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2. Belaying pin - Wikipedia

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   A belaying pin is composed of a round handle and cylindrical shaft. The shaft is inserted into a hole in various strategically located wooden pinrails (lining the inside of the bulwarks, surrounding the base of masts, or free-standing, called fife rails) up to the base of the handle.

3. Bitts - Wikipedia

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   Shipboard bitts Shoreside bitts. Bitts are paired vertical wooden or metal posts mounted either aboard a ship or on a wharf, pier, or quay.The posts are used to secure mooring lines, ropes, hawsers, or cables. [1]

4. Sail components - Wikipedia

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   Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may be classified in a variety of ways, including by its orientation to the vessel (e.g. fore-and-aft) and its shape, (e.g. (a)symmetrical, triangular, quadrilateral, etc.).

5. Category:Sailing ship components - Wikipedia

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6. Semi-trailer aerodynamic device - Wikipedia

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   Semi-trailer aerodynamic devices are devices affixed to semi-trailers, for the purpose of reducing aerodynamic drag caused by air turbulence. The two major types of device in use are trailer skirts (or side skirts ), affixed to the underside of trailers, and trailer tails (or boat tails , or rear fairings ), affixed to the rear.

7. Glasflügel H-201 - Wikipedia

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   The Standard Libelle (201) is of similar glassfibre construction to the H-301 Libelle. The changes required consisted of removing the flaps and tail braking parachute, fitting a fixed, instead of retractable, monowheel and raising the height of the canopy. A new Wortmann wing section was featured and terminal velocity dive brakes were fitted.