Cost, Insurance, Freight, Interest and Exchange.

Remove unnecessary things from the decks usually in preparation for oncoming bad weather.

Abbreviation for "Cost, Insurance, Freight." (Named Port) Same as C&F or CFR except seller also provides insurance to named destination.

To touch the ground, with the keel, for a minute or so and then proceed again.

A bar which projects above the coaming and which bears against a continuous rubber gasket strip set into the hatch panels of steel hatch covers in order to provide a weathertight seal.

Line used for checking a vessel's way when warping her into a dock or basin.

Cubic space (measurement tons occupied by one tonne (2240 lbs or 1000 kgs of cargo))

Legal obligation for a ship to use the services of a pilot in a particular place.

A public/private initiative to promote the efficiency of compressed air in the US.

A device that changes a vapor into a liquid. Accomplished by exposing a tube containing vapor to air or by passing the tube through a water jacket.

The unit that runs continuously and matches air supply to demand, by loading and unloading the compressor.

A watertight bulkhead at the forepeak extending to main deck. This bulkhead prevents the entire ship from being flooded in case of a collision.

Abbreviation for "Carload" and "Containerload".

The direction of a ship's heading as read on a compass. The compass course has added the magnetic deviation and the magnetic variation to the true course.

Order to take off a damaged part of a vessel, to restore it to its proper shape and condition, and to replace it in position.

Abbreviation for "Cost and Insurance." A price that includes the cost of the goods, the marine insurance and all transportation charges except the ocean freight to the named point of destination.

The operation of pressing oakum into a seam as a temporary measure until the seam can be properly caulked.

An opening in the deck near the bow from which the spinnaker is hoisted. Spinnakers are also often referred to as chutes.

An anchor is said to come home when its flukes are not holding in the ground and it drags.

The tackle used to adjust the clew in and out on the boom.