English-Portuguese translations for seaworthiness

• navegabilidade
  Deveremos preocupar-nos com as boas condições de navegabilidade dos navios de longo curso. We should be exercised about the seaworthiness of seagoing vessels.
  É necessário estabelecer um requisito fixo para cada embarcação ser submetida a um teste de navegabilidade, quer se trate de uma embarcação nova ou reconstruída. We need to introduce a fixed requirement for every vessel, whether new or rebuilt, to undergo a seaworthiness test.

Definition of seaworthiness

• The property of a watercraft that makes it fit to go to sea

Examples

• The ship leaked like a sieve and rode like a barrel; in other words it was completely lacking in seaworthiness.

Related words

• seaworthy
• seawolf
• unseaworthy