Required lights on a boat help others determine its course, position and what it is doing. Boats underway should have a red light visible from its port bow, a green light on the starboard bow and a white light at its stern. Other lights are required for v ...

On older sailing ships, an additional lateen shaped mizzen sail carried on the fourth mast, known as a bonaventure mizzen.

On a square-rigged ship, the area between the after end of the forecastle and the forward end of the booms where lines, blocks, and tackle were stored.

Provision in a salvage agreement that money is not payable unless the property is salved in accordance with that accordance.

Is the ratio of actual capacity to piston displacement, stated as a percentage.

Describing a small or confined space. Originated from the time when a cat-o'-nine-tails was used to inflict punishment.

A wooden lattice-work covering a hatch or the bottom boards of a boat; similarly designed gratings of metal are frequently found on shipboard.

A smooth hard wood grown in the West Indies which had many maritime uses, such as deadeyes and the sheaves of blocks. Its hardness stood up well to wear, and its smoothness allowed lines to render through easily.

To make fast. To bend a sail, is to make it fast to the yard. To bend a cable, is to make it fast to the anchor. A bend, is a knot by which one rope is made fast to another.

To move cargo from one place to another.

ACRONYM - National Electrical Code

Deeper forward (front end deepest in water).

Hauled out of the water for repairs or storage

A black ball visible in all directions, displayed in the forward part of a vessel to indicate that the vessel is anchored.

Term used in the days of sail to indicate the starboard of the two anchors carried at the bow of a ship. The anchor on the port side was known as the small bower (although they were the same size).

Any boat built to certain standards or rules so that is like all others in the same class.

A sturdy railing or elevated guard rail around the deck at the stern. also known as Pushpit

An anchor or weight, permanently attached to the sea floor, with a buoy going to the surface, used to hold the boat in a certain area.

Wooden bar with an iron shod, wedge, Shaped end, used in prying the anchor or working the anchor or working the anchor chain. Also used to engage or disengage the wild-cat.