Cost of goods, marine insurance and all transportation (freight) charges are paid to the foreign point of delivery by the seller.

Small line consisting of several loosely twisted yarns.

The watches aboard ship change at 4, 8, and 12 around the clock. A watch lasts four hours and at each half hour during the watch, a bell is struck. For instance, at 12:30 a.m. there is one bell for the first half hour after midnight; at 1:00 a.m. there ar ...

Finely-divided water swept from crest of waves by strong winds.

A bank that, in its own country, handles the business of a foreign bank.

A large and powerful sheet winch

Consists of a vessel which is a combination of oil sump and oil separator, an oil cooler and an oil filter.

Sailing with the wind coming from the stern or quarter of the boat.

Amends the Act of 1984 to provide for confidential service contracts and other items.

Compressors in which successive volumes of air or gas are confined within a closed space, and compressed. They may be either reciprocating or rotating. (Trap air and then squeeze it to the desired pressure).

A term for a circular plank edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel.

A measure of air compressor efficiency, usually in the form of bhp/100 acfm or acfm/bhp

(1) A spar that extends from the bow of the boat. (2) A spar stretching diagonally across a four-sided fore-and-aft sail to support the peak.

A warehouse authorized by Customs authorities for storage of goods on which payment of duties is deferred until the goods are removed.

Convention on International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea; Rules of the Road. Internationally accepted rules by which vessels at sea must keep clear of each other.

the weight of a specified artificial contaminant that must be added to the influent to produce a given differential pressure across a filter at specified conditions. Used as an indication of relative service life.

A navigational tool used to measure distances on a chart.

Any time Day or Night Sundays & Holidays Included.

States that the volume of a gas, at constant pressure, varies directly with the absolute temperature.

Decorative ropework with an even number of strands to form a herring-bone pattern.