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2. Sea anchor - Wikipedia

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   A conical sea anchor with tripline (from an illustration in The Sailors Handbook by Halsey C. Herreshoff). An early wooden drogue. A sea anchor (also known as a parachute anchor, drift anchor, drift sock, para-anchor or boat brake) is a device that is streamed from a boat in heavy weather. Its purpose is to stabilize the vessel and to limit ...

3. WinTech Racing - Wikipedia

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   WinTech Racing offers a wide variety of racing shells, recreational shells, adaptive rowing shells, wakeless launches, oars, and spare parts for various boat models. There are several different models of racing shell, including eights (8+), fours (4+), quads and convertible quads/fours (4x/-), pairs and doubles (2x/-), and singles (1x).

4. Stern sculling - Wikipedia

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   Chinese sampan propelled by yáolǔ via single-oar sculling. Stern sculling is the use of a single oar over the stern of a boat to propel it with side-to-side motions that create forward lift in the water. [1] The strict terminology of propulsion by oar is complex and contradictory, and varies by context. Stern sculling may also simply be ...

5. Sculling - Wikipedia

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   Sculling is the use of oars to propel a boat by moving them through the water on both sides of the craft, or moving one oar over the stern. A long, narrow boat with sliding seats, rigged with two oars per rower may be referred to as a scull , its oars may be referred to as sculls and a person rowing it referred to as sculler .

6. Corvus (boarding device) - Wikipedia

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   The engine was probably used in the prow of the ship, where a pole and a system of pulleys allowed the bridge to be raised and lowered. There was a heavy spike shaped like a bird's beak on the underside of the device, which was designed to pierce and anchor into an enemy ship's deck when the boarding bridge was lowered.

7. Anchor (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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   Anchor, part of a microdermal implant in body modification; Anchor escapement, a type of escapement used in pendulum clocks; Screw anchor, to secure a screw in a brittle material; Boat anchor (metaphor), a colloquial term for outdated equipment; Digital anchor, uses GPS and electronic compass to hold a boat's position