Pad Eye - An eye located on deck which is used for fastening cables or on the hull for hanging tires or an attachment for hanging a block and fall for lifting the propeller or rudder.
Category: - Maritime

Painter - A rope used to secure a boat to anything.
Category: - Maritime

Pallet - A flat tray, generally made of wood but occasionally of steel, on which goods particularly those in boxes, cartons or bags, can be stacked. Its purpose is to facilitate the movement of such goods, mainly by the use of forklift trucks.
Category: - Maritime

Panama chock - A steel casting used for line handling - from one vessel to another vessel or to the dock. Developed for use in the Panama Canal.
Category: - Maritime

Panamax - A vessel designed to be just small enough to transit the Panama Canal
Category: - Maritime

Panting - An in-and-out movement of plating; to pulsate or throb. Panting may be caused by the lift and fall of a ship in a seaway, or by engine vibration.
Category: - Maritime

Passenger Ship - A passenger ship that its authorized to carry over twelve passengers.
Category: - Maritime

Peak - A narrow compartment at either end of a vessel
Category: - Maritime

PEP - Provincial Emergency Program (PEP): Volunteer organization in British Columbia who's mission is to enhance public safety and reduce property and economic loss from actual or imminent emergencies or disasters.
Category: - Risk - Acronym

Personal Floatation Device - Approved floats meant as life preservers and carried on board American ships.
Category: - Maritime - Risk

PFD - Personal Floatation Device: Approved floats meant as life preservers and carried on board American ships.
Category: - Maritime - Risk - Acronym

Pilot - A trained captain who's job is to guide vessels into harbours, past underwater obstructions.
Category: - Maritime

Pilotage - The act carried out by a pilot of assisting the master of a ship in navigation when entering or leaving a port. Sometimes used to define the fee payable for the services of a pilot.
Category: - Maritime

Pilotage Dues - A fee payable by the owner or operator of a ship for the services of a pilot. This fee is normally based on the ship's tonnage.
Category: - Maritime

Pilot House - An enclosed place in which the main steering wheel, controls, engine room, telegraph, etc., are located. A wheel house.
Category: - Maritime

Pintle - A pin on which a rudder hinges.
Category: - Maritime

PIW - Person In Water
Category: - Maritime - Risk - Acronym

Pixel - The smallest unit of resolution on a display often used to display one grid cell at the highest display resolution.
Category: - GIS

Planking - Wood covering for decks, etc.
Category: - Maritime

Plating - The plates of a hull, a deck, a bulkhead, etc.
Category: - Maritime