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unusual facts about sailboat


Proto-Elamite

The Mesopotamian civilization emerged during the period 3700–2900 BC amid the development of technological innovations such as the plough, sailing boats and copper metal working.


Alberg

Carl Alberg (1900, Göteborg – 1986, Marblehead), ship engineer and sailboat constructor

Albin Vega

A 36 year old Albin Vega sailboat, christened the St. Brendan in honor of the 6th-century Irish explorer monk, was used by Matt Rutherford of Annapolis, Maryland in his successful 314 day, 27,077 mile solo circumnavigation of North and South America which was officially completed on April 18, 2012, when Rutherford crossed the start and finish line -- the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel outside of Norfolk, Virginia .

Boston Whaler

Fisher imagined it as a replacement for the lightweight balsa pine used in small boat construction, and in 1954 he constructed a small sailing dinghy filled with the foam, with a design similar to the Sunfish.

Boundary Waters – Canadian derecho

One sailboat was overturned and two people were thrown into the cold waters of Lake Superior.

Buccaneer Yacht Club

In 2007 it hosted the 87th annual Sir Thomas Lipton Inter-Club Challenge sailboat race, an Olympic style GYA racing event for sailors of Flying Scot dinghys.

Chicago Yacht Club

In addition to the Mackinac race, the Club will host the National Offshore One Design (NOOD) Regatta June 11–13, 2010, the 505 North American Championship June 23–26, 2010, and many other competitive sailboat races.

Clevis fastener

Clevises are used in a wide variety of fasteners used in the farming equipment, sailboat rigging, as well as the automotive, aircraft and construction industries.

Coral reef protection

Lettuce corals and branching corals such as elkhorn and finger coral are extremely fragile, but even massive boulder corals can be crushed or snapped off and turned upside down to die by a sailboat keel.

Du Pappa

Wanting to get away from his parents he steals a sailboat, vaguely envisioning to look up some girl he once knew a bit down the Oslofjord.

Ed Baird

Baird has worked with ESPN, Outdoor Life Network, Versus and Television New Zealand as an expert commentator for shows about sailboat racing.

Francis Mellus

Francis Mellus bought hides for this company along the coast of California, taking the goods by sailboat to San Diego, where they dried them, and when sufficient had been collected to fill a ship, which usually took a couple of years' time, Mellus sent the goods east.

Front Runner

The sailboat was produced in three different places: Gloucester, Virginia, Irvington, Virginia, and Hollywood, Maryland.

J24

J/24, the worlds most produced keelboat and most popular one-design offshore sailboat

Jill Stevens

She placed 3rd in the Cinco De Mayo Sailboat Regatta in Mexico as well as being chosen one of four women for the "Women of Strength" featured in Muscle & Fitness Hers magazine September/October 2007 issue.

Lake Hopatcong Yacht Club

The club's sailing program includes a junior sailing instructional and racing program, as well as one-design racing in several fleets: E-Scow, Star, Thistle, and A-Class.

Lošinj

Agostino Straulino (b. October 10, 1914 in Mali Lošinj; d. December 14, 2004 in Rome) was an Italian sailor and sailboat racer, who won one Olympic gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics (Helsinki) and one silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics (Melbourne) in the Star class, and eight consecutive European championships (1949–56) and two world championships (1952–53) in this class and was world champion in the 5.5m-class.

Luffing

Often this occurs on the point of sail known as close hauled, this is sometimes referred to as pinching or "feathering" and is sometimes done deliberately in order to make a more direct course toward an upwind destination (see: "beating to windward"), or to "de-power" a sail on a windy day to maintain control of the sailboat.

Meyers Manx

Drawing on his experience in sailboat construction, Meyers personally modeled and built his first dune buggy, "Old Red", a shortened VW Beetle with a monocoque, fiberglass shell and Chevrolet pickup truck suspension, in late 1963 to May 1964 in his garage in Newport Beach, California.

Mug Race

The Mug Race is an annual sailboat race held on Florida's St. Johns River.

Pearson Wanderer

The Pearson Wanderer is a sailboat designed by Bill Shaw and manufactured by Pearson Yachts (Grumman Allied Industries) between 1966 and 1971.

Pim Nieuwenhuis

Nieuwenhuis as crew on the Dutch Tornado with Mitch Booth as helmsman took 5th place during the 2008 Olympics, in Qingdao.

Runtastic

The initial idea was born during a project at the FH Hagenberg in Austria (University of Applied Science) for tracking sailboat races.

Shoals Marine Laboratory

The lab also operates various smaller vessels, such as zodiacs, small power boats, and a 19' Cape Dory Typhoon sailboat.

St. Gilgen

Hubert Raudaschl (b. 1942), sailboat manufacturer and former olympic athlete

Stuart Walker

Stuart H. Walker (sailboat racer) (born 1923), American sailboat racer, professor of pediatrics and writer of sports books

The Glass Ballerina

On the sailboat, Sun, Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim), and Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) argue about what to do because Jack Shephard's (Matthew Fox) party has not shown up; Sun goes against her husband's wishes and agrees with Sayid to sail to a new location.


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