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The Skimmer is a small, single-handed, recreational dinghy, built predominantly of wood planking. It has a catboat single-sail rig, a single chine hull , a transom-hung rudder and a pivoting centreboard keel .
The Sea Skimmer was a leisure Personal Watercraft (PWC) unique within the family of Personal Watercraft, whereas the operator laid prone on the boat and steered with shifting leg motions and body weight to control the craft, reaching speeds up to 25 MPH. The Sea Skimmer (renamed Aqua Skimmer) preceded the modern
Skimmer (device), for getting data from a credit card for later fraudulent use; Skimmer (machine), for removing oil from a water surface; Skimmer (spa), for removing oil from spa and swimming pools water surface; Protein skimmer or foam fractionator, a device used mostly in saltwater aquaria; Skimmer (dinghy), an American sailboat design from 1933
A sea of boaters in New York's Times Square, July 1921. Being made of straw, the boater was and is generally regarded as a warm-weather hat. In the days when all men in Western Europe and the US wore hats when out of doors, "Straw Hat Day", the day when men switched from wearing their winter hats to their summer hats, was seen as a sign of the beginning of summer.
An oil skimmer is a device that is designed to remove oil floating on a liquid surface. They are commonly used to recover oil from oil spills in water, or in Industrial situations where waters are contaminated with oil. Oil skimmers are designed to remove free floating oil and are not water treatment devices.
Do you know what to look for in case there might be a skimming device?
All CCG vessels are painted uniformly regardless of their use. They are characterized by a red hull and white superstructure, designed to look like a "floating Canadian flag". Their hulls bear a (primarily) white stripe raked forward at a 60-degree angle on each side forward.
These boats tend to be less heavily crewed in relation to their length than the traditional Australian Skiff Classes. The term is even used for some single-handed boats like the Musto Skiff which are far removed from the heavily crewed original boats. The SKUD 18 is a two-person keelboat which claims strong influence from skiff development. [15]