Slipway

SLIPWAY - Ramp sloping into water for supporting a ship.
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Slipways are used to get a trailered boat into the water. Marinas may offer a boat hoist well, a type of traveling crane, instead of a more space-wasteful slipway, operated by service center personnel.

beam, those in excess as regards length and beam being either launched by means of special slipways or kept afloat.

Slipways (or boat ramps) transfer a trailered boat into the water. A marina may have a boat hoist well (a traveling crane) operated by service personnel. A marina may provide in- or out-of-water boat storage.

SLIPWAY or BERTH The space in a shipyard where a foundation for launching ways and keel blocks exists and which is occupied by a ship while under construction.

See also: Well, Ways, Sailing, Light, Way