Changing the consignee or destination on a bill of lading while shipment is still in transit. Diversion has substantially the same meaning.

(Free On Board) (...Named Port of Shipment):An International Term of Sale that means the seller fulfills his or her obligation to deliver when the goods have passed over the ship's rail at the named port of shipment. This means that the buyer has to bear ...

Short shrouds which give support to the top of a lower mast.

A listing of a particular boat's steering deviation on each point of the compass

A direction of forty-five degrees or less from the stern.

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.

A course marked by buoys or ranges measuring one nautical mile. Measured miles are used to calibrate logs.

Sailor's name for the north star, Polaris, which for all practical purposes remains fixed above the north pole, bearing north from everywhere in the northern hemisphere, making it a true aid to navigation.

The proper return port of a discharged seaman.

A logistical management system which integrates the sequence of activities from delivery of raw materials to the manufacturer through to delivery of the finished product to the customer into measurable components. "Just in Time" is a typical value-added e ...

A line or wire from the mast to the bow or stern of a ship, for support of the mast; rigging used to support the mast from forward or aft.

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).

The process of checking the accuracy of and adjusting the ship's magnetic compass.

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 sail a boat closer to the wind - to steer closer to the wind, usually by pulling in on the sheets

The straight or curved line of the deck line; curvature of the lines of a vessel toward the bow and stern.

devoid of water.

Ratio of the pressure of a gas to its critical pressure, in like units.

The outside plating of a vessel.

A nautical version of the national flag of the country usually flown at the stern. (2) Adopted by the United States Navy in 1862, the rank of a young officer equivalent to that of midshipman. The flag carried by a ship as insignia of her nationality.