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2. Planing (boat) - Wikipedia

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   Planing (boat) A Contender dinghy planing on a broad reach. Note the typical way the bow lifts up while the stern skims over the water. Planing (/ ˈpleɪnɪŋ / PLAY-ning) is the mode of operation for a waterborne craft in which its weight is predominantly supported by hydrodynamic lift, rather than hydrostatic lift (buoyancy).

3. Foxton Inclined Plane Trust - Wikipedia

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   The Foxton Inclined Plane Trust is a waterway society and a registered charity on the Grand Union Canal in Foxton, Leicestershire, England, UK. It was founded in 1980 to promote the restoration of the Victorian boat lift or inclined plane, a unique and famous piece of canal history. The Trust runs the Foxton Canal Museum which was opened in ...

4. Topping lift - Wikipedia

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   Topping lift. The topping lift (more rarely known as an uphaul) is a line which applies upward force on a boom on a sailboat . Part of the running rigging, topping lifts are primarily used to hold a boom up when the sail is lowered. [ 1] This line would run from near the free end of the boom (s) forward to the top of the mast.

5. Shiplift - Wikipedia

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   Shiplift. A shiplift is a modern alternative for a slipway, a floating dry dock or a graving dry dock. A shiplift is used to dry dock and launch ships. It consists of a structural platform that is lifted and lowered exactly vertically, synchronously by a number of hoists. First, the platform is lowered underwater, then the ship is floated above ...

6. Falkirk Wheel - Wikipedia

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   A timelapse from inside a boat. The Falkirk Wheel (Scottish Gaelic: Cuibhle na h-Eaglaise Brice) is a rotating boat lift in Tamfourhill, Falkirk, in central Scotland, connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal. It opened in 2002 as part of the Millennium Link project, reconnecting the two canals for the first time since the 1930s.

7. VB-10,000 (ship) - Wikipedia

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   The VB-10,000 is a heavy-lift twin- gantry catamaran consisting of two truss space frames atop two barges. The design was derived from Versabar's earlier VB-4000 (aka Bottom Feeder), [1][2] which was developed to clear debris from toppled oil drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of sending divers to section the wreckage into pieces ...