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  2. Careening - Wikipedia

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    An Old Whaler Hove Down For Repairs, Near New Bedford, a wood engraving drawn by F. S. Cozzens and published in Harper's Weekly, December 1882. Careening (also known as "heaving down") is a method of gaining access to the hull of a sailing vessel without the use of a dry dock.

  3. 12 Uses For Windex Beyond Cleaning Your Windows - AOL

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    It’s been keeping windows sparkling clean since 1936. Windex has a reputation for keeping windows clean, but its cleaning formula has plenty of other uses around the house and garage .

  4. Boat building tools - Wikipedia

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    Common tools are clamps (cramps), surform rasps, drills, rotary sanding backing pads, sanding pads, counter sinking drills, right angle set squares, manual screw drivers, heavy craft knives, tape, flat and round files for metal and wood, and chisels. Power tools include circular saws, jigsaws, rotary oscillating sanders, cordless drills, and ...

  5. Boat building - Wikipedia

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    Many sailing spars are frequently made of aluminium after 1960. It is the lightest material for building large boats (being 15–20% lighter than polyester and 30% lighter than steel). Aluminium is relatively cheap in comparison with wood or steel in most countries. In addition it is relatively easy to cut, bend and weld.

  6. Window cleaner - Wikipedia

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    Window cleaners in Dresden Cleaning the Fernsehturm Berlin. Window cleaning, or window washing, is the exterior cleaning of architectural glass used for structural, lighting, or decorative purposes. It can be done manually, using a variety of tools for cleaning and access. Technology is also employed and increasingly, automation.

  7. Clear view screen - Wikipedia

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    Other common names for it include "clear sight", "spin window", "Kent Screen" and "rotating windshield wiper". Clear view screens were patented in 1917 by Samuel Augustine de Normanville and Leslie Harcourt Kent as a stand-alone pillar-mounted screen, [ 1 ] with later patents for telescope and optics covers, followed by the more familiar ships ...

  8. Lofting - Wikipedia

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    A 1:1 scale construction drawing of a boat and its parts Lines plan A scaled-down version of a full-sized drawing often including the body, plan, profile, and section views Body Plan A view of the boat from both dead ahead and dead astern split in half Plan view A view looking down on the boat from above Profile view A view of the boat from the ...

  9. Ships husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Underwater hull cleaning to remove fouling organisms which increase drag, and therefore reduce top speed and increase fuel consumption. Such cleaning may be of the entire hull or parts thereof, particularly propellers, shafts and thrusters. The underwater hull may be inspected prior to cleaning, and the amount of cleaning done may depend on the ...