As tight as can be pulled by hand.

A movable block and tackle used on board for a variety of purposes, including the handling of cargo in holds.

A watch tackle (small, handy block and tackle for general use).

Dangle a man from one of the yard arms, sometimes by the neck, if the man was to be killed, and sometimes by the toes, if he was merely to be tortured. A severe punishment used aboard sailing ships long ago. Today, a reprimand.

A locker big enough to hang clothes.

A safe anchorage, protected from most storms; may be natural or man-made, with breakwaters and jetties; a place for docking and loading.

An officer who attends to the berthing, etc., of ships in a harbor.

The official who is in charge of a harbor, enforcing all its applicable regulations.

The command given to inform the crew that the helm is being turned quickly to leeward, turning the boat windward

Chromium plated for engineering rather than decorative applicactions.

Turning the wheel or tiller as far as possible

Water that contains certain salts, such as those of calcium or magnesium, which form insoluble deposits in boilers and form precipitates with soap.

To sail a boat closer to the wind - to steer closer to the wind, usually by pulling in on the sheets

The relative ability of a ferrous alloy to form martensite when quenched from a temperature above the upper critical temperature. Hardenability is commonly measured as the distance below a quenched surfsce at which the metal exhibits a specific hardness ( ...

Depositing filler metal on a surfsae by welding, spraying, or braze welding to increase resistance to abrasion, erosion, wear, galling. impact, or cavitation damage.

Physical equipment used in data processing. Compare to firmware, software.

Physical equipment used in data processing. Compare to firmware, software.

A sinusoidal quantity having a frequency that is an integral multiple of the frequency of a periodic quantity to which it is related.

An international goods classification system for describing cargo in international trade under a single commodity-coding scheme. Developed under the auspices of the Customs Cooperations Council (CCC), an international Customs organization in Brussels, thi ...

An opening in a ship's deck for passageway or for handling cargo or stores.