To cast overboard or off. To discard something as unwanted or burdensome. Goods or equipment may be jettisoned to lighten a ship in danger.

The weight prescribed by agreement between carrier and shipper for goods shipped in certain packages or in a certain number.

The weight by which a shipment is less than the minimum weight.

The largest of the headsails; corresponds to the genoa.

Abbreviation for "Just In Time." In this method of inventory control, warehousing is minimal or nonexistent; the container is the movable warehouse and must arrive "just in time;" not too early nor too late.

Continuous longitudinals fastened under the deck.

A tariff published by an agent on behalf of several carriers.

A boat that is letting herself be subjected to prevailing conditions without the use of sails or other devices. Lying ahull is usually not preferred to other actions because a boat may tend to lie with her beam to the waves and the wind parallel to the wa ...

The error in a compass reading caused by the heel of a boat.

Touching or fast to the bottom.

A valve with a faucet type handle used to restrict the flow of water in a line

The quantity of goods that may be imported without restriction during a set period of time.

Supported or transported by air.

Is a compact, low mass unit giving smooth, non-vibrating power. Several types include vane, piston, percussion and turbine type motors

A cylindrical navigation buoy painted green and having an odd number used in the United States as a navigational aid. At night they may have a green light.

A commission issued, licensing the commander of a privately owned ship to cruise in search of enemy merchant vessels. see Privateer.

A charter in which the bare ship is chartered without crew; the charterer, for a stipulated sum taking over the vessel for a stated period of time, with a minimum of restrictions; the charterer appoints the master and the crew and pays all running expense ...

Small cask used for carrying drinking water in a boat.

(1) The last position on a chart, when a ship is leaving the land.(2) The number of nautical miles that one place is eastwards or westwards of another. (3)The easting or westing made by a vessel. The bearing of an object on the coast from which a vessel c ...

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