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  2. Yard (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    The fore royal yard on the Prince William. Prince William's royal yards are the highest and smallest yards on the ship, are made of wood, and are "lifting yards" that can be raised along a section of the mast. Here it is in the lowered position. A yard is a spar on a mast from which sails are set.

  3. Spaulding Wooden Boat Center - Wikipedia

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    The Spaulding Marine Center in Sausalito (2007) The working boatyard at Spaulding Marine Center Spaulding boatyard at night. The Spaulding Marine Center, (formally the Spaulding Wooden Boat Center), in Sausalito, California, is a living museum where one can go back in time to experience the days when craftsmen and sailors used traditional skills to build, sail or row classic wooden boats on ...

  4. Alexander Robertson & Sons - Wikipedia

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    The yard was now capable of building yachts of any size, and it was hoped some 23-metre work would follow. Robertson was a rather astute businessman so, as the yard was booming in the early 1900s, he began buying up properties along the shore of the Holy Loch to stop other boat yards being built. [8] Alexander Robertson and Sons

  5. Boat building - Wikipedia

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    Cold moulding is a composite method of wooden boat building that uses two or more layers of thin wood, called veneers, oriented in different directions, resulting in a strong monocoque structure, similar to a fibreglass hull but substantially lighter. Sometimes composed of a base layer of strip planking followed by multiple veneers.

  6. Matthew Turner (shipbuilder) - Wikipedia

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    This yard constructed at least 154 wooden-hulled ships. [1] Turner was greatly admired by shipbuilder Henry Hall, of the Hall Brothers shipyard in Port Blakely. He described the "Turner Model" of sailing rig, using the Bermudan sail, a "fore and aft sail without gaff, being a large

  7. Spar (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    A spar is a pole of wood, metal or lightweight materials such as carbon fibre used in the rigging of a sailing vessel to carry or support its sail.These include yards, booms, and masts, which serve both to deploy sail and resist compressive and bending forces, as well as the bowsprit and spinnaker pole.

  8. Lars Halvorsen Sons - Wikipedia

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    Lars Halvorsen Sons Industry boatbuilding Founded 1925 Founder Lars Halvorsen Headquarters Sydney, Australia Subsidiaries Kong & Halvorsen Marine & Engineering Company Lars Halvorsen Sons was an Australian pleasure craft and boat building company, described as "one of the most famous [names] in Australian marine engineering". Early history Halvorsen Boats traces its roots to 1887 when Halvor ...

  9. List of large sailing yachts - Wikipedia

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    Wooden gulet Christopher: 46.00 m (151 ft) Pendennis Shipyard: Ron Holland: 2011: Aluminium ketch Bluenose II: 46.00 m (151 ft) Smith and Rhuland: William James Roué: 1963: Replica of the wooden Grand Banks fishing schooner Bluenose (1922), entirely rebuilt at the Covey Island, Snyder's, Lunenburg shipyards in 2012 Ganesha II: 46.00 m (151 ft)

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