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

A device for applying a fine spray by compressed air.

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

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.

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.

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

(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.

A large circular ocean current.

Namely. Used in tariffs to specify commodities.

An arbitrary filter efficiency rating.

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

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:

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

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.

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 line secured along the deck to lay hold of in heavy weather; a line thrown on board a wreck by life-saving crew; a knotted line secured to the span between life-boat davits for the use of the crew when hoisting and lowering

A movable block and tackle used on board for a variety of purposes, including the handling of cargo in holds.

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 brand of lightweight anchor. It has pivoting flukes that dig into the ground as tension is placed on the anchor.

Also known as a steaming light. The masthead light is a white light that is visible for an arc extending across the forward 225