Method of settling disputes which is usually binding on parties. A clause usually in a charter party.

A framing of metal fitted over an opening in a deck, with glass or plexiglass inserted for the admission of light into a cabin, engine room, etc.

A large, swelling wave. To surge a rope or cable, is to slack it up suddenly where it renders round a pin, or round the windlass or capstan.urge ho! The notice given when a cable is to be surged.

Breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier or iceberg.

Those causes of loss for which the carrier is not legally liable. The elemental risks of ocean transport.

The physical or mechanical process of separating insoluble particulate matter from a fluid, such as air or liquid, by passing the fluid through a filter medium that will not allow the particulate to pass through it.

A unit of volume. A US gallon has 231 cubic inches or 3,785 liters.

The vertical absorption of a liquid into a porous material by capillary forces.

The cover of a scuttle-way or small hatchway which leads to to or from a store room, cabin of small craft, crew's quarters, the forecastle or fore peak.

A low headroom space below decks used for provisions or spare parts, or miscellaneous storage.

A stopper used to prevent water from entering the hawse hole in heavy weather.

An order to stop; as, "Avast heaving!"

Areas of the ocean lying between the mostly westerly winds of the higher latitudes, and the trade winds. These areas usually have prolonged calms, and in the older days of sail it could take quite a while to clear out of this area, by which time the seame ...

A wind moving from the land to the water due to temperature changes in the evening, where the temperature of the land falls below the sea temperature.

Industry-related: A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.

Ties used to tie up the sails when they are furled to the boom or yards.

Capable of going to sea.

A hand held pneumatic chipping tool which the blows are transmitted through a group of floating needles or metal rods.

The headstay on which jibs are hoisted

On or in a ship.