Lie at anchor

A condition of filter element loading in which contaminant spans the space between adjacent sections of a filter element, thus blocking a portion of the useful filtration.

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

In spray painting, the process of applying the final coat of paint at a lower air pressure. Used to uniform a finish or blending.

A machine which aspirates gas which has already been compressed and delivers the same at higher pressure.

A breakwater used as a landing pier.

To place pieces of dunnage in between pieces of cargo in order to prevent shifting of the cargo.

A ship builder, or one who works about a ship. Does wood carpentry on the ship and keeps ships faired. Builds launching ways and launches ship.

Open ocean sailing

The capacity for floating.

In a manner, or fashion, befitting a seaman.

A system of reefing a sail by partially furling it. Roller furling systems are not necessarily designed to support roller reefing.

Loose and broken ice in bays, or along exposed edges of floes.

Shipper's communication(s) to its agent and/or directly to the international water-carrier. Instructions may be varied, e.g., specific details/clauses to be printed on the B/L, directions for cargo pickup and delivery.

Long wave formations during calm or light air formed by waves running into shoaling water

Lying nearly head to wind and stopped, and maintaining this position by trimming sail or working engines.

A small projection of land.

(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.

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

The total pressure measured from absolute zero ( i.e., from an absolute vacuum).