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The course of a sailing vessel in relation to the direction of the wind, divided into six points: in irons (pointed directly into the wind), close hauled (sailing as close into the direction of the wind as possible), close reach (between close hauled and beam reach), beam reach (perpendicular to the wind), broad reach (wind behind the vessel at ...
A warship propelled by oars with a sail for use in a favourable wind Galliot Name refers to several types of sailing vessel, usually two-masted Gunboat Various small armed vessels, originally sail and later powered Hydrofoil A ship whose hull is fitted underneath with shaped vanes (foils) which lift the hull out of the water at speed. Ironclad
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
In addition the group had two fishing vessels. The company was founded by Aage Remøy, who also served as chief executive officer, in 1996 as a spinoff from the family fisheries business. The group consisted of two holding companies, Rem Offshore AS and Remøy Fiskeriselskap AS, responsible for the supply and fisheries fleet, respectively.
A ship at sea is said to possess the weather gage if it is in any position upwind of the other vessel. [1] Proximity with the land, tidal and stream effects and wind variability due to geography (hills, cliffs, etc.) may also come into play. An upwind vessel is able to manoeuvre at will toward any downwind point, since the relative wind then ...
Channel was the name of a lightvessel station located in the English Channel between 1979 and August 2021, when it was replaced with a light buoy.It was also one of the 22 coastal weather stations whose conditions were reported in the BBC Shipping Forecast.
Apparent wind (V A) is the air velocity acting upon the leading edge of the most forward sail or as experienced by instrumentation or crew on a moving sailing craft. It is the vector sum of true wind velocity and the apparent wind component resulting from boat velocity (V A = −V B + V T).
The vessel originally operated out of Katwijk, fishing the North Sea. [1] An engine was fitted in the 1930s. [1] The vessel was refitted for cargo carrying in 1957, with hold hatches widened and a new engine fitted. [1] She was renamed Aaltje en Willem, [citation needed] and carried cargo between the Netherlands and several small North Sea ...