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2. Lofting - Wikipedia

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   Lofting is the transfer of a Lines Plan to a Full-Sized Plan. This helps to assure that the boat will be accurate in its layout and pleasing in appearance. There are many methods to loft a set of plans. Generally, boat building books have a detailed description of the lofting process, beyond the scope of this article.

3. Caddie (CAD system) - Wikipedia

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   Caddie was created by Anthony Spruyt, an architect from Pretoria, South Africa, in 1985 and was originally called Michael Angelo. [5] The first release version was called Caddie and fit on a single 360 kB floppy disk, and was designed for the IBM Personal Computer XT.

4. Boathouse - Wikipedia

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   A boathouse (or a boat house) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats, normally smaller craft for sports or leisure use. [1] These are typically located on open water, such as on a river. Often the boats stored are rowing boats. Other boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored.

5. Sail plan - Wikipedia

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   A sail plan is a drawing of a sailing craft, viewed from the side, depicting its sails, the spars that carry them and some of the rigging that supports the rig. [1] By extension, "sail plan" describes the arrangement of sails on a craft. [2] [3] A sailing craft may be waterborne (a ship or boat), an iceboat, or a sail-powered land vehicle.

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7. Cunningham (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   Cunningham downhaul. In sailing, a cunningham or cunningham's eye is a type of downhaul used on a Bermuda rigged sailboat to change the shape of a sail. It is named after its inventor, Briggs Cunningham, a victorious America's Cup skipper and yacht builder.

8. Cuddy (cabin) - Wikipedia

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   A cuddy is a small room or cupboard, particularly on a boat. [1] Sometimes a cuddy refers to a small but cosy hut. [2] The origin of the term is not clear. Cuddy was in use in colonial America as early as 1655. [3] The term may derive from the Dutch kajuit, meaning a small cabin, or from the French cahute, meaning a hut. [4]

9. John Alden (naval architect) - Wikipedia

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   The boat, and the crew, completed the journey and it is said that Alden learned how to design a boat that would be resilient in heavy seas and what was important when a vessel was short-handed. His subsequent designs are admired not only for their grace and elegance but for their stability and for the fact that they can, generally, be sailed ...