When rope comes aboard a vessel and is put to use, it is called line, although some still call it rope if it is over one inch in diameter.

On wooden vessels, the frames or ribs of a ship, connected to the keel, which give shape and strength to the ship's hull.

An inland location where cargo is received by the ocean carrier and then moved to a coastal port for loading.

ACRONYM - Canadian Standards Association

The forward end of a ship's after superstructure, where the poop deck descends to the upper deck.

To abandon a ship at sea; to place people in a ship's boat or raft and leave them.

Instructions given by a shipper to a bank indicating that documents transferring title to goods should be delivered to the buyer only upon the buyer's acceptance of the attached draft.

Term used in a voyage charter party, e.g. vessel shall proceed to Berth 2 at Falmouth.

The compressor is started automatically, depending on demand. Control panel is energized with no "pre-start" cycle required, as pre-lubrication pump and buffer (seal) air are always "on". A state of pre-start exists. Steam turbine compressors are "slow-ro ...

A keel that runs the length of the boat.

(1) A longitudinal crack in a mast or other spar. (2) The shivers of a sail when sailing too close to the wind. (3) As a verb, to let it out.

To remove a reef from a sail and hoist the sail aloft

Extending a sail using a whisker pole

Millions of cubic feet per 24 hour.

A point of sail where the boat is sailing away from the wind, but not directly downwind; Sailing with the wind coming from any direction from abeam to on the quarter, with the bow approximately 135 degrees to the wind source and the sails let out nearly a ...

The forward curve of the stem of a ship.

Insoluble material suspended in the lubricating oil. This material may come from contamination or oil degradation.

The acting of one person on behalf of another; a document authorizing one person to act on behalf of another.

Removing cargo from a container (devanning).

(1) Generally something wrong or difficult (2) To be tangled (line) or in turmoil (air); to entangle or obstruct (3) In racing, a rules infraction