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RS K6 Keelboat broaching, caused by wind action. A broach is an abrupt, involuntary change in a vessel's course, towards the wind, resulting from loss of directional control, when the vessel's rudder becomes ineffective.
A Contender dinghy planing on a broad reach. Note the typical way the bow lifts up while the stern skims over the water. Planing (/ ˈ p l eɪ n ɪ ŋ / PLAY-ning) is the mode of operation for a waterborne craft in which its weight is predominantly supported by hydrodynamic lift, rather than hydrostatic lift ().
David Vinckboons: Landscape with skaters (cca. 1615), 17th century boer type iceboats Boer Ice sailing in the Netherlands in 1938.. An iceboat (occasionally spelled ice boat or traditionally called an ice yacht) is a recreational or competition sailing craft supported on metal runners for traveling over ice.
Cobalt has a portfolio of intellectual property in its field, having won a patent infringement lawsuit against Brunswick Corporation, parent company of Sea Ray Boats, over a popular "'retractable swim step', a partially submerged platform off the rear of the boat that allows boat passengers to easily enter and exit the water". [1]
Showboaters is a British reality show that was broadcast on Sky1 from 13 September to 6 November 2011.. Ten amateur performers are in competition to become the main act aboard a luxury cruise liner.
For thousands of years, Saysutshun Island was used by the Coast Salish peoples as a seasonal fishing site.. European explorers, including members of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), initially assumed the island was uninhabited.
The term swiftboating, also swift-boating or swift boating, is a pejorative American neologism used to describe an unfair or untrue political attack. The term is ...
Manatees (/ ˈ m æ n ə t iː z /, family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), and the West ...