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...freeboard: the three inches of the shell above the surface of the water. Shells are notoriously easy to swamp with such little protection from rough water or the wakes of passing motorboats...
...freeboard: the three inches of the shell above the surface of the water. Shells are notoriously easy to swamp with such little protection from rough water or the wakes of passing motorboats...
...freeboard: the three inches of the shell above the surface of the water. Shells are notoriously easy to swamp with such little protection from rough water or the wakes of passing motorboats...
...Cape of Good Hope the next, pass through the tropics, then the Biscay or North Atlantic coast gales. These subject its great length to severe hogging and sagging, with its broad decks constantly subjected to the weight of tremendous quantities of sea water because of the low freeboard of the loaded ship...
...trials at Newport cost the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. $500,000 to construct. Architects for the new America: Sparkman & Stephens, the same firm that designed Intrepid. * The Twelves get their name from a complicated rating formula that takes into consideration length, girth, sail area and freeboard, and after much mathematical hocus-pocus equals 39.37 ft., or twelve meters. * And who now has his own class named after him, the 30-ft. Shields boat, first brought out in 1963 and currently a hot favorite at $8,000 among sailors, with 147 sold...