See Expiry Dates.

Area to be Avoided.

Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp-Gent Range

ZUMACA. Small sailing coaster from the River Plate estuary and the adjacent waters of Brazil. (Kerchove)

Reid Vapor Pressure

Single Buoy Mooring

A type of florescent light ballast that uses a magnetic core to regulate the voltage of a florescent lamp.

Across. Athwart-ships. Across the line of the vessel's keel. Athwart-hawse. Across the direction of a vessel's head. Across her cable.

Anchor Handling Tug.

AWOL is an acronym for "absent without leave" or "absent without official leave". AWOL may also refer to: In film: * Lionheart (1990 film), known in the UK as A.W.O.L. Absent Without Leave, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme * A.W.O.L. (1972 ...

The curvature of an object such as a sail, keel or deck. Usually used when referring to an objects aerodynamic or hydrodynamic properties. The weather decks of ships are rounded up or arched in an athwartship direction for the purpose of draining any wate ...

Freight, Demurrage, And Deadfreight

Antwerp-Hamburg Range

Free Discharge

SAID [sic] of the wind when it changes. Also, to slack a cable and let it run out. (See PAY.) To veer and haul, is to haul and slack alternately on a rope, as in warping, until the vessel or boat gets headway.

The situation of the sails when the wind presses their surfaces against the mast, and tends to force the vessel astern.

Vessel Experience Factor

Laycan (Layday Canceling Date)

On or within the ship

The person to whom is given the use of the whole of the carrying capacity of a ship for the transportation of cargo or passengers to a stated port for a specified time.