A large and powerful sheet winch

Any time Day or Night Sundays & Holidays Included.

A bank that, in its own country, handles the business of a foreign bank.

A measure of air compressor efficiency, usually in the form of bhp/100 acfm or acfm/bhp

(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.

Cost of goods, marine insurance and all transportation (freight) charges are paid to the foreign point of delivery by the seller.

Elevated structure from which coal and other cargoes can be loaded into a vessel. Name is also given to a landing-place, or loading-place.

Convention on International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea; Rules of the Road. Internationally accepted rules by which vessels at sea must keep clear of each other.

(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.

Compressors in which successive volumes of air or gas are confined within a closed space, and compressed. They may be either reciprocating or rotating. (Trap air and then squeeze it to the desired pressure).

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.

A warehouse authorized by Customs authorities for storage of goods on which payment of duties is deferred until the goods are removed.

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

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.

Arrangements with a steamship line to transport containerized cargo.

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

The action of a whale when it comes to the surface and expels the seawater it has taken in while feeding. The traditional hail of the lookout in a whaling ship when sighting this spouting water is "There she blows".

A navigational tool used to measure distances on a chart.

A boat with a flat bottom and square ends.

(1) A spar that extends from the bow of the boat. (2) A spar stretching diagonally across a four-sided fore-and-aft sail to support the peak.