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California Western 45 photo special eastbound at the first crossing of the Noyo River, 2009. The California Western Railroad (reporting mark CWR), AKA Mendocino Railway, popularly called the Skunk Train, is a rail freight and heritage railroad transport railway in Mendocino County, California, United States, running from the railroad's headquarters in the coastal town of Fort Bragg to the ...
A ship graveyard, ship cemetery or breaking yard is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve. Such a practice is now less common due to waste regulations and so some dry docks where ships are broken (to recycle their metal and remove dangerous materials like asbestos ) are also known as ...
The Bristol Channel Cutter, also called the Bristol Channel Cutter 28, is an American sailboat that was designed by Lyle Hess as a "character boat" cruiser and first built in 1976. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The boat is based upon Hess's earlier Renegade design.
The deck is fiberglass with a balsa core, while the hull is fiberglass with an Airtex foam core. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 5 ] The design has a cutter sloop rig, with a boom-mounted, self-tending staysail , a teak bowsprit , a spooned raked stem , a raised transom , a skeg -mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed swept fin keel .
It has a fractional sloop rig, a length overall of 28.33 ft (8.6 m), a waterline length of 21.50 ft (6.6 m), displaces 6,850 lb (3,107 kg) and carries 2,900 lb (1,315 kg) of ballast. The deck and coach house roof were redesigned to incorporate a forward cabin windshield, a feature of many Jouët boat designs.
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The Alerion Express 28 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with a Hoyt self-tacking jib boom optional. The hull has a raked stem , an angled transom , an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller , a lazarette and a fixed fin keel .