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The oakum was sold for £4 10s (equivalent to £559 in 2023) per hundredweight (112 lb, 51 kg). [4] At Coldbath Fields Prison , the men's counterpart to Tothill Fields, prisoners had to pick 2 lb (910 g) per day unless sentenced to hard labour, in which case they had to pick between 3 and 6 lb (1.4 and 2.7 kg) of oakum per day.
"Worming" the line is designed to fill in the channels (the contlines) between the strands in order to keep water out and to allow tighter, smoother wrapping of the next layers by giving the rope a more cylindrical shape. Lengths of "small stuff" or string are led along the lay of the rope between the strands, following the twist so that they ...
The one sheet boat (OSB, cf. oriented strand board) is an outgrowth of the stitch and glue technique. The OSB is a boat that can be built using a single sheet of 4 foot by 8 foot plywood (1.22 m × 2.44 m). Some additional wood is often used, for supports, chines, or as a transom, though some can be built entirely with the sheet of plywood ...
It displaces 8,000 lb (3,629 kg), carries 2,600 lb (1,179 kg) of lead ballast and has a draft of 4.75 ft (1.45 m) with its standard fin keel. It is fitted with a Universal Atomic 4 gasoline engine of 13 hp (10 kW) and carries 20 U.S. gallons (76 L; 17 imp gal) of fuel and 60 U.S. gallons (230 L; 50 imp gal) of fresh water.
The boat is 30' 4" in length with a 9' 4" beam, and weighs a total of 11,500 lb (5,200 kg) when fully loaded with gear and engine. The 30 footer has a single Detroit Diesel 6V92TI engine, configured by Johnson Towers rated at 375 horsepower (280 kW). The throttles are manually controlled, and the boat has a single screw and rudder.
LEXAN is the flagship product of SABIC Innovative Plastics (formerly GE Plastics) and is used in everything from CDs and DVDs to car bumpers. Though Dr. Fox is often credited with the invention of LEXAN resin, the patent and agreement to share the plastic between Bayer and General Electric is much more complicated than the simplistic "Father of ...
This is used to slow the speed of the boat, or to move astern when manoeuvring. [3] back and fill A method of keeping a square-rigged vessel under control while drifting with the tide along a narrow channel. The ship lies broadside to the current, with the main topsail backed and the fore and mizzen topsail full: essentially a hove-to position.
The Olson 30 is a sailboat designed by George Olson of Santa Cruz, CA around 1978. Olson was a surfer and surfboard shaper who decided to design a 30' ultra light displacement boat while on a delivery from Honolulu to Santa Cruz on Merlin, a 68' Bill Lee designed and built [1] ultralight sailboat which had competed in the biennial Transpac race in 1977.