SAR Simulation Model

Established the standard basis for adjusting general average and stated the rules for adjusting claims.

Timbers used to support the deck planking of a wooden ship; also for supporting hatches.

Aluminium Alloy Pleasure Yacht.

Bermuda (Flag)

American Society for Testing and Materials.

A fractographic term describing ductile fracture that occurs through the formation and coalescence of microvoids along the fracture path. The fracture surface of such a ductile fracture appears dimpled when observed at high magnification and usually is mo ...

The flow of air down a flue/chimney and into a house caused by low indoor air pressure that can occur when using several fans or fireplaces and/or if the house is very tight.

Maritime Environment Protection CommitteeIMO branch dealing, among other, with the construction of tankers. The number of the meeting is often added to the acronym so that in the Autumn 2000 the next meeting will be MEPC46.

Mean Low Water

Foundered

Same as electromotive force series.

To stop a boat and maintain position (with some leeway) by balancing rudder and sail to prevent forward movement, a boat stopped this way is "hove to"; such as when in heavy seas. The idea is to bring the wind onto the weather bow and hold the ship in tha ...

Multipurpose Work Boat.

Aluminium Alloy, High Speed Passenger.

Heavy longitudinal timbers fastened over the keelson. The timbers of the bow and stern are fastened to the deadwood.

A small tube or capillary filled with electrolyte, terminating close to the metal surface under study, and used to provide an ionically conducting path without diffusion between an electrode under study and a reference electrode.

The area of the bow or stern projecting above and beyond a perpendicular from the water line at stem or stern.

Reinforced cringles or thimbles in the sail designed to hold the reefing lines when reefing the sail.

A surface weather observation, made at periodic times, of sky cover, state of the sky, cloud height, atmospheric pressure reduced to sea level, temperature, dew point, wind speed and direction. amount of precipitation, hydrometeors and lithometeors. and s ...