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A lifting device composed of one mast or pole and a boom or jib which is hinged freely at the bottom.
Industry:Boat
A line used to control either a mobile spar, or the shape of a sail. A downhaul can also be used to retrieve a sail back on deck.
Industry:Boat
A method of using sound pulses to detect, range and sometime image underwater targets and obstacles, or the bed of the sea. Also see echo sounding and ASDIC.
Industry:Boat
Un metodo di un oggetto approssimativamente cilindrico come un longherone di sollevamento. Un'estremità di una corda fatta velocemente sopra l'oggetto, un anello di corda è abbassato e passato attorno all'oggetto, che può essere generato da tirare sul capo libero della corda.
Industry:Boat
A raised and windowed hatchway in the ship's deck, with a ladder leading below and the hooded entrance-hatch to the main cabins.
Industry:Boat
Un ciclo di corda, solitamente agli angoli di una vela, per la vela a un longherone di fissaggio. Essi sono spesso rinforzate con un occhio di metallo.
Industry:Boat
A partial deck, above the upper deck and at the head of the vessel; traditionally the sailors' living quarters. Pronounced /ˈfoʊksəl/, "fo'csle". The name is derived from the castle fitted to bear archers in time of war.
Industry:Boat
