Dry dock

Dry dock: an enclosed basin into which a ship is taken for underwater cleaning and repairing. It is fitted with water tight entrance gates which when closed permit the dock to be pumped dry.

Dry dock
A dock where a boat can be worked on out of the water. The boat is usually sailed into a dry dock, and then the water is pumped out.
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Dry Dock:
A dock into which a vessel is floated, which when raised lifts the boat out of the water. Can also be a watertight basin with one end open to the sea that can be closed and sealed with a gate, thus allowing the basin to be pumped out.

A boat in a dry dock.
Land Breeze
A wind moving from the land to the water due to temperature changes in the evening.

Narrowboat in a dry dock at the top of the Hatton 21 on the Grand Union Canal.

Dry docks are utilized for the construction or repair of ships. DOCKYARD A shipyard or plant where ships are constructed or repaired.

lacing Lines used to fix sail to a spar or mast laid up To be in dry dock land breeze Evening breeze that blows from the land to the sea landlocked To be completely surrounded by land, ...

DD Dry Dock
Every two or three years, the ship has to be put in a dry dock in order to check all the submerged parts, repaint them, eventually remove the propeller and the tailshaft. DEMDES Demurrage/Despatch money ...

The dimensions of some dry docks discovered at Munychium and Zea, ship-houses as the ancients called them, afford some indications as to limitations of length and breadth in the Attic ships that used them.

Altar - Step in a dry dock
Aloft - up above the deck, up the mast or in the rigging
Alongside - Close beside a ship, wharf or jetty.
"Ahoy" - seaman's call to attract attention ...

Floating Dock
A floating structure which can be partially submerged to enable vessels to enter and to leave and which can be raized for use as a dry dock.
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Wood sheathing effectively provided a non-structural skin to the hull for the worm to attack, and could be easily replaced in dry dock at regular intervals. It did nothing to reduce the weed growths, however.