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2. Stockless anchor - Wikipedia

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   The stockless anchor is an improved version of the Admiralty anchor it is derived from. It has two flukes that pivot on the same plane perpendicular to the shank. [2] The weight of the shank and accompanying chain, or the shank angled under tension, keep the anchor laying flat on the sea floor.

3. Anchor - Wikipedia

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   The most successful of these patent anchors, the Trotman Anchor, [16] introduced a pivot at the centre of the crown where the arms join the shank, allowing the "idle" upper arm to fold against the shank. When deployed the lower arm may fold against the shank tilting the tip of the fluke upwards, so each fluke has a tripping palm at its base, to ...

4. Cathead - Wikipedia

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   An anchor secured to the ship's side. The projecting beam the anchor hangs from when not secured is a cathead (left). The anchor has a stock (cross-piece, in this case wooden) below, and curved flukes above (end-on); the shank is the near-vertical metal bar running between them, lashed with the shank painter Cathead on bow of the barque James Craig; the cat tail protrudes onto the deck and is ...

5. Category:Ship anchors - Wikipedia

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6. History of the anchor - Wikipedia

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   Wasteneys Smith's anchor is composed of three main parts, the shank and crown which form one forging, and the two flukes or arms which are separate castings. A bolt passes through the crown of the anchor, connecting the flukes to it; to prevent the flukes working off the connecting through bolt, two smaller bolts pass through the flukes at ...

7. Category:Watercraft components - Wikipedia

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8. Jigging - Wikipedia

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   A fish-jighead hook. The weighted "head" of a jig, or jighead, can consist of many different shapes and colors along with different features. [2] The simplest and most common is a round head, but others include fish head-shaped, coned-shaped, cylinder-shaped and hybrid varieties that resemble spoons or spinnerbaits.

9. Chuck (engineering) - Wikipedia

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   This is the most common size and takes a hammer up to 4 kg. The wedges grip an area of 75 mm 2 (0.116 sq in) and the shank is inserted 40 mm into the chuck. SDS-top A 14 mm shank similar to SDS-plus, designed for hammers from 2 to 5 kg. The grip area is increased to 212 mm 2 (0.329 sq in) and the shank is inserted 70 mm. This size remained ...