These engines can be removed from a boat with relative ease, wherein lies their greatest advantage.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

Return through New England, stopping for a visit to Lake Champlain where you can take a boat ride and go to Ethan Allen Park.

You'll find, once your technique is perfected, that you can cook on a boat with a simple Bernz-O-Matic.

Man in a boat, there's a lot of places he can put in at and a lot of reasons he can be away for a bit.

The Arcadia is much smaller than its contemporary competitors and is powered by a standard 12-volt power supply so it can be used in a boat or a vehicle.

People can use bus or ferry boat to go Istanbul.

A small plane making a water landing or a boat having engine trouble can be carried away from its reported position by the current.

Some evidence for this last possibility may be seen in film recordings of the crash-as the nose of the boat climbs and the jet exhaust points at the water surface no disturbance or spray can be seen at all.

The helicopters are equipped with anti-materiel rifles which can be used to disable the engines of the go-fast boat.

Hydrofoils can be artificial, such as the rudder or keel on a boat, the diving planes on a submarine, a surfboard fin, or occur naturally, as with fish fins, the flippers of aquatic mammals, the wings of swimming seabirds, or other creatures like the sand dollar.

A boat shuttle can carry hikers back to their starting port.

Landings at Jan Mayen can be done by boat.

Others were sceptical, saying that the " hump " cannot be ruled out as being a boat, and claimed that when the contrast is increased a man can be seen in a boat.

By the time this occurs, the boat has passed and the unusual waves are all that can be seen.

The first long ships can trace their origin back to between 500 and 300BC, when the Danish Hjortspring boat was built.

If the boat is powerful enough, two or three people can parasail behind it at the same time.

This can even result in a rower being launched out of the boat, often called an “ ejector crab ”.

Although the oar can be conveniently thought of as a lever with a " fixed " pivot point in the water, the blade moves sideways and sternwards through the water, so that the magnitude of the propulsion force developed is the result of a complex interaction between unsteady fluid mechanics ( the water flow around the blade ) and solid mechanics and dynamics ( the handle force applied to the oar, the oar's inertia and bending characteristic, the acceleration of the boat and so on ).

On straighter courses, the strokesman may steer, since he can point the stern of the boat at some landmark at the start of the course.

Rowing events use a systematic nomenclature for the naming of events, so that age, gender, ability and size of boat can all be expressed in a few numbers and letters.

Thus, the physical portion of the boat that is below water can be regarded as functioning as a " second sail.

This force can be considered as split into a small force acting in the direction of travel, as well as a large sideways force that heels ( tips ) the boat.

This year, Americans will discover previously unheard of refinements in trailers that will be exhibited in about one hundred of our nation's national, regional and local boat shows.

There was a time when, if a man wanted to purchase a boat, it was necessary for him to be able to produce a sizeable amount of cash before he could touch the tiller or wheel.

Outboard motors, insurance, and boat repairs may also be financed in the same way as boats.

The main requirement is to be sure the boat is numbered according to the regulations of the state in which the boat will be principally used.

Care should be taken that other vessels will not swing down on the boat due to the limited swing range.

For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream.

Though aware of the plot, Agrippina embarked on this boat and was nearly crushed by a collapsing lead ceiling only to be saved by the side of a sofa breaking the ceiling's fall.

Years later, a similar boat bridge would be constructed by Xerxes I on the Dardanelles ( Hellespont ) strait, during his invasion of Greece.

In naval terms, a boat is a vessel small enough to be carried aboard another vessel ( a ship ).

Though much more expensive than steel, there are now aluminium alloys available that will not corrode in salt water, and an aluminium boat built to similar load carrying standards could be built lighter than steel.

The material of the boat hull may be denser than water, but if this is the case then it forms only the outer layer.

Excavated sites include Saliagos and Kephala ( on Keos ) with signs of copper-working, Each of the small Cycladic islands could support no more than a few thousand people, though Late Cycladic boat models show that fifty oarsmen could be assembled from the scattered communities ( Rutter ), and when the highly organized palace-culture of Crete arose, the islands faded into insignificance, with the exception of Delos, which retained its archaic reputation as a sanctuary throughout antiquity and until the emergence of Christianity.

Ultimately the term torpedo boat came to be attached to a quite different vessel-the very fast hydroplaning motor driven MTB.

These were entrusted to a native boat builder, Haj Ahmed Yusuf, who slowly and methodically worked out how the pieces fit together.

Between 1899 and 1901, British boat designer John Thornycroft worked on a series of models with a stepped hull and single bow foil.

By 1930, 25 % of all employees in the boat building industry in Canada worked in the Peterborough area.

The plan supposedly worked in the sense that the Trinity boat did sink, but in the process the sword also hit and killed Second Trinity's cox, which of course wasn't intended.

He worked aboard a cattle boat in 1892 before emigrating to Canada in 1896.

The owner of the boat, Beecher Moore, of Thames Sailing Club had worked on developing the technique, in discussion with Uffa Fox.

Smuggled to Hong Kong aboard a small boat at the age of 12, Lai worked as a child-laborer in a garment factory for a wage of $ 8 per month.

At a meeting of the canal company's directors on the 5 June 1800 Dundas " produced a model of a boat by Captain Schank to be worked by a steam engine by Mr Symington ", and it was agreed this should be immediately put in hand.

She later worked on the first hospital boat.

During the early 1970s Southern Region Class 03s worked Channel Island boat trains through the streets to the harbour along the Weymouth Quay tramway.

He worked on To Have and Have Not and wrote a few articles, but mostly he fished aboard his boat Pilar, trolling the deep blue offshore waters for marlin, tuna and swordfish.

Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Lloyd was educated at Homebush Boys High School and worked in a variety of occupations, including milkman, ferry and cruise boat crew member, manager of a marina and service station proprietor before entering politics.

Before Philbrick began writing full-time he worked as a longshoreman and boat builder.

The Japanese community was in part indentured divers and boat hands who returned to Japan after a period of service and some longer term residents who were active in boat building and in the ownership of luggers for hire-which was illegal but bypassed by leases through third parties back to other Japanese, a practice called " dummying " Additionally, many south Pacific Islanders were worked in the industry, many of whose ancestors were originally imported against their will ( see Blackbirding ).

Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Cummings relocated to New Orleans, where he designed and painted Mardi Gras floats, worked as a river boat deck hand and sang and played drums in the regionally successful rock band, " FUSION ".

The Cuban folk singer Silvio Rodríguez composed a song called Playa Girón, dedicated to the fishermen in a boat with that name in which he worked from 1969 to 1970.

Pendleton, a prominent local businessman who worked in real estate and owned a local ferry boat company.

Upon returning to the United States, he worked with the torpedo boat training command.

The San Diego cast worked in San Diego Bay as crew members for Next Level Sailing on a boat named Stars & Stripes, which carried visitors daily.

After that he worked two years at Skandiaverken in Lysekil working with two stroke boat engines.

At a meeting of company directors on June 5, 1800, Dundas brought up the idea of having a Captain Schank boat worked by a steam engine provided by Symington.

In 1905, Jackson worked his way to Europe on a cattle boat, returning by the same means and travelling on to Chicago.