Type of mobile crane found on a truck.

Change from a run to a reach

Gossip, usually about other people or events. The term scuttlebutt evolved from the name of a keg containing water and alcohol that sailors used to gather about before meals.

The energy in foot pounds required to compress adiabatically and to deliver one pound of a given gas from one pressure level to another.

The overlapping of wooden planks, used to form the outer surface of a boat's hull.

Filled with water but afloat.

A sliding fitting that attaches to a track allowing for the adjustment of blocks or other devices attached to the car.

Maintaining position over the ground when underway in a river or tidal stream.

Vessel contract where charterers take over all responsibility for the operation of the vessel and expenses for a certain period of time.

A plot of expected operating characteristics (e.g.., discharge pressure versus inlet capacity, shaft horsepower versus inlet capacity).

Place where a ship should report when passing i.e. when approaching a port.

A reversible propeller mounted in a tunnel running through the ship/s hull to give movement athwart-ships.

An officer taking his turn as officer of the watch.

Stout line or cable fore and aft around the deck of the boat to keep crew from falling overboard.

Sort of large pulley with sheave and steel block found on a derrick

A restrictive tube used in a refrigeration system which restricts the flow of freon and allows pressure to build on one side and suction on the other. It is located between the condenser and the evaporator.

Dangerously steep and breaking seas due to opposing currents and wind in a shallow area.

An absolute temperature scale. ((

To turn the boat head-to-wind so as to go about on the opposite tack

Is one in which the space occupied by the mixture is saturated with water vapor at the mixture temperature.