, to
- wood and wood
- wooden buoys
- wood-ends
- wooden walls
- wooden-wings
- wood-locks of the rudder
- wood-mulls
- wood-sheathing
- woof
- woolders
- woolding
- wool-packs
- word
- work, to
- work aback
- work a ship, to
- work double-tides, to
- working a day's work
- working a lunar
- working an observation
- working parties
- working to windward
- working up
- works
- work up junk, to
- worm
- worm-eaten
- worms
- wrack
- wrack-rider
- wrain-bolt
- wrain-staff
- wrasse
- wreck
- wreckage
- wreckers
- wreck-free
- wright's sailing
- wring a mast, to
- wrong, to
- wrong way
- wrung-heads
- zebec
- xebec
- xerafeem
- xeroonitz
- xero-potamo
- xugia
- xylostroma
- yacht
- yacht club, royal
- yam
- yankee
- yard
- yard-arm
- yard-arm and yard-arm
- yard-arm cleats
- yard-arm piece
- yard-rope