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  2. Little Harbor 44 - Wikipedia

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    All through-hull fittings are equipped with bronze seacocks. There are two manual bilge pumps, as well as an automatic electric bilge pump. There are eight cockpit and deck scuppers. There is a pressurized water system and manual fresh and salt water pumps in the galley. The galley sink has a macerator pump which also serves the ice box drain.

  3. Bulkhead (partition) - Wikipedia

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    By the Athenian trireme era (500 BC), [1] the hull was strengthened by enclosing the bow behind the ram, forming a bulkhead compartment. Instead of using bulkheads to protect ships against rams, Greeks preferred to reinforce the hull with extra timber along the waterline, making larger ships almost resistant to ramming by smaller ones. [2]

  4. Rivet - Wikipedia

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    Installing rivets on M3 tank hull A drive rivet is a form of blind rivet that has a short mandrel protruding from the head that is driven in with a hammer to flare out the end inserted in the hole. This is commonly used to rivet wood panels into place since the hole does not need to be drilled all the way through the panel, producing an ...

  5. Hull maintenance technician - Wikipedia

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    A hull maintenance technician using a cutting torch aboard the USS Nimitz. Hull maintenance technician (abbreviated as HT) is a United States Navy occupational rating.. Hull maintenance technicians plan, supervise, and perform tasks necessary for fabrication, installation and repair of all types of shipboard structures, plumbing, sheet metal fabrication, carpentry and piping systems; organize ...

  6. Seacock - Wikipedia

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    A seacock is a valve on the hull of a boat or a ship, permitting water to flow into the vessel, such as for cooling an engine or for a salt water faucet; or out of the boat, such as for a sink drain or a toilet. Seacocks are often a Kingston valve.

  7. Stuffing box - Wikipedia

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    The stuffing box prevents water from entering the boat's hull. In many small fiberglass boats, for example, the stuffing box is mounted inboard near the point the shaft exits the hull. The "box" is a cylindrical assembly, typically of bronze, comprising a sleeve threaded on one end to accept adjusting and locking nuts.

  8. Boat building - Wikipedia

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    With "frame first", the hull shape is established by setting up the frames on the keel and then fastening the planking on the outside. [3]: 8 Some types of wood construction include: Carvel, in which a smooth hull is formed by fastening flush-fitting planks to underlying frame s. The planks may be curved in cross section like barrel staves.

  9. Traveller (nautical fitting) - Wikipedia

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    A traveller is a part of the rigging of a boat or ship that provides a moving attachment point for a rope, sail or yard to a fixed part of the vessel. It may take the form of anything from a simple ring on a metal bar or a spar to, especially in a modern yacht, a more complex "car" – a component with bearing-mounted wheels running on a shaped aluminium extrusion.