Single Point Mooring System

In a wheel, such as a steering wheel, a spoke is a rod that extends from the hub outwards to the rim.

Running directly before wind and sea.

Placing a container where required to be loaded or unloaded.

Strategic Petroleum Reserve

An occasional sprinkling dashed from the top of a wave by the wind, or by its striking an object.

Water blown, or thrown, into the air in particles.

A deposition process whereby heat is used to break molecules into elemental sources that are then spray deposited on a substrate.

A piece of equipment designed to lift containers by their corner castings.

A type of furnace in which fuel is spread, automatically or mechanically, across the furnace grate.

Small struts or spars extending toward the sides from one or more places along the mast. The shrouds cross the end of the spreaders, enabling the shrouds to better support the mast. Also known as crosstrees in older vessels.

To develop a hole or break in the hull through which seawater could enter. Term originated from a sprung plank.

A dock line leading forward or aft, to prevent a vessel from moving ahead or astern. The after bow spring line is attached near the bow and runs aft, where it is attached to the dock. The forward quarter spring line is attached to the quarter of the boat, ...

Usually of the best wire hawsers; one of the first lines sent out in mooring. "Springs in and springs out" a vessel.

The tides found during a New Moon or Full Moon. They run the strongest and are the highest and lowest tides experienced in the tidal cycle.

In a wooden vessel, a plank in the hull springs when one of its ends breaks loose, and because of its shape bent to the curve of the hull, springs outwards beyond that curve. Such a plank is said to be sprung.

(1) A spar that extends from the bow of the boat. (2) A spar stretching diagonally across a four-sided fore-and-aft sail to support the peak.

A four-sided fore-and-aft sail set on a sprit.

Froth of sea foam.

Small line consisting of several loosely twisted yarns.