Moving through the water.

The settings on a pressure switch used to either load or unload the air compressor on a constant speed application, or start or stop the compressor on a start/stop application. The cut out pressure is also known as the maximum pressure, or the point at wh ...

To let go altogether.

Columnar support for the steering wheel in the cockpit.

Name given to the metal point or ram fixed on the bows of old war galleys and used to pierce the hulls, and thus sink or disable enemy ships.

Under letters of credit, one or more shipments are allowed by the phrase "partial shipments permitted."

A tiller that is designed to be used in the event that wheel steering fails.

Remove a boat from the water.

A ship designed to carry all types of general cargo, or "dry cargo."

Tool used for transferring course and bearing to and from the compass rose on a chart

To make fast. To bend a sail, is to make it fast to the yard. To bend a cable, is to make it fast to the anchor. A bend, is a knot by which one rope is made fast to another.

A situation in which waves strike a boat from the side, causing it to roll unpleasantly.

Any raised portion of a vessel/s hull above an upermost continuous deck such as a poop, bridge or forecastle and extending from side to side of the vessel.

The area between opposing shipping lanes, restricted to most navigation except for crossing with caution

Deeper forward (front end deepest in water).

To move cargo from one place to another.

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

Provision in a salvage agreement that money is not payable unless the property is salved in accordance with that accordance.

A slang term for an open-top trailer or container with a tarpaulin cover.

A halyard used to raise the spinnaker.