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

Amends the Act of 1984 to provide for confidential service contracts and other items.

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).

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.

(1) A small coastal inlet generally protected from the worst of the prevailing winds. (2) A thin, hollowed line cut along a yacht's sheer below deck level and traditionally gilded.

ACRONYM - Compressed natural gas, primarily methane.

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

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

The process of declaring the importation of foreign-made goods into the United States for use in the United States.

Port where cargo is unloaded and enters a country.

A boom on a jib or staysail.

Same as two blocks.

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.

On a square-rigged ship, the yards are square by the braces when they are at right angles to the fore-and-aft lines of the ship.

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A document, certified by a consular official, is required by some countries to describe a shipment. Used by Customs of the foreign country, to verify the value, quantity and nature of the cargo.

A combination of one or more blocks and the associated tackle necessary to give a mechanical advantage. Useful for lifting heavy loads.

(1) Prospective course over the ground for boat to follow. (2) A strip of metal attached to a mast to take the slides affixed to the luff of a sail.

Place where cargo is loaded and leaves a country.

Sailing with the wind coming from the stern or quarter of the boat.