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On the heels of back-to-back hits such as “The Count of Monte-Cristo,” ambitious French producer Dimitri Rassam is launching Yapluka, a new European financing and distribution powerhouse with ...
The term ama is a word in the Polynesian and Micronesian languages to describe the outrigger part of a canoe to provide stability. Today, among the various Polynesian countries, the word ama is often used together with the word vaka (Cook Islands) or waka or va'a (Samoa Islands, Tahiti), cognate words in various Polynesian languages to describe a canoe.
A catamaran is a vessel with twin hulls. Commercial catamarans began in 17th century England. Separate attempts at steam-powered catamarans were carried out by the middle of the 20th century. However, success required better materials and more developed hydrodynamic technologies. During the second half of the 20th century catamaran designs ...
The Spirit of Dallas catamaran on White Rock Lake A Formula 16 beachable catamaran Powered catamaran passenger ferry at Salem, Massachusetts, United States. A catamaran (/ ˌ k æ t ə m ə ˈ r æ n /) (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size. The wide distance between a catamaran's hulls imparts stability ...
A small waterplane area twin hull, better known by the acronym SWATH, is a catamaran design that minimizes hull cross section area at the sea's surface. Minimizing the ship's volume near the surface area of the sea , where wave energy is located, minimizes a vessel's response to sea state, even in high seas and at high speeds.
HSC Villum Clausen On the way from the shipyard of Austal in Australia to Rønne in Denmark the ferry had a top speed of 47.7 knots and an average of 43.4 knots, and on February 16 and 17, 2000 it had reached 1,063 sea miles within 24 hours, thereby setting the world record which was then written in the Guinness Book of Records.
The history of this unique catamaran is linked to the Catalan coast, and is documented and recognized in the minutes of the International Sports Association of Sail Patin Owners (Associació Esportiva Internacional de Patrons de Patins de Vela / Asociación Deportiva Internacional de Patín a Vela, ADIPAV) board meeting in 1951, [7] in the ...
Bangka is derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baŋkaʔ, with cognates including Kavalan bangka, Mori bangka, and Sumbawa bangka.It is a doublet of two other protoforms referring to boats: Proto-Austronesian *qabaŋ and Proto-Central-Malayo-Polynesian *waŋka.