A device that can be set to automatically turn appliances (lights) off and on at set times.

The headstay on which jibs are hoisted

A special machinery device, which is applied on the dredger ship for digging, loosing soil, mashing, and sucking mud/rock. underwater

Equipped with Computer Controlled Auxiliary Sailing System.

The consolidation of a quantity of individual items into one large shipping unit for easier handling.- Loading one or more large items of cargo onto a single piece of equipment, such as a pallet.

The relationship between two numbers in the fibonacci sequence. The sequence for the first three.

Deterioration of gray cast iron in which the metallic constituents are selectively leached or converted to corrosion products leaving the graphite intact. The term graphitization is commonly used to identify this form of corrosion, but is not recommended ...

Ready Reserve Force

Cool air pulled ashore by rising thermal air currents caused by the air inland rising as the land heats up

A machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy by magneto-electric induction; may be used as a motor.

Covers for closing up hatchways.

The difference between the solar radiation directed downward and upward; net flux of solar radiation.

(GTC)An order to a broker to buy or sell shares at a specified price which remains valid until cancelled.

A drawing representing the internal parts of a vessel as if she had been cut straight through, either longitudinally or athwartships. It shows the positions of the frames and their exact curvature in relation to the hull shape.

See Gunwhale

Foaming water that rises upward immediately before stem of any craft being propelled through water.

A bun-shaped cover placed over a radar scanner to prevent risk of fouling and to protect it from the weather.

The record made by a hygrograph.

A sound level meter designed or adapted to measure the level of the mean squared time averaged A-weighted sound pressure.

The vertical pole or spar that supports the boom and sails. a mast on a mechanically propelled vessel holds electronics antennas, lights, etc.