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2. Marine canvas - Wikipedia

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   Marine canvas is typically used to protect materials susceptible to UV damage like varnished wood, non-UV resistant plastics, and outdoor stored sails. Other boat specific uses include hatch covers for interior sun protection and winch covers for protection from deterioration and fouling due to seawater, rain, and dirt exposure. [5]

3. Plastiki - Wikipedia

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   12,500 PET bottles used as flotation [1] The Plastiki is a 60-foot (18 m) catamaran made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and other recycled PET plastic and waste products. [ 2 ] Michael Pawlyn [ 3 ] of Exploration Architecture worked on the concept design with David de Rothschild and helped to shape some of the key ideas.

4. Pedalo - Wikipedia

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   Water bike on Lake St. Clair (Michigan) Pedalo at the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 A paddle boat on Geneva Lake (Wisconsin). Boats in Japan celebrating spring with a swan pedalo accidentally running into a row boat, 2022 Pedalos in Brazil (called pedalinhos) Human-powered watercraft: aqua-cycle water trikes in the Pacific Ocean with Diamond Head, Hawaii in the background Paddle boats located ...

5. Paddling - Wikipedia

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   Man paddling a canoe. Paddling, in regard to waterborne transport, is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using at least one hand-held paddle.The paddle, which consists of one or two blades joined to a shaft, is also used to steer the vessel via generating a difference in propulsion between the two sides of the watercraft.

6. Paddle steamer - Wikipedia

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   A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, whereby the first uses were wheelers driven by animals or humans.

7. Coracle - Wikipedia

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   The coracle is propelled by means of a broad-bladed paddle, which traditionally varies in design between different rivers. It is used in a sculling action, the blade describing a figure-of-eight pattern in the water. The paddle is used towards the front of the coracle, pulling the boat forward, with the paddler facing in the direction of travel ...