sailing

To leave or forsake a ship, due to its impending doom.

The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.

An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.

To reduce (a ship) to a (nonfunctional) hulk.

The circular card attached to the needles of a mariner's compass, on which are marked the thirty-two points or rhumbs.

A deflection-limiting safety device used in high performance hang gliders.

A strong rope or chain rigging running from the end of the bowsprit to the ship's stem or cutwater.

To transfer goods from one ship or other conveyance to another.

Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull

A small hatch or opening in a boat. Also, small opening in a boat or ship for draining water from open deck.

A person who bails water out of a boat.

(contract law) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility.

To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.

Of a freight ship: having a small cargo capacity (less than 40,000 DWT); belonging to the handysize class.

To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores.

A bow thruster or a stern thruster.

Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.

To divide (a watch) with a comrade.

Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.

A line that cuts all meridians at the same angle, the path of a vessel that maintains a constant compass direction.