Abbreviations
LAT
What is Lowest Astronomical Tide?
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What is uniform?
What is the Binnacle?
A sailor who has drank too much and is not fit for duty
What is three sheets to the wind?
When the moon is between the sun and the earth (at new moon), the sun’s gravitational pull is in the same direction as the moon’s. During these days the high tides are higher and the low tides are lower than they'd be with just the moon’s pull alone.
What is a spring tide?
POSH
What is port outbound Starboard Home?
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What is Soxi Six?
Imaginary line running from bow to stern equidistant from port and starboard
What is the centreline?
The operation of drawing a vessel forward by use of long lines.
What is towing?
A plane from which the heights of tides are measured. Ot is usually fixed so that few tides fall below it.
What is a datum?
DGPS
What is a differential Global Positioning System?
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What is Kilo?
The number of persons in a ships crew
What is a compliment?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
An electronic system designed to transmit radio signals and receive reflected images of those signals from a "Target" in order to determine the bearing and distance to the "target"
The difference in level between the height of high water and the height of the next succeeding or last preceding low water.
What is Range?
BNWAS
What is a Bridge Navigation watch alarm system?
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What is Alpha?
The direction a ships nose or bow is pointing
What is the heading?
A procedure where a master will order all unnecessary lines removed
What is singling up?
Tides that have smaller ranges than average, they are caused when the gravitational pull of the moon and sun are at right angles to each other or when the moon is in the 1st and 3rd quarter.
What are neap tides?
SOPEP
What is Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan?
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What is Mike?
When a vessel is moving under its own power
What is making way?
the study of the physical and chemical behaviour of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their compounds, which are called alloys.
What is Metallurgy
A place on the east coast of Canada where the highest tides are located
What is the Bay of Fundy?