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2. Aids to Navigation Boat - Wikipedia

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   55-ft Aids to Navigation Boat (ANB) Equipped with a crane that is used for hoisting and securing the various buoys and aids to navigation that the Coast Guard supplies for waterways. The boat is 55 ft long to the transom, and 58 ft 9 in to the end of the swim platform. It is 25 ft tall unfixed and has a navigational draft of 8 ft.

3. Boom vang - Wikipedia

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   A boom vang (US) or kicking strap (UK) (often shortened to "vang" or "kicker") is a line or piston system on a sailboat used to exert downward force on the boom and thus control the shape of the sail.

4. Strake - Wikipedia

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   In a riveted steel ship, the strakes were usually lapped and joggled (one strake given projections to match indentions in the one adjoining), [3] but where a smoother finish was sought they might be riveted on a butt strap, though this was weaker. In modern welded construction, the plates are normally butt-welded with full penetration welds all ...

5. Frame (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   Frame numbers typically begin at 1 with the forward-most frame for US-built ships, and typically begin at 0 with the transom for ships built elsewhere, with numbers increasing sequentially towards the stern or bow, respectively. The total number vary per the length of a ship.

6. Tie down hardware - Wikipedia

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   There are several types of buckles found in tie down straps. The two most common are threaded buckles and snap buckles. Threaded buckles work like those found on backpacks and duffel bags for the purpose of adjusting the length of the tie down strap. Snap buckles are also commonly found on backpacks and duffel bags to allow fastening of the ...

7. G2-structure - Wikipedia

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   The existence of a structure on a 7-manifold is equivalent to either of the following conditions: . The first and second Stiefel–Whitney classes of M vanish.; M is orientable and admits a spin structure.