A locker big enough to hang clothes.

The operation of bringing two lines together; term also applied to other objects.

Ribbon, yarn, or other lightweight material attached to rigging or sails to indicate wind action or direction. Proper use of the telltales can help sailors improve their sail trim.

Sailing vessel with three or more masts. Square rigged on foremast, fore and aft rigged on all others.

One of the large square openings in the deck of a ship through which freight is hoisted in or out, and access is had to the hold.

Atmospheric pressure as measured by a barometer.

The oxidation of conventional hydrocarbon lubricants when they reach the end of their useful life and begin to breakdown. Can cause operating temperature increase, increase brake horsepower and plugs separator, can destroy air end.

Is any gas or gas mixture in which one or more of the constituents is at its saturated vapor pressure. The constituent at saturation pressure may or may not be water vapor.

Compressors of 20 HP or less, generally combined with all the components required to put the into operation.

Said of cable when it extends vertically and taut from anchor to hawsepipe.

Where meals are eaten

Direction from which the wind is blowing; an unsailable sector between close hauled headings.

The top point of the line about which the earth rotates.

The ratio and percent of the actual delivered capacity (measured at inlet temperature, pressure and gas composition) to the piston displacement.

A prisoner sold in the slave market. He was forced to serve in the war galleys, where he pulled on one of the oars.

A sail set forward of the foremast on the headstay; a foresail

An apparatus consisting of a small, polished, stainless steel cup placed in a container into which is passed the sample gas. The temperature of the polished surface is lowered by immersing dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) in an acetone solution contained in ...

A method of lowering the sail in sections so that it can be reefed quickly.

The number of degrees of list a vessel has. The first indication that a vessel may need to reef is when there is too great an angle of heel.

Flow of air under specific conditions required at a particular point.