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  2. Sheet (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    A mainsheet is a line connected to the boom which allows a sailor to control the speed of a boat. The jib sheet attaches to the clew of the jib, and controls it. The jib has a sheet on each side, only one of which (the leeward one) will be in use at one time. The spinnaker sheet attaches to the clew(s) of the spinnaker, if carried. A ...

  3. Polar diagram (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    A polar diagram, or polar plot, is a graph that shows a sailboat's potential speed over a range of wind speeds and relative wind angles. [1] It normally consists of the right side of a line chart with the radius representing the yacht speed and the angle representing the wind direction blowing from top to bottom. Several lines are normally ...

  4. Optimist (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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    It was the biggest hull Clark Mills could make from two 4 ft by 8 ft sheets. Just in front of a bulkhead, which partitions the boat nearly in half, is the daggerboard case. Right behind it on the centerline of the hull floor are attached a block and a ratchet block. These anchor the sheet and a block on the boom

  5. Performance Handicap Racing Fleet - Wikipedia

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    The process of determining the PHRF for an individual boat begins with the regional PHRF rating, then adjustments are made for the individual attributes of the boat such as: modifications to the rig, the size of the largest foresail (jib or genoa), the size of the spinnakers, type of keel (full, fin, wing etc.), the number of blades on the propeller, and the style of the propeller (fixed ...

  6. Comparison of office suites - Wikipedia

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    Portable Document Format (.pdf) ISO 32000 [ae] Ability Office: Yes Yes No Yes Export Apache OpenOffice: Yes Native format No Import Yes with plugin Calligra Suite: Import Native format No Import Export [af] Collabora Online: Yes Native format Yes [ag] Yes Yes Feng Office Community Edition: No No No No No GNU TeXmacs: No No No No Export Google ...

  7. Portsmouth Yardstick - Wikipedia

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    Each boat's time is adjusted with the formula, and then the adjusted scores are compared to determine the outcome of the race. For example, a PD Racer (a semi-open homebuilt class, and the slowest listed boat in the USA scheme) has a D-PN of 140, and an A-Scow (the fastest listed centreboard boat) has a D-PN of 61.3.

  8. Length overall - Wikipedia

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    This length is important while docking the ship. It is the most commonly used way of expressing the size of a ship, and is also used for calculating the cost of a marina berth [1] (for example, £2.50 per metre LOA). LOA is usually measured on the hull alone. [2] For sailing ships, this may exclude the bowsprit and other fittings added to the hull.

  9. Template:Infobox sailboat specifications/testcases - Wikipedia

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    This is the template test cases page for the sandbox of Template:Infobox sailboat specifications Purge this page to update the examples. If there are many examples of a complicated template, later ones may break due to limits in MediaWiki ; see the HTML comment " NewPP limit report " in the rendered page.