An option strategy which involves, in one single transaction, the simultaneous purchase (sale) of a.

An automatic or manual valve that causes the flow to be by passed.

A deck crew member who is subordinate to the Able Bodied Seamen.

Infrared or radiant heat.

An authorised company which provides.

The bearing surrounding the propeller shaft where it exits the hull.

A chemical used as a preservative and in bonding agents. It is found in household products such as plywood, furniture, carpets, and some types of foam insulation. It is also a by-product of combustion and is a strong-smelling, colorless gas that is an eye ...

Nickname for the New York Stock.

A navigational aid used to facilitate the landing of an aircraft at an airport in instrument weather, i.e. low visibility.

To intercept the wind. A vessel or highland to windward is said to becalm another. So one sail becalms another.

Development of the lugsail rig where the sail is cut with a very short luff and lon leech.

A building with more than 50 percent of its floorspace used for commercial activities, which include stores, offices, schools, churches, libraries, museums, health care facilities, warehouses, and government buildings except those on military bases.

A self-contained toilet that use the process of aerobic decomposition (composting) to break down feces into humus and odorless gases.

A craft which is operable on or above water and which has characteristics different from those of conventional displacement ships. Within the aforementioned generality, a craft which complies with either of the following characteristics: .I the weight, ...

The difference between the maximum extended height and the compressed height of an air actuator.

The directors are a company's most senior managers and are elected to run the company by.

A term which describes the rising of warm air above cold air when two air masses of different temperatures, humidity and pressure meet.

A thermometer based upon the principle that the velocity of a sound wave is a function of the temperature of the medium through which it passes. Sonic thermometers possess very short time-constants and eliminate radiation error.

Lights required to be shown on boats underway between sundown and sunup.

Loose ends of line left hanging over a ship's side.