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2. Bimini top - Wikipedia

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   The top provides rain protection only if the boat is stationary and there is no wind. It can also be personalized to fit different types of boats and can come in different colours. [ 1 ] Bimini tops may be made of materials such as stainless steel, polyester, acrylic, or acrylic coated with vinyl.

3. Marine canvas - Wikipedia

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   The term "marine canvas" is also used more narrowly to refer specially to boat cover products. When referring to materials "marine canvas" is a catch–all phrase that covers hundreds of materials, for instance: acrylics, PVC coated polyester, silicone treated substrates and many coated meshes suitable for outdoor use.

4. Inflatable rescue boat - Wikipedia

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   The Operator sits on the lower half of the port side pontoon where they operate the outboard motor to control the boat. They have a single foot strap to help them stay in the boat. Their left hand can hold on to a strap on the port side pontoon and their right hand operates the outboard motor by means of a tiller arm and throttle.

5. Boat building - Wikipedia

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   Boat building is the design and construction of boats (instead of the larger ships) — and their on-board systems. This includes at minimum the construction of a hull , with any necessary propulsion, mechanical, navigation, safety and other service systems as the craft requires.

6. Sponson - Wikipedia

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   In the mid-1990s, advances in sponson design made sponsons a tool for better handling at high speeds, and they began being added to racing boats. [ 2 ] There are essentially three types of sponsons for watercraft available on the market today – the basic block type, the hooked or winged type, and the paddle or rudder type.

7. Seaplane - Wikipedia

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   In order to counteract this effect, Curtiss fitted fins to the sides of the bow to add hydrodynamic lift, but soon replaced these with sponsons, a type of underwater pontoon mounted in pairs on either side of a hull. These sponsons (or their engineering equivalents) and the flared, notched hull would remain a prominent feature of flying-boat ...