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Early Sea Snarks featured an unclad one-piece injection-molded EPS hull and the hull weighed approximately 30 lbs. Later versions, marketed s the Sunflower, Super Snark and Super Sea Snark featured a vacuum formed layer of ABS (later ASA) [7] bonded over the EPS hull for a hull weight of 43 lbs. Snark Products patented the cladding process, which eliminated the possibility of voids within the ...
Evinrude Outboard Motors was a North American company that built a major brand of two-stroke outboard motors for boats. Founded by Ole Evinrude in Milwaukee , Wisconsin in 1907, it was formerly owned by the publicly traded Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) since 1935 but OMC filed for bankruptcy in 2000.
Pages in category "Type 35 torpedo boats" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The pivoting design allows the outboard motor to be swiveled by the operator in almost all directions: Sideways for direction, up and down to change the thrust line according to speed or bow lift, elevate completely out of water for easy starting, placing the drive shaft and the propeller forward along the side of the boat for reverse, or put ...
USS Regulus hard aground in 1971 due to a typhoon: after three weeks of effort, Naval salvors deemed it unsalvageable.. Marine salvage takes many forms, and may involve anything from refloating a ship that has gone aground or sunk as well as necessary work to prevent loss of the vessel, such as pumping water out of a ship—thereby keeping the ship afloat—extinguishing fires on board, to ...
The first of the improved Type "TR" boats was assigned hull number 3824 after it was completed in mid-1931; in total, 69 were built, ending with hull number 4928. [3] Retired Type "TRS" at Umpqua River Lighthouse Museum; note ninth scupper at bow. The Type "TRS" ("TR"-Simplified) motor lifeboat was designed to reduce weight and cost. [4]
Harry J. Defoe organized the Defoe Boat and Motor Works in 1905 on the Saginaw River in Bay City, Michigan. At that time, the firm built "knock-down" boats and gasoline powered boats for business and pleasure. In 1917, the company got its first Navy contract for five Spent Torpedo Chasers.
J/35 interior J/35. The J/35 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass over a balsa core and with wooden trim. It has a masthead sloop rig with aluminum spars, a raked stem, a reverse transom with a swim ladder, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel.