Grave, to:
To clean (a wooden ship's hull) by applying heat to soften the pitch and then scraping ...
Ballast-Is either pigs of iron, stones, or gravel, which last is called single ballast; and their use is to bring the ship down to her bearings in the water which her provisions and stores will not do.
The highly successful employment of one by the defenders of Antwerp when besieged by the prince of Parma in 1585 brought them into prominent notice, and they were used to drive the Armada from its anchorage at Gravelines in 1588.
The ballast was in the form of canvas bag of 50-60 pounds of gravel that the large and active crew moved each time the boat tacked.
Mark or engrave all equipment with an identifier such as your driver's license number including state abbreviation.
Photograph or videotape the interior and exterior of your vessel, showing all installed equipment and additional gear and equipment.
Coarse gravel or crushed rock laid to form a bed for roads or railroads. b. The gravel ingredient of concrete. 3. Something that gives stability, especially in character. verb, transitive bal-last-ed, bal-last-ing, bal-lasts 1.
Robinson is not recorded by Webster, arid altogether the assertion about the derivation is open to very grave doubt. There is no question that this is a very cut-and-dried story about the bystander and Mr.
Pieces of old pig-iron, with the rust scraped off and covered with several coats of coal tar, applied boiling hot, were used; clean gravel, in bags made of old canvas of suitable size for compact storage, was also utilized.
bar harbour - A harbor that has a bank or bar of sand or gravel at its mouth, so that it can only be entered at certain hours of the tide.
barograph - A weather device that records atmospheric (barometric) pressure continuously.
Perhaps more famous than historically practiced, walking the plank was the act of being forced off a ship by pirates (as punishment or torture) into the watery grave below.
Mayday Call: Is only used when a vessel or person is in grave and imminent danger requiring immediate assistance.
Consequently deadweight anchors are used where mushroom anchors are unsuitable, for example in rock, gravel or coarse sand.
Grave, to - see Bream
Great Circle - The largest circle which can be inscribed on a sphere by a plane that cuts through the center of the sphere.
 See also: Boat, Sail, Stern, Anchor, After
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