Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Boating Party depicts an unknown woman, baby, and man in a sailboat. [10] The boat has a canoe stern, is boomless, and has three thwarts. Cassatt uses bold, dark colors to depict the boatman and bright yellow to contrast the boat and its passengers. The child is held in the woman’s lap with the man facing them and his back to the audience ...
FV Pelican was a party boat, or head boat, operating out of Montauk, New York, which capsized on September 1, 1951, killing 45 passengers and crew, including the captain Eddie Carroll. Background [ edit ]
Private boats of the shÅgun from the Heian through the Edo periods were very lavishly decorated. Inside, a yakatabune has tatami mats and Japanese low tables that resemble an upper-class Japanese home; in fact, it means "home-style boat", and were basically for entertaining guests in the old days.
A Higgins Industries torpedo boat plant in New Orleans, 1942. Higgins Industries was the company owned by Andrew Higgins based in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.. Higgins Industries is most famous for the design and production of the Higgins boat, an amphibious landing craft referred to as LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), which was used extensively in the Allied forces' D-Day ...
Bolger was a prolific writer and wrote many books, the last being Boats with an Open Mind, as well as hundreds of magazine articles on small craft designs, chiefly in Woodenboat, Small Boat Journal and Messing About in Boats. Bolger died on May 24, 2009, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His wife explained that "[h]is mind had slipped in the ...
built as Dmitriy Furmanov class river cruise ship; rebuilt to the biggest party boat of Europe: Ocharovannyy Strannik: 1956: 95.8 m (314 ft) 150: Kazan Shipping: Rodina / 588: Nizhny Novgorod: → : RRR 142507: originally, the Andrey Vyshinskiy, formerly Taras Shevchenko, Sergey Kuchkin, Taras Shevchenko: Ogni Bolshogo Goroda: 1977: 125.0 m ...
Since being established as a one-design class, boats have been built by numerous other manufacturers, including Bashford Boat Builders (later known as Sydney Yachts), Pamcraft and Phil Smidmore (trading as Pacesetter Etchells PTY.) in Australia, [3] [4] Ontario Yachts in Canada, and Robertson and Sons Ltd., David Heritage Racing Yachts and ...
Rothman contacted Uniflite, a Bellingham, Washington boat builder, and by 1974 the first Valiant rolled off their line. The design combined the classic canoe stern cruiser shape with a fin keel and skeg hung rudder instead of the traditional full keel. [4] These two starts led to more design commissions for Islander Yachts and Tayana Yachts.