To let the sheet out slowly while maintaining control.

A navigation instrument used to measure the apparent height of a landmark whose actual height is known, such as the top of a lighthouse. From this information, the ship's distance from that landmark can be calculated.

(1) As a command, it means to go in the direction indicated, e.g., "Lay foward" (go up) or "Lay alow!" (come down). (2) Of a line or rope, it refers to the direction in which the strands are twisted. (3) Lay the course: able to fetch a given point when cl ...

Are any material with an affinity for moisture. These analyzers use sensing elements that contain moisture adsorbing material. A change in the moisture content of the element is detected by an electric network and is used as a measurement of dew point

The situation of a vessel when listed over by the wind to such an extent that she does not recover.

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A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas. A mixture of individual gases. The gaseous mixture surrounding the earth. Standard density of dry air free of carbon dioxide (0

To remove water from the boat by hand, bucket, pump etc.

A sea on the quarter (coming from a side of the stern).

Term for a seaman's short leave from his ship, permitting him to go ashore for the day or night.

Any fixed object that a navigator may use to find his position, such as permanent land or sea markers, buoys, radiobeacons, and lighthouses, and to indicate safe and unsafe waters.

A type of filter capacity test in which a clogging contaminant is added to the influent of a filter, under specified test conditions, to produce a given rise in pressure drop across the filter or until a specified reduction of flow is reached. Filter life ...

Resting on the surface of the water.

The act of striking or collision of a moving vessel against a stationary object.

A cargo consolidator in ocean trades who will buy space from a carrier and subsell it to smaller shippers. The NVOCC issues bills of lading, publishes tariffs and otherwise conducts itself as an ocean common carrier, except that it will not provide the ac ...

The interval between full moon and change of moon and the highest high tide.

Sequence of letters and numbers, unique to each ship by which ships can be identified.

Describes the pressure drop through a component and is the difference in pressure between two points.

Metal bolts with an eye in the end.

Practice of loading iron ore cargoes into every alternate hold, leaving the remaining holds empty.