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This is a glossary about nautical terms used in the marine industry.

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GRT is the capacity of a merchant vessel, expressed either in units of weight, as deadweight tons, or of volume, as gross tons.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

A hank is a ringlike fitting that can be opened to admit a stay for attaching the luff of a sail.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

Hogging is the stress a ship's hull or keel experiences that causes the center or the keel to bend upward.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

The term 'leeway' refers to the drift of a ship or an aircraft to leeward of the course being steered.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

List refers to a ship leaning to one side under stable conditions, often caused by uneven loading or flooding. By contrast "roll" refers to the dynamic movement from side to side caused by waves.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

The quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind).

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

Also known as the center of buoyancy, it refers to the center of mass of the immersed part of ship or other floating object.

Domain: Maritime; Category: Ocean shipping

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