Word: skegness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot, Eureka model offshore pleasure cruiser. Eureka has a spoonbill bow with wood strips diverging downward to drive a cushion of spray under the hull. The tunnel-stern (fashioned after the belly of a sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete sea wall (the last for no apparent reason except to prove...
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