Pockets in a sail where battens can be placed to stiffen the sail.

Owners or operators of vessels providing transportation to shippers. The term is also used to refer to the vessels.

A container designed with openings in the side and/or end walls to permit the ingress of outside air when the doors are closed.

Mesh is the number of openings in a square inch of screen or sieve. It is equal to the square of the number of strands of metal or plastic screening per lineal inch. Standard US mesh screen # 16 equates to a 1.19 millimeter particle diameter, mesh size #4 ...

A large foresail which extends aft behind the mast.

A short piece of rope secured in the bow of a small boat used for making her fast.

The fitting which connects the boom to the mast.

A sail set forward of the foremast on the headstay; a foresail

Small boat carried on the vessel and used in case of emergency.

ACRONYM - National Pipe Thread standard. A description of a specific pipe thread

Is the property of a substance that gauges the potential or driving force for the flow of heat.

The most common type of sail used today, a triangle-shaped mainsail defined by the mast and one horizontal boom perpendicular to the mast.

A capacity measurement equal to one-fourth of a barrel.

(1) The condition of a vessel stranded on a reef or a rock when the seas break over her deck. (2) Half drunk; incapacitated by drink.

Sailing vessel with three or more masts. Square rigged on foremast, fore and aft rigged on all others.

Said of a vessel when she is shipping water on deck and it is running off through scuppers and freeing ports.

A wind shift that allows a boat to sail above its mean wind course.

Forty Foot Equivalent Units (Containers).

A prisoner sold in the slave market. He was forced to serve in the war galleys, where he pulled on one of the oars.