Sufficient movement through the water to allow the boat to be controlled and steered by the rudder.

On a square-rigged ship, the short pieces of line which hang from the yards and support the footropes on which the topmen stand while working aloft on the sails.

A schematic flow sheet showing all controls involved with the system.

The act of taking a ship on the high seas from those lawfully entitled to it.

Let the sail out by easing the sheet.

(1) A navigator shoots the sun by using a sextant to measure its altitude. (2) A sailing vessel shoots when she forges ahead to windward with her sails luffing.

A stationary passage surrounding an impeller, in which velocity pressure imparted to the flow medium by the impeller is converted into static pressure.

Lloyds open form

To calculate your position using time, the position of celestial bodies, and mathematical tables. Position is determined by measuring the apparent altitude of one of these objects above the horizon using a sextant and recording the times of these sighting ...

A vessel formed of two or more hulls. A catamaran has two hulls, and a trimaran has three hulls.

The slight deflection of very small particles in a gas stream that occurs when rapidly moving gas molecules strike them.

Procedure where carrier tests the temperature of the internal flesh of refrigerated commodities to assure that the temperature at time of shipment conforms to prescribed temperature ranges.

Compartment in the hold of a containership into which a shipping container fits exactly.

(1) The portion of an anchor that digs securely into the bottom, holding the boat in place. (2) The two triangular parts which make up a whale's tail.

The upward curvature of the keel towards the bow and stern.

Energy which a substance possesses because of the motion and configuration of its atoms, molecules, and subatomic particles.

A name usually given to a State body having control or regulation of public utilities.

Effective June 18, 1984, describes the law covering water transportation in the U.S. foreign trade.

At or in the direction of the bow. Also the fore part of the ship.

2,000 pounds.