A sea running in a direction contrary to the wind, which can be confused and dangerous.

Also rubbing strake or rub strake. An applied or thickened member at the rail, running the length of the boat; serves to protect the hull when alongside a pier or another boat.

A synthetic rubber frequently used for vessel and liquid filter element gasket.

A time or a date draft that has been accepted by the buyer (the drawee) for payment at maturity.

(1) A false keel. (2) The projection of the keel abaft the stern frame where the spindle of the rudder rests.

A type of furnace or reactor in which fuel particles are combusted while suspended in a stream of hot gas.

An endowment assurance, on the life of a child, which can be taken as cash at maturity or converted.

An aneroid barometer with a scale graduated in altitude instead of pressure units.

Adjustable stays used to support and control tension on the mast when the wind is from abaft the beam; temporary backstays used to stabilize the mast and prevent undue flexing due to the pumping action of the sea.

Path through open water used for commercial vessel passage and so noted on chart

This rather grand term refers to various things that companies can do which affect the number of.

Unforeseeable events, beyond the control of participants in a contract, which may excuse either side.

A buoy secured to a permanent anchor sunk deeply into the bottom.

To sail too close to the wind so that the sails start to luff.

To take in the slack and secure the standing rigging.

The setting of the price (which then remains fixed) for forward dealing. This occurs at the time.

The permanent ownership of land or buildings which can be legally passed on to heirs and the most.

To give the steersman the de-sired course to be steered.

A flexible strip used for fairing lines.

Structural members on the longitudinal sides of the base of the container.