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2. Ancient shipbuilding techniques - Wikipedia

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   Ancient boat building methods can be categorized as one of hide, log, sewn, lashed-plank, clinker (and reverse-clinker), shell-first, and frame-first. While the frame-first technique dominates the modern ship construction industry, the ancients relied primarily on the other techniques to build their watercraft. In many cases, these techniques ...

3. Boat building - Wikipedia

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   The schooner Appledore II under construction. Boat building is the design and construction of boats (instead of the larger ships) — and their on-board systems.This includes at minimum the construction of a hull, with any necessary propulsion, mechanical, navigation, safety and other service systems as the craft requires.

4. Shiplift - Wikipedia

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   Whereas "shiplift" is the word that is normally used, the term used by Lloyd's register is "Mechanical Lift Dock". There are two different kinds of platform design, the articulated and the rigid. [1] The articulated platform has hinged connections between the main and the longitudinal beams. A rigid platform, the beams are bolted or welded ...

5. Frame (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   In wooden shipbuilding, each frame is composed of several sections, so that the grain of the wood can follow the curve of the frame. Starting from the keel, these are the floor (which crosses the keel and joins the frame to the keel), the first futtock , the second futtock , the top timber , and the rail stanchion . [ 1 ]

6. Boat lift - Wikipedia

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   240 ft: 7 minutes: Tallest boat lift in Europe. Scharnebeck twin ship lift: Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany: 1974 Vertical caisson: 1350 tons 105.4 m × 15.8 m × 3.4 m 346 ft × 52 ft × 11 ft 38 m 125 ft: 3 minutes: Niederfinow boat lift: Brandenburg, Germany: 1934 Vertical caisson: 85 m × 12 m × 2.5 m 279 ft × 39 ft × 8 ft 36 m 118 ft

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