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

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

Altitude

Nautical name for an argumentative person.

To drive before a gale, with no sail, or only enough to keep the vessel ahead of the sea. Also, low, thin clouds that fly swiftly before the wind.

Continuous longitudinals fastened under the deck.

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.

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

A boat that is letting herself be subjected to prevailing conditions without the use of sails or other devices. Lying ahull is usually not preferred to other actions because a boat may tend to lie with her beam to the waves and the wind parallel to the wa ...

The carbon left after evaporating an oil under controlled conditions.

Sailing close-hauled

A landing wharf or pier; a dike at a river s mouth.

An anchor engine used for heaving in the chain cable and anchor.

Metal bolts with an eye in the end.

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

A forceful resistance to recognized authority. A refusal to obey a legal order of a superior officer is also considered mutiny.

Small bulldozer used to go over bulk cargoes.

The weight prescribed by agreement between carrier and shipper for goods shipped in certain packages or in a certain number.

A river, canal or other body of water that boats can travel on.

A receptacle which serves to store compressed air for heavy demands in excess of compressor capacity.