Drydocking, beaching, or careening a vessel and carefully examining the bottom with a view to ascertaining any damage it may have.

Stemming the tide or sea means to head the vessel's bow directly into the current or waves. Overcome adverse circumstances.

A colorless odorless very poisonous gas formed by the incomplete burning of carbon. Found in some ambient air conditions.

A board with cleats, forming a bridge reaching from a gangway of a vessel to the wharf.

The tide with the least variation in water level, occurring when the moon is one quarter and three quarters full. The lowest high tide and the highest low tide occur at neap tide. The opposite is the spring tide.

A boat that is comfortable in rough weather.

Is singular for media and is the material...paper, wire, cellulose or a combination... from which the filter element is made and which does the actual filtration or separation.

An officer who attends to the berthing, etc., of ships in a harbor.

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

Ropes used for hoisting gaffs and sails, and signal flags.

A unit of power equal to 1,000 watts.

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.

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

At right angles to the centerline of the boat; rowboat seats are generally athwart ships.

After a seam is caulked, to lay over it a narrow piece of canvas and then pour on hot pitch and tar .

Is a positive displacement rotary compressor.

(1) Term describing the status of seamen, corresponding to rank in the case of officers. (2) A method of measuring a yacht's expected performance relative to another yacht while racing. Over the years many formulas have been experimented with, in order to ...

Numbers of large pieces of floating ice that have come together and lie more or less in contact.

Is the ratio of the thermodynamic work requirement in the cylinder to actual brake horsepower requirement.

A wedge-shaped piece of timber used to secure barrels against movement.