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  2. Mooring - Wikipedia

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    Mooring involves (a) beaching the boat, (b) drawing in the mooring point on the line (where the marker buoy is located), (c) attaching to the mooring line to the boat, and (d) then pulling the boat out and away from the beach so that it can be accessed at all tides.

  3. Berth (moorings) - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of berth types based on the method of construction: [1] Solid structure berth In these berths, a solid vertical structure is created to contain fill material which is brought all the way to the structure.

  4. Marine navigation - Wikipedia

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    Navigation (from the Latin word navigatio) is the act of sailing or voyaging.Nautical (from Latin nautĭca, and this from Greek ναυτική [τέχνη] nautikḗ [téjne] "[art of] sailing" and from ναύτης nautes "sailor") is that pertaining to navigation and the science and art of sailing.

  5. Portolan chart - Wikipedia

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    A broader definition of portolan chart accepts any sea chart or atlas that meets the following series of stylistic requirements: drawn by hand, with a network of rhumb lines that emanate from the center of hidden circles, focused on the coasts and islands, with place names written perpendicular to the coastline on the land side and with sparse ...

  6. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Mediterranean mooring. Also Med moor and Tahitian mooring. A method of mooring stern-to. merchant marine A collective term for all merchant ships registered in a given country and the civilians (especially those of that nationality) who man them; the ships and personnel in combination are said to constitute that country's merchant marine.

  7. History of the anchor - Wikipedia

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    Many modern moorings remain reliant upon a large rock as the primary element of their design. However, using pure mass to resist the forces of a storm only works well as a permanent mooring; trying to move a large enough rock to another bay is nearly impossible.

  8. Mooring (oceanography) - Wikipedia

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    Mooring as deployed in Fram Strait with top buoy, a CTD-sensor, two rotor current meters, acoustic release and train wheels as anchor. A mooring in oceanography is a collection of devices connected to a wire and anchored on the sea floor. It is the Eulerian way of measuring ocean currents, since a mooring is

  9. Sailing ship - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of rigging on a square-rigged ship. [60] Until the mid-19th century all vessels' masts were made of wood formed from a single or several pieces of timber which typically consisted of the trunk of a conifer tree. From the 16th century, vessels were often built of a size requiring masts taller and thicker than could be made from single ...