The recognition of a person by his recognizable characteristics (originally, the shape of the nose)

A tall buoy used as a navigational aid.

A government office where duties are paid, import documents filed, etc., on foreign shipments.

See Owner Code.

The distance between frames.

1) To wear a boat is the operation of bringing a sailing vessel onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern, as opposed to tacking, where the wind is brought around the bow. 2) In respect to the flying of flags, a ship flies her national fla ...

The latest time cargo may be delivered to a terminal for loading to a scheduled train or ship.

A coating or precipitate deposited on surfaces such as water pipes, steam boilers that are in contact with hard water. Water that contains carbonates or bicarbonates of calcium or magnesium are likely to cause scale when heated.

(1) Said of seas that break over a vessel or over a sea wall. (2) A whale breaches when it leaps out of the water.

(1) A knot used to secure a line to another object such as a ring or cylindrical object or to another line; (2) Common term for an enlistment.

The structure perpendicular to the shoreline to which a vessel is secured for the purpose of loading and unloading cargo.

Flat bottomed vessel with a shallow draught.

Line attached to the bottom of the boom used to flatten the sail by pulling the boom down, and thus tightening the luff of the sail. (2) A line used for hauling down a jib or staysail.

Old expression for the engraving of the wind-rose on charts.

Letter of credit in which the specified payment is guaranteed by the bank if all terms and conditions are met by the drawee and which cannot be revoked without joint agreement of both the buyer and the seller.

The left side of a vessel when looking forward.

Person who decoys a seaman from his ship and gains money by robbing and, or, forcing him on board another vessel in want of men.

The short aftermost raised deck of a vessel.

To take the opposite tack when sailing to windward with another yacht.

A compressor belonging to the group of displacement reciprocating compressors.