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The boat has been an Olympic class since it was selected by the International Sailing Federation to be the men's high performance double handed dinghy Sydney Summer Games of 2000. Its derivative featuring a re-designed rig, the 49er FX, was selected by World Sailing to be the women's high performance double-hander at the Rio Summer Olympics of ...
Friendship Sloop in c. 1920 Fiberglass Friendship Sloop Bay Lady (launched in 1979) Diagram of a Friendship Sloop. The Friendship sloop, also known as a Muscongus Bay sloop or lobster sloop, is a gaff-rigged working boat design that originated in Friendship, Maine around 1880 and has survived as a traditional-style sailboat.
built as Dmitriy Furmanov class river cruise ship; rebuilt to the biggest party boat of Europe: Ocharovannyy Strannik: 1956: 95.8 m (314 ft) 150: Kazan Shipping: Rodina / 588: Nizhny Novgorod: → : RRR 142507: originally, the Andrey Vyshinskiy, formerly Taras Shevchenko, Sergey Kuchkin, Taras Shevchenko: Ogni Bolshogo Goroda: 1977: 125.0 m ...
In Gondola Days (1897), Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838–1915) stated that the sandolo was "the only boat of really modern design, and this is rarely used as a fishing-boat". He went on to describe it as "a shallow skiff drawing but a few inches of water, and with bow and stern sharp and very low", and considered that it was originally intended ...
A Higgins Industries torpedo boat plant in New Orleans, 1942. Higgins Industries was the company owned by Andrew Higgins based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.. Higgins Industries is most famous for the design and production of the Higgins boat, an amphibious landing craft referred to as LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), which was used extensively in the Allied forces' D-Day ...
The interior design of Icon was done by Studio Linse and the exterior work was done by Redman Whiteley Dixon. She has two sister ships, the 2013 built Party Girl and the 2013 built Baton Rouge . She is available as a charter yacht .
A yakatabune near Odaiba The inside of a yakatabune. A yakatabune (屋形船) is a kind of privately owned Japanese boat that has been in use since the Heian period.Private boats of the shōgun from the Heian through the Edo periods were very lavishly decorated.
The three most common motifs are dauan-dauan (leaf-like designs), kaloon (curved lines), and agta-agta (fish designs). All three are used in carving the buaya design of the prow. The hull of the vinta is decorated with one to three strips of curvilinear carvings known as bahan-bahan (meaning "bending" or "curving"), which are reminiscent of waves.