See Advance Payment Guarantee, Bid Bond/Guarantee, Performance Bond/Guarantee.

On larger sailing vessels, the space between the foremast and mainmast where spare spars were stored.

Are the connections between the headers and the work station.

A storage tank where sewage is stored until it can be removed to a treatment facility.

An outrigger used to hold a block clear of a mast or of the ship's side.

The portion of the flow stream which has already passed through the system or the portion of the system located after a filter or separator/filter.

The same as FOB named inland carrier, except the buyer pays the transportation charge and the seller reduces the invoice by a like amount.

Is a process taking place without any heat exchange with the surroundings.

Is a compression in which the temperature of a gas remains constant.

Side stays from the masthead to the rail..

The officer in charge of the watch.

To take down a sail quickly; the entire action of getting a sail out of the wind and furling it.

Small, cake-shaped pieces of ice floating down rivers.

Tools that operate by air pressure.

The use of solar thermal energy or solar electricity to power a cooling appliance. There are five basic types of solar cooling technologies: absorption cooling, which can use solar thermal energy to vaporize the refrigerant; desiccant cooling, which can u ...

A private ship operating under license from a government against the merchant shipping of an enemy.

To take in the slack and secure the standing rigging.

(1) The portion of an anchor that digs securely into the bottom, holding the boat in place. (2) The two triangular parts which make up a whale's tail.

The forward part of the bow which overhangs the keel.

This type of insurance offers the shipper the broadest coverage available, covering against all losses that may occur in transit.