Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Of the over 10,500 miles (16,900 km) in the New York State snowmobile trail system, about 8,000 miles (13,000 km) are corridor trails. [2] Corridor trails are high-volume primary routes that provide access to high-use areas and large concentrations of snowmobiles. [4]
Snowmobile watercross consists of crossing water while riding a snowmobile, which is possible because snowmobiles have wide tracks for traction and flotation in the snow. If one hits the water at an adequate speed (5 mph per 150 lb or 12 km/h per 100 kg of weight) and keeps the sled's throttle open, the track keeps the snowmobile on the surface ...
A snowmobile tour at Yellowstone National Park First person view of a snowmobile driven through Yellowstone National Park.. A snowmobile, also known as a snowmachine (chiefly Alaskan), motor sled (chiefly Canadian), motor sledge, skimobile, or snow scooter, is a motorized vehicle designed for winter travel and recreation on snow.
Zillow Group, Inc., or simply Zillow, is an American tech real-estate marketplace company that was founded in 2006 [4] by co-executive chairmen Rich Barton [5] and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Microsoft spin-off Expedia; Spencer Rascoff, a co-founder of Hotwire.com; David Beitel, Zillow's current chief technology officer; and Kristin Acker, Zillow's current ...
The Skipper 20 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim and simulated lapstrake construction. It has a fractional sloop rig, canoe hull with a raked stem, a rounded transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel.
The S. S. Minnow II was a successor boat purchased by the Skipper from insurance money for the first in the 1978 made-for-TV movie Rescue from Gilligan's Island. At the end of that movie, the cast and boat are wrecked on the same island, as shown by Gilligan 's discovery of a plank with " Minnow I" on it.
Beechcraft Skipper. The Skipper had the misfortune of being introduced at the beginning of a severe downturn in general aviation aircraft production in the United States. During its first year 1979, 47 were built, 140 in 1980, and 125 in 1981. [3] Production stopped in 1983. [6] A total of 312 aircraft were built.
Alan Hale Jr. (born Alan Hale MacKahan; March 8, 1921 – January 2, 1990) was an American actor and restaurateur. [1] He was the son of actor Alan Hale Sr. His television career spanned four decades, but he was best known for his secondary lead role as Captain Jonas Grumby, better known as The Skipper, on the 1960s CBS comedy series Gilligan's Island (1964–1967), [1] a role he reprised in ...