(1) A wind shift further forward relative to the boats direction or heading. (2) A bar or angle under a deck the same size as deck beams. It is used around stair openings in deck, small hatch openings, or at dead end of longitudinals.

The bridge used for taking observations, or directing the handling of the ship.

The top of a mast.

Sailing with the tiller over to leeward by force of the wind

Any person or entity who, in a contract of carriage, undertakes to perform or to procure the performance of carriage by rail, road, sea, air, inland waterway or by a combination of such modes.

Goods floating on surface of sea after a wreck.

A floating island of ice. Only one-ninth of the total mass of an iceberg is visible above water level.

Finite Element Analysis.

Nickname for a ship's cooper.

The total rate from the point of origin to final destination.

In sailing, to be lifted by a wind shift that allows your boat to be lifted closer to the wind where by it allows you to sail a shorter distance to the next mark, buoy or finish line

Official terminology for life jacket. When properly used a PFD will support a person in the water. Also called a life jacket, life preserver or life vest.

The ring bolted to the upper end of the shank of an anchor and to which the bending shackle secures.

A container fitted with a means of forced air ventilation.

A party named in an instrument as the beneficiary of the funds. Under letters of credit, the payee is either the drawer of the draft or a bank.

A lighted or unlighted fixed (non-floating) aid to navigation that serves as a signal or indication for guidance or warning. (Lights and daybeacons both constitute "beacons.")

Rules for letters of credit drawn up by the Commission on Banking Technique and Practices of the International Chamber of Commerce in consultation with the banking associations of many countries. See Terms of Payment.

Abbreviation for "With Particular Average."

On square-rigged ships, the blocks attached to those yards on which studdingsails were set.

That part of a shaft or axle that rotates or angularly oscillates in or against a bearing or about which a bearing rotates or angularly oscillates.