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A strait is a water body connecting two seas or two water basins. While the landform generally constricts the flow, the surface water still flows, for the most part, at the same elevation on both sides and through the strait in both directions.
Tolo Channel – narrow opening to the Tolo Harbour in Hong Kong; Tongass Passage – between Alaska and British Columbia; Torres Strait – between New Guinea and Australia; Tsugaru Strait – between Hokkaidō and Honshū; Turkish Straits – collectively refers to the Turkish straits the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles between Asia and Europe
A type of boat designed specifically to fit the narrow canal locks of the United Kingdom. narrows A narrow part of a navigable waterway. nautical Of or pertaining to sailors, seamanship, or navigation; maritime. nautical chart A map of a sea or ocean area and adjacent coastal regions, intended specifically for navigation at sea.
Strait, a naturally formed, narrow waterway; Channel (geography), a landform consisting of the outline of the path of a narrow body of water; Canal, a man-made channel for water; Aquaporin, a cellular membrane structure that selectively passes water; An experimental tank. Ship model basin, used in naval architecture to study the behaviour of ...
The term "gut" is primarily (though not exclusively) applied to channels of the coastal waters of the Atlantic coast of North America. A similar term of related but not identical meaning, "gat", is applied to some narrow waterways of the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts of Europe. View across Hull Gut in Massachusetts of Peddocks Island from the ...
The key distinguishing feature of a narrowboat is its width, which must be less than 7 feet (2.13 m) wide to navigate British narrow canals. Some old boats are very close to this limit (often built 7 feet 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches or 2.17 metres or slightly wider), and can have trouble using certain narrow locks whose width has been reduced over time because of subsidence.
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A bridge wing is a narrow walkway extending from both sides of a pilothouse to the full width of a ship or slightly beyond, to allow bridge personnel a full view to aid in the maneuvering of the ship. [16] Officers use bridge wings when docking or maneuvering in locks and narrow waterways.