Length of rope whose ends are joined together so that it forms a loop.

A person authorized to transact business for and in the name of another person or company. Types of agent are:(1) brokers,(2) commission merchants,(3) resident buyers,(4) sales agents,5) manufacturer's representatives.

A commission issued, licensing the commander of a privately owned ship to cruise in search of enemy merchant vessels. see Privateer.

A component on a compressed air line that provides wide are coverage with a thin sheet of air. Also amplifies compressed air flow, reduces noise. Used in blowing, cooling. Also known as air curtain.

Welded Minimum Wall tubing

An agreement by an ocean carrier to provide cargo space on a vessel at a specified time and for a specified price to accommodate an exporter or importer.

Smaller powered boat used to provide steerage-way when not under sail.

The pressure of a system or device measured from absolute zero.

A reef in a spanker or fore-and-aft mainsail, which runs from the outer head-earing, diagonally, to the tack. It is the closest reef, and makes the sail triangular, or nearly so.

A charter in which the bare ship is chartered without crew; the charterer, for a stipulated sum taking over the vessel for a stated period of time, with a minimum of restrictions; the charterer appoints the master and the crew and pays all running expense ...

Japanese tapered pipe thread (Male).

Small trading vessel also used for exploration. Three-masted, being square-rigged on the two forward masts, and having a lateen rigged mizzen mast. Christopher Colmbus' small squadron, the Santa Maria, Pinta, and Nina, were all Caravels, as were Magellan' ...

An electronic communications or direction finding system which uses Very High Frequency radio waves. VHF radios are the most common communications radio carried on boats, but their range is usually limited to line of sight between the transmitting and rec ...

A buoy moored near a Lightship from which she can check her position to make sure that she has not moved by dragging.

An arbitrary filter efficiency rating.

A loop or hole which is spliced or tied on the end of a line

The total price to move cargo from origin to destination, inclusive of all charges.

Kilopascal; a metric measure of pressure based on force per unit area. (1 kPa = 4.01 inches of water).

Heat exchangers for cooling air or gas discharge from compressors. Designed to reduce the temperature and liquefy condensate vapors. Both air cooled and water cooled units are available.

Saluting