A large, swelling wave. To surge a rope or cable, is to slack it up suddenly where it renders round a pin, or round the windlass or capstan.urge ho! The notice given when a cable is to be surged.

To fake line back and forth on deck.

A rail around the mast or on the bulwarks with holes for belaying pins to which lines or halyards are attached.

One of the 4 cardinal compass points. North is the direction toward the North Pole and is at 0

Polaris, the North Star, is visible in the northern hemisphere and indicates the direction of north. In the southern hemisphere the Southern Cross is used to find the direction of south.

A large sail that is a cross between a spinnaker and a genoa. Hoisted without a pole, the tack is attached at the bottom of the headstay.

The vertical absorption of a liquid into a porous material by capillary forces.

A wind moving from the land to the water due to temperature changes in the evening, where the temperature of the land falls below the sea temperature.

Method of payment for goods in which documents transferring title are given the buyer upon payment of cash to an intermediary acting for the seller, usually a commission house.

Person given a passage in one of H.M. ships; usually on compassionate grounds.

Energy terms

To receive goods from a foreign country.

Allows foreign merchandise arriving at one port to be transported in bond to another port, where a superseding entry is filed.

An instrument that can be modified or cancelled at any moment without notice to and agreement of the beneficiary, but customarily includes a clause in the credit to the effect that any draft negotiated by a bank prior to the receipt of a notice of revocat ...

An object bears so and so, when it is in such a direction from the person looking. To bear down upon a vessel, is to approach her from the windward.To bear up, is to put the helm up and keep a vessel off from her course, and move her to leeward.To bear aw ...

The actual temperature of a moving gas stream. It is the temperature indicated by a thermometer moving in the stream with the same velocity as the stream.

Pounds.

The distance a boat can move around its anchor. Swinging room is important because if other boats or objects are within a boat's swinging circle they may collide.

One who earns his living by service at sea.

A heavy colorless gas that does not support combustion but is formed by the combustion and decomposition of organic substances. Found in some ambient air conditions.