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A rutter is a mariner's handbook of written sailing directions. Before the advent of nautical charts , rutters were the primary store of geographic information for maritime navigation . It was known as a periplus ("sailing-around" book) in classical antiquity and a portolano ("port book") to medieval Italian sailors in the Mediterranean Sea .
In July 2004 the Yachting Association of Sri Lanka revived the Tri-nation Regatta, in which yachts from India and Pakistan compete with local yachts. [4] The Sailing Nationals are generally held in January and contested by four different dinghy classes: Enterprise ; GP14 ; Optimist and Laser , together with windsurfers.
The oldest sailing directions, dating back to the middle ages, descended directly from the Greek and Roman periplii: in classical times, in the absence of real nautical charts, navigation was carried out using books that described the coast, not necessarily intended for navigation, but more often consisting of reports of previous voyages, or celebrations of the deeds of leaders or rulers.
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Sri Lanka: 52~56 tonnes 22: P410 - P424 P450 - P451 P490 - P492 P497 - P497 Built by Colombo Dockyard for the Sri Lanka Navy. Arrow speed boats Sri Lanka: 154+ [17] Small fast patrol/assault speed boat constructed by the Sri Lanka Navy for use by its littoral warfare units, the Special Boat Squadron (Sri Lanka) and the Rapid Action Boat ...
The acquisition of the catamaran and outrigger boat technology by the non-Austronesian peoples in Sri Lanka and southern India is the result of very early Austronesian contact with the region, including the Maldives and Laccadive Islands. This is estimated to have occurred around 1000 to 600 BC and onwards, and led to the development of India ...
The Palk strait extends between Pamban island in the south eastern tip of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Thalaimannar in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It connects the Palk Bay in the Bay of Bengal in the north with the Gulf of Mannar in the Laccadive sea in the south. It stretches for about 137 km (85 mi) and is 64 to 137 km (40 to 85 ...
The physics of sailing arises from a balance of forces between the wind powering the sailing craft as it passes over its sails and the resistance by the sailing craft against being blown off course, which is provided in the water by the keel, rudder, underwater foils and other elements of the underbody of a sailboat, on ice by the runners of an ...