A location defined by navigational coordinates, especially as part of a planned route.
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OBSTRUCTION
An object such as a wreck, net, etc., which blocks a fairway, route, etc.
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LEG
A segment of a voyage between two waypoints.
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WAY-LANDING
An intermediate stop along the route of a steamboat.
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INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY
An inside protected route for small craft and small commercial vessels extending through New Jersey; from Norfolk, Virginia to Key West, Florida; across Florida from St. Lucie Inlet to Fort Myers, Charlotte Harbor, Tampa Bay, and Tarpon Springs; and from Carabelle, Florida, to Brownsville, Texas. Some portions are in exposed waters; some portions are very limited in depth.
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LATERAL SYSTEM
A system of aids to navigation in which characteristics of buoys and beacons indicate the sides of the channel or route relative to a conventional direction of buoyage (usually upstream).
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TACK
A leg of the route of a sailing vessel, particularly in relation to tacking and to starboard tack and port tack .
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DEEP SEA TRADE
The traffic route of both cargo and passenger vessels which are regularly engaged on the high seas or on long voyages.
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TRAMP SHIP
vessel that does not operate along a definite route on fixed schedule, but calls at any port where cargo is available.
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BACKHAUL
To haul a shipment back over part of a route which it has alread
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DEEP WATER ROUTE
A route for deep draft vessels within defined limits which has been accurately surveyed for clearance of sea bottom and submerged obstacles as indicated on the chart.
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