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An empty boat trailer. A boat trailer is designed to launch, retrieve, carry and sometimes store boats. As of 2024, the cost of a boat trailer can be anywhere between $700 to $8000, depending on the size and number of axles the trailer has. [1]
Chain-boat navigation [1] or chain-ship navigation [2] is a little-known chapter in the history of shipping on European rivers. From around the middle of the 19th century, vessels called chain boats were used to haul strings of barges upstream by using a fixed chain lying on the bed of a river.
Chainplate on a Bavaria 35 Match without shrouds mounted.. A chainplate is a metal plate used to fasten a shroud or stay to the hull of a sailboatto support the mast that sails are attached to.
Small (80 mm (3 + 5 ⁄ 32 in)) turnbuckleA turnbuckle, stretching screw or bottlescrew is a device for adjusting the tension or length of ropes, cables, tie rods, and other tensioning systems.
The chains, also called the chain-wales or channels, [1] were small platforms, built on either side of the hull of a ship, used to provide a wide purchase for the shrouds, and to assist in the practice of depth sounding. The chains provided a platform for a 'leadsman', the sailor assigned to swing the sounding line, or 'lead' into the water. [2]
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A cable ferry (including the types chain ferry, swing ferry, floating bridge, or punt) is a ferry that is guided (and in many cases propelled) across a river or large body of water by cables connected to both shores. Early cable ferries often used either rope or steel chains, with the
Chain boat tow on the Main (ca. 1896) Chain boat of the Mainkette-AG in front of the "Mainkai" in Frankfurt After navigation on the Main had lost more and more of its transport capacity to the railway and the use of wheeled steam tugs had failed due to the shallow navigation channel of the Main, Heino Held, owner of the Mainz-based forwarding and coal trading company C.J.H. Held & Cie., had ...