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The two-chine hull (B), with a flat bottom and nearly vertical sides, was the first hard-chine design to achieve widespread use. This design provides far more stability than the single-chine hull, with minimum draft and a large cargo capacity. These characteristics make the two-chine hull popular for punts, barges, and scows.
Chine: the part of a hull at the turn of the bilge. It may be "hard" (i.e. sharply angled) or "soft" (gradually contoured). A chine made of a single timber is known as a chine log. Cleat: a fitting designed to tie off lines. The most common form has a central anchor point and opposing protrusions for taking turns of a line. Also cam and jam cleats.
The term chine originates in boatbuilding, where it applies to a sharp profile change in the hull of a boat. [note 1] In a flying boat hull or floatplane float, the longitudinal line of sharp change in cross-section where the bottom plane meets the sidewall is an example of a chine.
The Graduate is a 12-foot sailing dinghy with a single-chine hull. Designed by Dick Wyche in 1952, the Graduate has a Bermuda rig. Graduate class sailing
Column headings include: "Type" (i.e. Chinese class designation), the types "NATO designation", the ships "Pennant number" (or hull number), the ships name in English and Chinese (Han 中文), ships "Displacement" in tonnes, and the "Fleet" in which it serves (e.g. North Sea Fleet, South Sea Fleet and East Sea Fleet).
While the Type A motor launch had been designed entirely for Fairmile by architect Norman Hart, the Type B design had come from Bill Holt, head of the Admiralty's DNC Boat Section. The hard-chine hull of the Type A had exhibited seakeeping and handling limitations, but Holt's round-bilged design for the Type B was found to be a far more ...
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The Sun Odyssey 349 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass with a hard chine hull. The deck is injection molded with an end-grain balsa core. It has a 9/10 fractional sloop rig with a deck-stepped mast, Technique Voile sails, double aft-swept spreaders, aluminum spars and no backstay.