Complementary equipment for terminal and over the road handling containers.

Abbreviation for "Standard Transportation Commodity Code."

A series of sound signals required by COLREGS to prevent collisions at sea.

Seaman's name for a reef knot tied upside down. also called a "granny" knot.

Windward side of a vessel.

To double a vessel's mooring lines.

Shortening of the old term "boatswain," an unlicensed member of the crew who supervises the work of the deck men under direction of the first mate.

Tools that operate by air pressure.

(1) Shallow water. (2) An underwater sand bar or hill that has its top near the surface.

The space between decks. The name of the deck or decks between the ceiling and main deck.

A Marine insurance term to refer to partial loss on an individual shipment from one of the perils insured against, regardless of the balance of the cargo. Particularaverage insurance can usually be obtained, but the loss must be in excess of a certain per ...

2,204.6 pounds or 1,000 kilograms.

Going sideways due to a current's set.

Document listing all personal goods of crew members.

Estimated account

An announced warning of an approach of a storm.

To throw an oar out of the rowlock, and raise it perpendicularly on its end, and lay it down in the boat, with its blade forward.

To know and to be able to recite the points of a compass from north to south to north again, both clockwise and counter-clockwise.

The forward mast of a boat with more that one mast

A support wire running from the upper part of the mast to the bow of the boat designed to pull the mast forward. A forestay that attaches slightly below the top of the mast can be used to help control the bend of the mast. The most forward stay on the boa ...