Making Way
Marina
MAYDAY
Mooring
Motor
Motorboat
Navigation
Nautical Mile
Nun Buoy
Oar
Outboard
Outdrive
Outdrive
Overall Length
Painter
Making progress through the water.
A place, essentially a dock area where small recreational craft are kept. It is
usually where floats or piers as well as service facilities are available.
A radio distress call from the French m'aidez (help me). In Morse Code it is
an SOS.
Commonly the anchor chain, buoy, pennant, etc., by which a boat is
permanently anchored in one location.
A source of mechanical power.
Any watercraft 65 feet or less in length propelled by machinery, whether or
not such machinery is the principal source of propulsion.
The art of conducting a ship from port to port.
It is 6076.12 feet or 1852 meters.
geographical mile is the length of one minute of latitude at the equator is
6087.20 feet.
A conical, red buoy bearing an even number and marking the starboard side
of a channel from seaward.
A wooden instrument with a flat blade at one end used for propelling a boat.
(1) A propulsion unit for boats attached at the transom. It includes the
motor drive shaft and propeller.
(2) Outside or away from the vessel's hull. It is the opposite of inboard.
A propulsion system for boats that is attached to the transom. It includes the
motor, drive shaft and propeller.
A propulsion system for boats that is attached to the transom. It includes the
motor, drive shaft and propeller.
The extreme length of a vessel, excluding spars or rigging fittings. (LOA).
A line attached to the bow of a boat used to secure the boat to a dock.
It is an international standard.
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