Method of securing a line around a spar by taking the standing part around the spar, then a half hitch around itself and the end tucked three or four times around its own part.

Electro-mechanical steering device; an instrument designed to control automatically a vessel's steering gear so that she follows a pre-determined track through the water.

To haul on a rope, to haul up tight, to hoist the last possible inch or so.

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Cargo loaded into a container by the shipper under shipper's supervision. When the cargo is exported, it is unloaded at the foreign pier destination.

An anchor that is designed to bury itself into the ground by use of its plow shape. Also called a plow anchor.

Old Latin name for the south wind.

(1) The transverse measurement of a boat at its widest point. Also called breadth. (2) One of the transverse members of a ship's frames on which the decks are laid.

On older sailing ships, an additional lateen shaped mizzen sail carried on the fourth mast, known as a bonaventure mizzen.

The athwartship portion of a hull at the stern. The flat, vertical aft end of a ship.

Air pressure

Wooden swells on each side of the after end of a boom, having sheaves through which to lead the leech reefing pendants.

A vessel's position determined by observation and navigational data.

The distance the ship's side falls in towards the center line above the load water line. Opposite of flare.

A pressure below that of the existing atmospheric pressure taken as a zero reference.

Break; e.g., the line parted under strain

To unload a shipping container.

Is one in which there is no liquid injection and/or liquid circulation for evaporative cooling or sealing.

An expression used to the crew to indicate that the boat is about to tack.

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