Thin strips of wood put around the hatches, to keep the tarpaulin down. Also put upon rigging to keep it from chafing. A large batten widened at the end, and put upon rigging, is called a scotchman.

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Pockets in a sail where battens can be placed to stiffen the sail.

(FNMA)In the US, a government-backed corporation which purchases mortgages from lenders and resells them.

An electricity powered device that extracts available heat from one area (the heat source) and transfers it to another (the heat sink) to either heat or cool an interior space or to extract heat energy from a fluid.

A motor in which a three phase (or any multiphase) alternating current (i.e. the working current) is supplied to iron-cored coils (or windings) within the stator. As a result, a rotating magnetic field is set up, which induces a magnetizing current in the ...

A mortgage which guarantees the interest rate charged will remain sandwiched between two specified.

Depositing filler metal on a surfsae by welding, spraying, or braze welding to increase resistance to abrasion, erosion, wear, galling. impact, or cavitation damage.

Total remuneration of an employee or director which includes salary and bonuses.

A method of lowering the sail in sections so that it can be reefed quickly.

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The number of degrees of list a vessel has. The first indication that a vessel may need to reef is when there is too great an angle of heel.

The difference between the outgoing infrared terrestrial radiation of the earth's surface and the downcoming infrared counterradiation from the atmosphere.

Features and vegetation on the outside of or surrounding a building for aesthetics and energy conservation.

Category of bulk carrier 100.000-180.00DWT so called she is too large to pass Suez and Panama Canals.

A metal which because of its relative position in the galvanic series, provides sacrificial protection to metals that are more noble in the series, when coupled in an electrolyte.

See gust and peak gust.

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Direction from which the wind is blowing; an unsailable sector between close hauled headings.

The quantity of heat produced to change a unit weight of a liquid to vapor with no change in temperature.