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2. Standing rigging - Wikipedia

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   On modern yachts, standing rigging is often stainless steel wire, Nitronic-50 stainless steel rod or synthetic fiber. Semi-rigid stainless steel wire is by far the most common as it combines extreme strength, relative ease of assembling and rigging with reliability. Unlike rigid stainless steel rod, it is comparatively easy to recognize wear ...

3. Stanchion - Wikipedia

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   In yachting, metal bars that hold the life-lines around a boat's perimeter. In river rafting, metal bars that hold the yokes for oars. In ice hockey, the posts used on the dasher boards to hold panes of glass in place. This is a common vernacular term in the sport, although in the industry they are simply called posts.

4. Jack Holder - Wikipedia

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   Elite Shield. 2018. KO Cup. 2022. League Cup. 2023. Polish Ekstraliga Champion. Jack Holder (born 23 March 1996) is an Australian motorcycle speedway rider. [1] Jack is a World team champion and his brother Chris Holder is a former World individual champion.

5. US Navy rescued two Iranian mariners in distress last Friday ...

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   The US Navy rescued two Iranian mariners in distress last Friday in international waters, US Central Command said in a news release.. Sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group ...

6. Mars Attacks! - Wikipedia

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   Mars Attacks! is a 1996 American black comedy science fiction film [3] directed by Tim Burton, who also co-produced it with Larry J. Franco. The screenplay by Jonathan Gems was based on the Topps trading card series of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Jack Nicholson (in a dual role), Glenn Close, Annette Bening ...

7. Mast (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   Mast (sailing) The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes include carrying sails, spars, and derricks, giving necessary height to a navigation light, look-out position, signal yard, control position, radio aerial or signal lamp. [1]