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  2. Felucca - Wikipedia

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    Felucca on the Nile at Luxor. A felucca [a] is a traditional wooden sailing boat with a single sail used in the Mediterranean, including around Malta and Tunisia.However, in Egypt, Iraq and Sudan (particularly along the Nile and in the Sudanese protected areas of the Red Sea), its rig can consist of two lateen sails as well as just one.

  3. Boats du Rhône - Wikipedia

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    Boats du Rhône is a series of two sketches (a small one in a letter, [1] the other very large and detailed with a reed pen) and three oil paintings, listed below, created by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh while living in Arles, France, during August, 1888.

  4. List of schooners - Wikipedia

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    National Historic Landmark former cargo boat; oldest surviving sailing vessel built in Maine 2 masted gaff [50] Lily: 1978 Stuart, Florida: Tourism/charter vessel. Schooner rig with a scow hull. May have been the last boat purpose built to haul cargo commercially under sail power in the United States. Originally known as Lily of Tisbury. 2 ...

  5. Man sailing world in boat he built in garden shed - AOL

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    Mr Waugh is one of 15 people worldwide taking part in the Mini Globe Race, which will see competitors sailing identical Class Globe 580 boats. He has built his 19ft (5.8m) boat, called Little Wren ...

  6. Port and starboard - Wikipedia

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    Oncoming boat indicating its port (red) and starboard (green) sides The term starboard derives from the Old English steorbord , meaning the side on which the ship is steered. Before ships had rudders on their centrelines, they were steered with a steering oar at the stern of the ship on the right hand side of the ship, because more people are ...

  7. 8 people still missing after Egypt tour boat sinks on Red Sea ...

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    Authorities in Egypt say a luxury yacht that set off with 44 people from the Red Sea port of Ghalib for a week-long diving trip sank, with 32 rescued and 8 still missing.

  8. Egypt tourist boat: Everything we know about the incident in ...

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    Two Britons are among the missing after a dive boat was hit by a “huge wave” and capsized off the Red Sea coast of Egypt on Monday 25 November. In a rescue operation, 28 people were saved from ...

  9. Marine art - Wikipedia

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    Naval cadets were now encouraged to learn drawing, as new coastal charts made at sea were expected to be accompanied by "coastal profiles", or sketches of the land behind, and artists were appointed to teach the subject at naval schools, including John Thomas Serres, who published Liber Nauticus, and Instructor in the Art of Marine Drawings in ...