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2. Big Chute Marine Railway - Wikipedia

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   View from a vessel exiting the submerged carriage. Big Chute Marine Railway is a patent slip at lock 44 (in the township of Georgian Bay) of the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in individual cradles over a change of height of about 60 feet (18 m). It is the only marine railway (or canal ...

3. Topping lift - Wikipedia

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   Topping lift. The topping lift (more rarely known as an uphaul) is a line which applies upward force on a boom on a sailboat. Part of the running rigging, topping lifts are primarily used to hold a boom up when the sail is lowered. [1] This line would run from near the free end of the boom (s) forward to the top of the mast.

4. Planing (boat) - Wikipedia

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   Planing (boat) A Contender dinghy planing on a broad reach. Note the typical way the bow lifts up while the stern skims over the water. Planing (/ ˈpleɪnɪŋ / PLAY-ning) is the mode of operation for a waterborne craft in which its weight is predominantly supported by hydrodynamic lift, rather than hydrostatic lift (buoyancy).

5. Boat lift - Wikipedia

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   A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock. It may be vertically moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England, rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland, or operate on an inclined plane, like the Ronquières inclined plane in ...

6. VB-10,000 (ship) - Wikipedia

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   Beam. 314 feet (96 m) Draught. 20 feet (6 m) Propulsion. (8) 1,000 HP azimuthing thrusters (4/barge) The VB-10,000 is a heavy-lift twin- gantry catamaran consisting of two truss space frames atop two barges. The design was derived from Versabar's earlier VB-4000 (aka Bottom Feeder), [1][2] which was developed to clear debris from toppled oil ...

7. Peterborough Lift Lock - Wikipedia

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   The Peterborough Lift Lock is a boat lift located on the Trent Canal in the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and is Lock 21 on the Trent-Severn Waterway. For many years, the lock's dual lifts were the highest hydraulic boat lifts in the world, raising boats 65 ft (20 m). This was a considerable accomplishment in the first years of the ...