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2. Coracle - Wikipedia

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   It is used in a sculling action, the blade describing a figure-of-eight pattern in the water. The paddle is used towards the front of the coracle, pulling the boat forward, with the paddler facing in the direction of travel. [6] The Welsh Coracle is intended to be carried on the back; Welsh saying is Llwyth dyn ei gorwgl (load of a man is his ...

3. List of equipment of the United States Coast Guard - Wikipedia

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   The M240 is also used on land by Port Security Units [35] M249: 5.56×45mm NATO: Light machine gun United States: Used on various boats and primarily by Deployable Specialized Forces: M60: 7.62×51mm NATO: General purpose, medium machine gun United States: Used on various boats such as the Defender-class boat [36] Browning M2HB.50 BMG: Heavy ...

4. Reed boat - Wikipedia

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   The boats, called balsa, vary in size from small fishing canoes to thirty metres long. They are still used on Lake Titicaca, located on the border of Peru and Bolivia, 3810 m above sea level. [10] The Uros are an indigenous people pre-dating the Incas. They live, still today, on man-made floating islands scattered across Lake Titicaca.

5. Gondola - Wikipedia

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   Gondola. The gondola (English: / ˈɡɒndələ /, Italian: [ˈɡondola]; Venetian: góndoła, Venetian: [ˈɡoŋdoɰa]) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. It is typically propelled by a gondolier, who uses a rowing oar, which is not fastened to the hull, in a sculling ...

6. Caïque - Wikipedia

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   Caïque is also the term for a light skiff or long, narrow rowboat used especially on the Bosporus, Turkey. [3] Historically, a caïque was a boat of 5–6 meters (16–20 ft) in length, and 1 meter (3 ft) in width, used mainly for transportation. It had a shape similar to that of a skate.

7. Skiff - Wikipedia

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   It is a round-bottomed clinker-built rowing boat that is still very common on the River Thames and other rivers in England. Rowing skiffs became very popular in Victorian Britain, and a skiff journey up the River Thames is described in Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome. [8] These skiffs could carry a sail and could be used for camping.