Inch
A unit of measurement used primarily in the United States equal to 2.54 centimeters.
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Cubic Inch Displacement (CID) - Speed
Current - Horizontal movement on water
Current - Tidal current, ocean current, leeway, minor steering errors ...
The 60-inch stainless steel wheel is perched well aft, making for effortless steering as the helmsman can sit on either rail with good visibility and foot support. Harken winches are standard, including B48.2 primaries and B44.
20 feet of 6-inch yellow pine.
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120 feet of 3/4-inch yellow pine, 6 inches wide, tongue and groove.
Cubic Inch Displacement (CID)- Speed
Current - horizontal movement on water.
Day Beacon -unlighted fixed aid to navigation.
Dead reckoning - Determining your position by distance and course run ...
TENSILE STRENGTH The measure of a material's ability to withstand a tensile, or pulling stress without rupture, usually measured in pounds or tons per square inch of cross section.
- All cordage in general, above one inch in circumference, which bear different names, according to their .various uses, Bolt Rope is the rope sewed to the skirts or edges of sails. Buoy Rope. - A rope fastened to the buoy of the anchor.
Four 6-inch guns were added on the upper deck of these ships in1902. The Diadem class, launched in 1897 and 1898, were the last first-class protected cruisers added to the British navy.
Large-scale charts (for example, with a scale of 1 inch: 50,000 inches) cover small areas in great detail, while small-scale charts (1: 1,000,000 or greater) cover large areas in limited detail.
These are generally small--an inch or so in diameter and a couple of feet or so in length. They inhabit crevices in the rocks and often extend their head and a portion of their body out into the water.
The jackline is the quarter inch plastic jacketed steel wire at the edge of the vessel. In this case the jackline runs from the aft starboard cleat to the bow in front of the first legs of the bow pulpit and back to the aft port cleat.
Other flags, such as club burgees, private signals and courtesy flags for use on sailboats, should be approximately 1/2 inch for each foot of the highest mast above the water. For example, on a 30ft. boat, with 50ft.
CID - Referring to the cubic inch displacement of an engine, e.g., 454-cid gas engine.
CLEAT - A fitting to which lines are made fast. The classic cleat to which lines are belayed is approximately anvil-shaped.
may be repeatedly exposed for an 8 hour day, 5 days a week for a working lifetime (expressed as parts per million (ppm) for gases and vapours and as milligrams per cubic metre(mg/m3 ) for fumes, mists and dusts). TPC/I Ton Per Centimer/Inch ...
Traditionally a line must be over 1 inch in size to be called a rope. Cordage purchased from a supplier is called rope. Once installed on a yacht it is referred to as "lines".
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rope - 1 - Traditionally a line must be over 1 inch in size to be called a rope. 2 - In Naval terms, a rope is a steel cable casing with a synthetic or natural fiber core.
If boating on federally controlled waters and your vessel is 26 feet or longer, you must display a 5 x 8-inch placard made of durable material, fixed in a conspicuous place in the machinery spaces or at the bilge pump control station, ...
With a keelbolt boring into your knee and deck beam assaulting your skull it is all too easy to forget if you are working in metric or imperial units or perhaps using the ruler whose first inch is only seven eighths. Thank goodness for wing dividers.
belay that - An order given whilst men are hauling on a rope; to cease hauling and make fast to the last inch they have got in. Also slang for cease talking or fooling.
Only twist the coolant cap part way at first to release any potential steam, then take off to check the coolant level. The level of the fluid in the closed system's reservoir should be about one inch form the top.
It is made by drawing the needle through the fabric from the wrong side to the right side about 1/8 inch below the edge, then returning the needle to the wrong side-bringing it over the edge, ...
the prop of the outboard and even when it was operational found that I could track better with the oars. Also, it is better to leave the dinghy transom clear for anchoring manoeuvres. Dave handed down the anchor and a huge pile of three-quarter-inch ...
Rope Traditionally a line must be over 1 inch in size to be called a rope. Rudder post The post that the rudder is attached to. The wheel or tiller is connected to the rudder post.
 See also: Boat, Hull, Sail, Feet, Well
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