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2. Aids to Navigation Boat - Wikipedia

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   65-ft Aids to Navigation Boat (ANB) Similar to the 55 ft ANB, there are 2 boats, one is in Galveston, Texas (65402). The additional ten feet is added to the pilothouse and crew quarters. It has a higher capacity crane, with a longer reach and a large "V" cut into the stern platform to allow the boat to more readily maintain contact with an aid ...

3. Navigation light - Wikipedia

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   Watercraft navigation lights must permit other vessels to determine the type and relative angle of a vessel, and thus decide if there is a danger of collision. In general, sailing vessels are required to carry a green light that shines from dead ahead to 2 points (22 + 1 ⁄ 2 °) abaft [note 1] the beam on the starboard side (the right side from the perspective of someone on board facing ...

4. 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 ...

5. Transom (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   Vertical transom and stern of a modern cargo ship. In some boats and ships, a transom is the aft transverse surface of the hull that forms the stern of a vessel. Historically, they are a development from the canoe stern (or "double-ender") wherein which both bow and stern are pointed. Transoms add both strength and width to the stern.

6. Combat rubber raiding craft - Wikipedia

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   A specially-trained coxswain sits at the stern (rear) of the boat and controls it via the tiller arm, attached to an outboard engine. The coxswain is considered the commander of the craft and is ultimately responsible for its operation, regardless of whether a senior-ranking individual is on board.

7. NOAAS Bell M. Shimada - Wikipedia

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   She has a 67-foot (20-meter) knuckle boom and a 60-foot (18-meter) telescopic boom. She has a movable A-frame on her starboard side with a maximum safe working load of 2,979 pounds (1,351 kg) and a large movable A-frame aft with a maximum safe working load of 22,000 pounds (10,000 kg) that serves as a stern gantry.