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2. Spiling (boat building) - Wikipedia

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   For environmental engineering, see Spiling. Spiling is a technique used in building wooden boats in which a smaller component is used as a pattern against which the outline of a larger component can be drawn. This is often used for creating planks on traditionally built boats that have complex shapes. [1][2] Spiling step 1 : transferring the ...

3. Boat building - Wikipedia

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   A subdivision of the sheet plywood boat building method is known as the stitch-and-glue method, [8] where pre-shaped panels of plywood are drawn together then edge glued and reinforced with fibreglass without the use of a frame. [9] Metal or plastic ties, nylon fishing line or copper wires pull curved flat panels into three-dimensional curved ...

4. The 6 Best Cutting Boards, Expert Tested and Approved - AOL

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   Made from nonporous and BPA-free polypropylene plastic, the surface of this cutting board is gentle on knives but tough enough to resist wear, though we did note a bit of sticking at times during ...

5. Dutchman (repair) - Wikipedia

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   A rail repair dutchman is typically a 4–6-inch (100–150 mm) long piece of rail that is cut in advance for the purpose and carried by a section crew. If the gang finds a rail with a chipped or broken end, they remove the connector plates (fishplates), cut out the damaged section, replace it with the dutchman, and bolt the connectors back in ...

6. Sail components - Wikipedia

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   Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may be classified in a variety of ways, including by its orientation to the vessel (e.g. fore-and-aft) and its shape, (e.g. (a)symmetrical, triangular, quadrilateral, etc.).

7. Strake - Wikipedia

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   Strake. A clinker-built Viking longship, whose overlapping planks constitute "strakes". On a vessel's hull, a strake is a longitudinal course of planking or plating which runs from the boat's stempost (at the bows) to the sternpost or transom (at the rear). The garboard strakes are the two immediately adjacent to the keel on each side.