pram - A type of dinghy with a flat bow.
preferred channel buoy - Also known as a junction buoy. A red and green horizontally striped buoy used in the United States to mark the separation of a channel into two channels.
Pram
A type of dinghy with a flat bow.
Prevailing winds
The typical winds for a particular region and time of year.
pram - A dinghy with a squared shaped bow.
pram bow - A form of bow employed in sailing yachts reintroduced in modified form about 1892 and gradually exaggerated until 1900.
Pram
Chesapeake Light Craft builds a wide variety of boats that are also available as all-inclusive kits. The design work is well done and when I went to the company's Web site the photos of owner-finished boats are very impressive.
PRAM A dinghy with a transom at the bow and stern. PRISMATIC COEFFICIENT The ratio the hull displacement bears to the displacement of a shape which is the same length as the waterline length of the boat and has the same constant ...
Pram - A flat bottomed, blunt nosed dinghy (or small boat).
Pratique - Certificate given to a ship arriving from a foreign port, by the port's health officer, ...
On this occasion Herreshoff turned out in " Reliance " a wonderful example of a large fin-keeled boat with full pram-bow and light skimming-dish hull. She was of the lightest possible construction (bronze with steel web frames), 90 ft. length L.W.L.
pram
schooner: fore-and-aft rigged sails, with two or more masts, the aftermost mast taller or equal to the height of the forward mast(s)
ship of the line: the largest warship in European navies, ship-rigged ...
A small, light boat. Compare with pram and tender.
directional stability
See stability.
Rigid dinghy's for small yachts are very small (2m) dinghy's, usually with a pram (blunt) bow to get more beam (width) in a shorter length.
Pram A type of dinghy with a flat bow. Propeller An object with two or more twisted blades that is designed to propel a vessel through the water when spun rapidly by the boat's engine.
 See also: Sailing, Boat, Bow, Point, Course
  
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