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  2. Clyde Boats - Wikipedia

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    Clyde Boats was a small, privately owned, custom boat company located in Detroit, Michigan. For nearly fifty years it produced custom mahogany motorboats for clients in the Great Lakes area. Clyde Boats were available in three sizes; 12', [ 1 ] 14', and 16'. [ 2 ]

  3. Mayea Boat & Aeroplane Works - Wikipedia

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    Mayea Boat & Aeroplane Works is an American wooden boat builder based in Michigan. The company was founded in 1911 by Louis T. Mayea [ 1 ] and represents the oldest family-run custom mahogany speedboat builder/designer in the United States.

  4. Machine head - Wikipedia

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    A machine head (also referred to as a tuning machine, tuner, or gear head) is a geared apparatus for tuning stringed musical instruments by adjusting string tension. Machine heads are used on mandolins, guitars, double basses and others, and are usually located on the instrument's headstock .

  5. Tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments - Wikipedia

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    Turning the peg or pin tightens or loosens the string. Some tuning pegs and pins are tapered, some threaded. Some tuning pegs are ornamented with shell, metal, or plastic inlays, beads (pips) or rings. Other tuning systems include screw-and-lever tuners, geared tuners, and the konso friction tuning system (using braided leather rings).

  6. Self-steering gear - Wikipedia

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    By contrast the vane gear offers at least the possibility of an improvised repair at sea, and can usually be rebuilt on land using non-specific parts (sometimes plumbing parts) by a local welder or machinist [citation needed]. To minimize the speed loss by the self steering gear it is essential to have the vessel's sails balanced with little ...

  7. Marine steam engine - Wikipedia

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    Early marine propeller engines were geared upward, which is to say the propeller was geared to run at a higher rotational speed than the engine itself ran at. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] As engines became faster and more powerful through the latter part of the 19th century, gearing was almost universally dispensed with, and the propeller ran at the same ...

  8. Air-independent propulsion - Wikipedia

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    Air-independent propulsion (AIP), or air-independent power, is any marine propulsion technology that allows a non-nuclear submarine to operate without access to atmospheric oxygen (by surfacing or using a snorkel). AIP can augment or replace the diesel-electric propulsion system of non-nuclear vessels.

  9. Engine tuning - Wikipedia

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    Engine tuning is the adjustment or modification of the internal combustion engine or Engine Control Unit (ECU) to yield optimal performance and increase the engine's power output, economy, or durability. These goals may be mutually exclusive; an engine may be de-tuned with respect to output power in exchange for better economy or longer engine ...