What's here
Every term you will hit in a tender or chase-boat brief: regulatory acronyms (SOLAS, MCA, IP, VAT), propulsion types (jet, sterndrive, IPS, hybrid), hull and design vocabulary (LOA, beam, deadrise), equipment (davits, chocks, swim platform), commercial (MOA, escrow, central agency), and the builder names that come up most often.
How it's organised
The A-Z list below covers every entry. The categories index groups them by domain: regulatory, propulsion, hull-design, equipment, tender-types, chase-boat-support, operations, commercial, builders. Each term page expands the one-sentence definition into a short reference, with cross-links to related terms and to the spokes or guides where the term comes up most.
Auto-link
Across the site, the first occurrence of a glossary term in any page's prose is wrapped in a link to its glossary entry, with a definition tooltip on hover. That keeps the editorial pages clean while making the reference one click away.