A long sturdy pole fitted with a blunt hook at one end designed to catch a line when coming alongside a pier or mooring, to facilitate putting a line over a piling, recovering an object dropped overboard, or in pushing or fending off.

The North Star; visible in the northern hemisphere and indicates the direction of north. In the southern hemisphere the Southern Cross is used to find the direction of south.

To permanently join two pieces of rope. It will not pass through a block since it increases the diameter

A materials handling/storage facility used for completely unitized loads in containers and/or empty containers. Commonly referred to as CY.

elegant, luxurious. Originally an acronym for Port Over Starboard Home. Created by British travelers to India or Australia, describing the preferred accommodations aboard ship, which lessened effects of the tropical sun on the cabins during the voyage.

Once the only method, other than human voice, of passing orders to men on board ship; the instructions to perform certain tasks were conveyed by different notes and pitches on the high-pitched whistle.

To ease away slowly, as in a line, sheet, or falls of a tackle.

A rope network.

The ship's funnel or smokestack.

Blowdown.

To bleed is the operation of draining any water out of a buoy which may have seeped inside after long use at sea.

A term describing the seamen of a British warship.

On a wooden vessel, the outermost deck plank covering the gunwale. also called Covering Board

A deck dryer composed of a flat piece of wood shod with rubber, and a handle. Stanchions

The spiral grooves between the strands of rope after it has been laid up.

A large balloon shaped lightweight sail used when running or reaching. Spinnakers are made of cloth very similar to that used for parachutes, which is why you may also hear them called chutes, or kites.

A metal plate, strap, or rod bolted to the hull structure to which the lower ends of shrouds and stays are attached

Consists of a vessel which is a combination of oil sump and oil separator, an oil cooler and an oil filter.

That part of the water which is diverted from the main stream of a current and as a result flows in the opposite direction.

Wind coming from the south.