Single tariff item, established to move multiple commodities needed for a specified project, usually construction.

The deck chest in which the bos'n keeps his deck gear.

To spill the sails is to take the wind out of the sails, either by heading up into the wind, or by easing the sheets to the point where the sails can hold no wind.

Windward side of a vessel.

Making a ship just as it is about to sail.

Shanties are the work songs that were used on the square-rigged ships of the Age of Sail. Their rhythms coordinated the efforts of many sailors hauling on lines.

An imaginary sphere surrounding the globe that contains the sun, moon, stars and planets.

Sailing too close to the wind

A board-shaped swinging vane, controlled by a tiller or wheel, and attached to the rudderpost or stern for steering and maneuvering a vessel.

A bridge that swings away from the waterway so that boats may pass beside it.

The weight of water vapor in the air vapor mixture per pound of dry air.

An arc of a circle in which certain types of navigational lights known as sector lights are visible.

Water service between two coasts; in the U.S., this usually refers to water service between the Atlantic and Pacific or Gulf Coasts.

Is a compression in which the temperature of a gas remains constant.

A moment of time which could be measured by the shaking of a sail as a sailing ship comes into the wind.

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

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

A contract term meaning both parties agree to provide something for the other.

Still, seaworthy, able.

Has to do with the properties of air-water vapor mixtures in the atmosphere.