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Iwas once walking a dock and I saw a marvelous looking lapstrake skiff rigged as a gaff sloop. I wasn't surprised when I learned it was a Bill Garden design.
transit - Also called a range. Two navigational aids separated in distance so that they can be aligned to determine that a boat lies on a certain line. Transits can be used to determine a boat's position or guide it through a channel.
In Transit
The status of goods or persons between the outwards customs clearance and inwards customs clearance.
Bear down - Turn away from the wind, often with reference to a transit.
Bearing - The horizontal direction of a line of sight between two objects on the surface of the earth.
CAPESIZE - a term used to describe a ship, usually a dry or wet bulker, that is too large to transit the canals and as a consequence must travel via the 'capes', ie Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn.
Navy Navigation Satellite System (TRANSIT) - An obsolete satellite navigation system of the United States conceived and developed by the Applied Physics Laboratory of John Hopkins University for the U.S. Navy.
We thus arrive, in tracing primitive efforts in the art of ship construction, at a stage from which the transition to the practice of setting up the framework of ribs fastened to a timber keel laid lengthwise, ...
chafed: chafe (châf) verb chafed, chaf-ing, chafes verb, transitive 1. To wear away or irritate by rubbing. 2. To annoy; vex. 3. To warm by rubbing, as with the hands. verb, intransitive 1.
Consequently submarines are referred to as "boats", because early submarines were small enough to be carried aboard a ship in transit to distant waters (even though modern submarines could probably fit small boats aboard, ...
The provision concerns power-driven vessels transiting narrow channels and narrow fairways on the Great Lakes and Western Rivers.
Panamax: ship capable of transiting the Panama Canal.
Perils of the sea: fortuitous accidents or casualties, peculiar to transportation on a navigable water, such as stranding, sinking, collision of the vessel, striking a submerged object, ...
Bridge - a time, place or means of connection or transition
Bulkhead - a wall or walls dividing the ship into compartments and can be sealed to contain a fire or flood ...
PANAMAX- A vessel designed to be just small enough to transit the Panama Canal
PASSENGER SHIP- A passenger ship that its authorized to carry over twelve passengers.
Range Beacons:
A set of at least two markers placed a distance apart at various intervals permanently installed to form a transit and used to indicatea recommended track through dangerous or narrow waters.
Transit The time steaming from port to the study site and vice versa. Under way A vessel in motion is under way. Upwind To windward, in the direction of the eye of the wind. Wake Waves generated in the water by a moving vessel.
 See also: Boat, Point, Forward, Current, Set
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