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A mainsail may also be furled by a similar system, whereby the sail is furled within the mast or around a rotating boom (or around a rotating shaft within a boom). Although staysail roller-furling is effective and very common, in-mast or in-boom mainsail furling involves some compromises, and mainsail slab reefing gives a better sail shape.
Many mast-aft rigs utilize a small mainsail and multiple staysails that can resemble some cutter rigs. A cutter is a single masted vessel, differentiated from a sloop either by the number of staysails, with a sloop having one and a cutter more than one, or by the position of the mast, with a cutter's mast being located between 50% and 70% of the way from the aft to the front of the sailplan ...
All reservoirs in Missouri should be included in this category. This includes all reservoirs that can also be found in the subcategories. The main article for this category is List of dams and reservoirs in Missouri; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in Missouri; See also category Lakes of Missouri
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Missouri. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Gunter rigged Lobster 12.5. Gunter rig is a configuration of sail and spars used in sailing. It is a fore and aft sail set abaft (behind) the mast. The lower half of the luff (front) of the sail is attached to the mast, and the upper half is fastened to a spar which is approximately vertical and reaches above the top of the mast.
That was until the St. Louis Health Department and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources shut it down over air quality in 1994. “I believe we are on a landfill.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Missouri's Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey said on Thursday he was launching an investigation into Google over allegations that it was censoring conservative speech.
Flags are being lowered to half-staff across the U.S. through March 27 to honor the life of Madeleine Albright, the first female secretary of state. Why flags will fly at half-staff, half-mast in ...