The ship's funnel or smokestack.

A low vertical lip or raised section around the edge of a cockpit, hatch, etc. to prevent water on deck from running below.

In sailboat racing, to have a controlling position over competitors by staying between them and the next mark or buoy - a tactical maneuver in which the lead boat stays between the trailing boat and the wind or the next mark.

Length of chain used for putting around logs or steel products.

Along or around a coast.

The mount and housing for the compass, usually located on the wheel's pedestal.

Abbreviation for "Bales."

On a bellow type air actuator, that part of the flexible member forming an annular protrusion larger than the O.D. of the end retainers or bead rings.

An articulated five-platform railcar. Used where height and weight restrictions limit the use of stack cars. It holds five 40-foot containers or combinations of 40- and 20-foot containers.

The opening between the jib and the mainsail. Wind passing through this opening increases the pressure difference across the sides of the mainsail, helping to move the boat forward.

An articulated five-platform rail car that allows containers to be double stacked. A typical stack car holds ten 40-foot equivalent units (FEU's).

Abnormal, rapid reciprocating movement of the disc on the seat of a pressure relief valve.

See "Overland Common Points."

A "C" shaped fitting which can be slipped over the boom, for example, when the sail has been roller reefed to allow the boom vang to be reattached.

A boom on a jib or staysail.

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

States that the volume of a gas, at constant pressure, varies directly with the absolute temperature.

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

Same as two blocks.

Arrangements with a steamship line to transport containerized cargo.