A pair of additional backstays temporarily rigged to provide extra support to the masts of square rigged vessels when sailing downwind.

Vessel moves to a new area for a new season.

A vessel is in soundings when she is in sufficiently shallow water for soundings to be made and used as an aid in the vessel's navigation.

To lash up.

The direction of an object (with reference to you, your ship, another object).

A gangway or gangplank. Used to cross from one ship to another, or from a ship to a pier.

Shipped under rate that includes cost from end of ship's tackle at load port to end of ship's tackle at discharge port.

A negatively charged ion.

Old name for bunting from which signal and other flags were made.

(1) A line by which the end of a spar is hoisted or lowered. (2) A line that holds up the boom when it is not being used. (3) A line from the upper mast which controls the height of the spinnaker pole.

Said of a vessel when the depth of water can be measured by the lead (within the 100 fathom curve).

(1) The edge where the deck joins the hull; top edge of bulwarks. (2) The railing around the deck.

(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 ...

The top of a wave.

A group of points to which rates are made the same as or in relation to rates to other points in group.

A line used for capsizing the sea anchor and hauling it in.

To enter a port or harbor

To reach the end; to bring one object hard up against another, as when two blocks in a block and tackle arrangement are brought together.

Pieces of plank bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the foretopmast stays through.

The amount of work done on or by a system is equal to the amount of energy transferred to or from the system.