Meteorological information issued by a watch office concerning the occurrence or forecast of weather phenomena which may affect the safety of aircraft operations.

A transaction which leads to a chargeable gain and which in turn promotes the issuing of a.

Purchase of shares without entitlement to current dividends. This entitlement remains with the.

In reference to a wind energy conversion device, the ratio of rotor blade surface area to the frontal, swept area that the rotor passes through.

See: 'waiver of.

At or in the direction of the bow. Also the fore part of the ship.

A large reinforced eye in the leech and clew of a sail that allows a line to fasten to it; e.g., the reef cringle and clew cringle.

A sail placed forward of the mast, such as a jib; the sail set from the foremast on a schooner; the lowest square sail on the foremast of Square Riggers.

The difference between the diameter of a shaft rod, etc., and that of the hole in which it works.

To take the opposite tack when sailing to windward with another yacht.

Systeme International. The international system of unit measurement.

(G7)The seven foremost industrial countries outside what was the communist bloc. They are USA, Germany,.

In a square rigged ship, the act of hauling the head sheets to windward and laying the head-yards flat aback in order to bring the ships head out of the wind while tacking. This is done when helm action alone is insufficient.

Cabin; sleeping compartment.

Contingent Valuation Method

Energy which a substance possesses because of the motion and configuration of its atoms, molecules, and subatomic particles.

A layer of dust built up on an air filter.

Still, seaworthy, able.

A curve illustrating the variation or spectral irradiance with wavelength.

Loose and broken ice in bays, or along exposed edges of floes.