The succession of stages through which water passes on the ground and in the atmosphere: evaporation from land or bodies of water, condensation to form clouds, precipitation, accumulation in the soil or in bodies of water, and re-evaporation.

Det Norkse Veritas classification AS Norwegian Classification Society

Gilded carving and scroll work decorating the hulls of ships.

See Multiple Containerload Shipment.

The area between opposing shipping lanes, restricted to most navigation except for crossing with caution

Also known as the square knot, it is formed by two half hitches in which the ends always fall in line with the outer parts. This knot is used to loosely tie lines around the bundles of sail that are not in use after reefing.

Surface on which the bearing seal rides in an oil lubricated tailshaft bearing.

Free of Particular Average

Grounded

A power of attorney which, subject to conditions and safeguards continues in force even after the.

A slang term for an open-top trailer or container with a tarpaulin cover.

Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (API)

Remove a boat from the water.

Port Inboard

Safety Equipment Certificate

A stay leading from one mast, such as the main mast to another, such as the mizzen mast.

Small masses of drift ice with waterways in which a vessel can sail.

The power available from the rise and fall of ocean tides. A tidal power plant works on the principal of a dam or barrage that captures water in a basin at the peak of a tidal flow, then directs the water through a hydroelectric turbine as the tide ebbs.

The shape of the phase power at a certain frequency and amplitude.

See: 'contract.