A synthetic polyester material.

Pleasure Yacht.

Sacrificial anodes placed on a vessel to prevent electrolysis of vital metal parts.

National Committee on International Trade Documentation.

A discharge limit applied to manufacturing and commercial establishments in which only normal human sanitary wastewaters may be discharged to the municipal sewerage system. All other types of wastewater, such as that water used in manufacturing processes, ...

A chain or line (rope) bent to the anchor.

Abbreviation for "Dangerous and Hazardous" cargo.

Similar to a centerboard, except that it is raised and lowered vertically in a trunk rather than pivoted. Like a keel, daggerboards are used to reduce leeway by preventing a sailboat being pushed sideways by the wind.

System to Automate and Integrate Logistics.

A vertical structural element that holds up a roof, encloses part or all of a room, or stands by itself to hold back soil.

Loaded aboard a vessel.

Pressure Vacuum (Valve)

Time charter

Interpretations and Insstructions.

Blocks on which the keel of a vessel rests when being built, or when she is in dry dock.

Secondary forestay supporting the leading edge of the mast and used to flatten the mainsail in building winds.

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Abbreviation for "Doing Business As." A legal term for conducting business under a registered name.

To back an anchor, is to carry out a smaller one ahead of the one by which the vessel rides, to take off some of the strain. To back a sail, is throw it aback. To back and fill, is alternately to back and fill the sails.

That which is loaded into a ship. The act of loading.