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2. Fishing vessel - Wikipedia

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   Fishing vessel. A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish and other valuable nektonic aquatic animals (e.g. shrimps / prawns, krills, coleoids, etc.) in the sea, lake or river. Humans have used different kinds of surface vessels in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing .

3. Pilar (boat) - Wikipedia

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   Ernest Hemingway owned a 38-foot (12 m) fishing boat named Pilar. It was acquired in April 1934 from Wheeler Shipbuilding in Brooklyn, New York, for $7,495. [1] ". Pilar" was a nickname for Hemingway's second wife, Pauline, and also the name of the woman leader of the partisan band in his 1940 novel The Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

4. Outboard Marine Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Defunct. Headquarters. Waukegan, Illinois. , United States. Outboard Marine Corporation ( OMC) was a maker of Evinrude, Johnson and Gale Outboard Motors, and many different brands of boats. It was a multibillion-dollar Fortune 500 corporation. [ 1] Evinrude began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1907. OMC was based in Waukegan, Illinois. [ 2]

5. Practical Boat Owner - Wikipedia

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   Website. www .pbo .co .uk. ISSN. 0032-6348. Practical Boat Owner is a British magazine about boats. [2] It is published by Future plc. It covers boat maintenance and repairs, sailing activities and news about sailing and motor boats.

6. Traditional fishing boat - Wikipedia

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   Traditional fishing boats are usually characteristic of the stretch of coast along which they operate. They evolve over time to meet the local conditions, such as the materials available locally for boat building, the type of sea conditions the boats will encounter, and the demands of the local fisheries . These fishing boats in Gambia conform ...

7. List of boat builders - Wikipedia

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   Brunswick Boat Group. Burger Boat Company. Cantieri di Pisa. Carter Marine. Carver Yachts. Centurion Boats. Chaparral Boats. Chris-Craft Corporation. Cimmarron Boats.

8. Drifter (fishing boat) - Wikipedia

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   A drifter is a type of fishing boat. They were designed to catch herring in a long drift net. Herring fishing using drifters has a long history in the Netherlands and in many British fishing ports, particularly in East Scottish ports. Until the mid-1960s fishing fleets in the North Sea comprised drifters and trawlers, with the drifters ...

9. Island of Stroma - Wikipedia

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   It records that a man named Valthiof, the son of Olaf Rolfson, lived and farmed on Stroma. One Yule Eve, he set off in a ten-oar boat to Orphir on Mainland, Orkney at the invitation of the Earl of Orkney, Paul Haakonsson. However, the boat was lost with all hands, as the Saga puts it: "sad news as Valthiof was a most accomplished man".