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| POSH | Port Out, Starboard Home ... Used for Cruising Liners years ago for the "BEST" Cabins. Hence the name! |
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| Position Line or Line of Position | A line drawn on a chart, as a result of a bearing, along which the boat is positioned |
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| Pram | A flat bottomed, blunt nosed dinghy (or small boat). |
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| Pratique | Certificate given to a ship arriving from a foreign port, by the port's health officer, indicating that there are no cases of disease aboard the ship and the health of all on board is good. |
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| Preferred Channel Buoy | Also known as a junction buoy. A red and green horizontally striped buoy used in the United States to mark the separation of a channel into two channels. The preferred channel is indicated by the color of the uppermost stripe. Red on top indicates that the preferred channel is to the right as you return. |
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| Prevailing Winds | The typical winds for a particular region and time of year. |
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| Preventer | (1) Line and blocks or the boom vang used to keep the boom in place while reaching or running and to prevent an out of control swing during an accidental jibe. (2) Any additional line or wire temporarily rigged to back up any standing rigging in heavy weather. |
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| Primage | Money paid by shipper to Master of ship for diligence in care of cargo. Not now paid to Master, but added to freight. Amount was usually about 1% of freight. |
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| Prime Meridian | The meridian from which longitude is measured eastwards or westwards. The longitude of the prime meridian, passing through Greenwich, England, is 0° |
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| Privateer | A ship owned and armed by a private individual that is empowered by a government to fight with enemy ships and capture enemy shipping in time of war. |
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| Privileged Vessel | A vessel which, according to the applicable Navigation Rule, has right-of-way. Also known as the "stand on" vessel. |
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| Prize | An enemy vessel captured at sea by a privateer or a ship of war. The term is also applied to contraband cargo taken from a merchant ship. |
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| Procuration | The acting of one person on behalf of another; a document authorizing one person to act on behalf of another. |
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| Profile Plan | The side elevation of a ship's form. |
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| Progressive Flooding | When water from a leak passes successively from one compartment to the next, usually in the absence of watertight bulkheads or watertight doors left open. This is what eventually sank the Titanic. |
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