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  2. Roller furling - Wikipedia

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    A simple home-built jib furler, showing the furling line ready to furl the jib, and (inset) showing the furled jib This staysail schooner's large genoa has been roller-furled away, while its staysails are hanked on. Roller furling is a method of furling (i.e. reefing) a yacht's staysail by rolling the sail around a stay.

  3. Joji Ilagan International Schools - Wikipedia

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    Joji Ilagan Career Center Foundation, Inc. (doing business under the name Joji Ilagan International Schools, and the acronym JIB) is a conglomerate of schools under the JIB Group of Companies, based in Davao City, Philippines. It was founded by its chairwoman, Joji Ilagan Bian, after whom the school is named. [1]

  4. Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines

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    Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Philippines, also known as HHIC Phil, was a Philippines-based shipbuilding company established in February 2006 by Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction of South Korea. In the same month, its first shipbuilding contract was signed for four container ships.

  5. Port of Iloilo - Wikipedia

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    It serves the city, province of Iloilo, and the entire island of Panay in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It is located in the districts of Iloilo City Proper and Lapuz , on the southeastern coast of Panay, in Iloilo Strait , and one of the country’s safest and most natural harbors. [ 3 ]

  6. Genoa (sail) - Wikipedia

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    A jib, left, compared to a roughly 110% genoa, right. The foretriangle is outlined in red. The term jib is the generic term for any of an assortment of headsails.The term genoa (or genny) refers to a type of jib that is larger than 100% of the foretriangle, which is the triangular area formed by the point at which the stay intersects the mast, and deck or bowsprit, and the line where the mast ...

  7. Jib (crane) - Wikipedia

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    This specific example uses a level luffing mechanism to maintain the load at approximately the same vertical height as the jib moves through its range of travel. A jib or jib arm is the horizontal or near-horizontal beam used in many types of crane to support the load clear of the main support. [1] [2] An archaic spelling is gib. [3]

  8. Jig borer - Wikipedia

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    Franklin D. Jones, in his textbook Machine Shop Training Course (5th ed), [4] noted: "In many cases, a jig borer is a 'jig eliminator.' In other words, such a machine may be used instead of a jig either when the quantity of work is not large enough to warrant making a jig or when there is insufficient time for jig making."

  9. Subic Special Economic and Freeport Zone - Wikipedia

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    The economic zone was the location of U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay, until the latter's decommissioning in 1992. The SBFZ is operated and managed by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA), a sub-agency under the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA).