Fittings on the mast to which the forestay and shrouds attach.

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.

Touching or fast to the bottom.

A device for applying a fine spray by compressed air.

the attraction to, and retention of particles in, a filter medium by electrostatic forces, or by molecular attraction between the particles and the medium.

A large circular ocean current.

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

Welded Minimum Wall tubing

Kilowatt hour - A unit of work, being the work done in one hour at the rate of 1,000 watts.

A crack or hole that accidentally admits a gas or lets it escape.

An electrical current that periodically reverses its direction. Standard in US and Canada is 60 cycles per second. Europe and other countries is 50 cycles per second.

The ratio in percentage of the time that the equipment is in operation to the total working time.

In the Far East, a warehouse where goods are stored and delivered.

The ability of a seaman to foretell weather by the appearance of the sky, change of wind direction, etc. was handed down in the form of proverbs. Some well known are:

Hollow vessel of iron, steel or wood, that is filled with water and sunk under a vessel. When water is pumped out, the buoyancy of the camel lifts the ship. Very valuable aid to salvage operations.

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

(1) To lean over to one side, due to wind pressure on the sails or crew on the side; The amount that a boat is tipped over side-to-side, relative to its normal horizontal position. (2) The after end of a ship's keel. (3) The lower end of a mast.

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 ...

The vertical barrel device used to heave in cable or lines.

Inlet butterfly valve. These are fitted on the inlet of most types of compressor and the valve opens and closes to throttle the air flow. However, the term IBV is usually associated with turbo compressors.