By taking up on the bow cable the stern anchor can be set.

Fibreglass provides structural strength, especially when long woven strands are laid, sometimes from bow to stern, and then soaked in epoxy or polyester resin to form the hull of the boat.

Orders were issued for each ship to attach strong cables to the bow and stern of their neighbours, which would effectively turn the line into a long battery forming a theoretically impregnable barrier.

Furthermore, not all of his captains had followed his orders to attach cables to their neighbour's bow and stern, which would have prevented such a manoeuvre.

Traditional kayaks encompass three types: Baidarkas, from the Alaskan & Aleutian seas, the oldest design, whose rounded shape and numerous chines give them an almost Blimp-like appearance ; West Greenland kayaks, with fewer chines and a more angular shape, with gunwales rising to a point at the bow and stern ; and East Greenland kayaks that appear similar to the West Greenland style, but often fit more snugly to the paddler and possess a steeper angle between gunwale and stem, which lends maneuvrability.

There were now two bow and two stern torpedo tubes, with six torpedoes carried.

Longships were also double-ended, the symmetrical bow and stern allowing the ship to reverse direction quickly without having to turn around ; this trait proved particularly useful in northern latitudes where icebergs and sea ice posed hazards to navigation.

Unlike later boats, it had a low bow and stern.

The bow and stern had slight elevation.

Compared to later longships the oak planks are wide-about 250mm including laps, with less taper at bow and stern.

The hull had a distinctive leaf shape with the bow sections much narrower than the stern quarters.

The reconstruction suggests the stern was much lower than the bow.

At midlength, where the planks are straight, the rivets are about 170 mm apart but were closer together as the planks sweep up to the curved bow and stern.

At the bow and the stern builders were able to create hollow sections, or compound bends, at the waterline making the entry point very fine.

In less sophisticated ships short and nearly straight planks were used at the bow and stern.

A typical size keel of a longer ship was 100 mm x 300 mm amidships, tapering in width at the bow and stern.

The Lancha Poveira, a boat from Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal is one of the last remnants from the longship, keeping all the longboat features but without a long stern and bow, and with a Mediterranean sail.

While rowing, the athlete sits in the boat facing backwards ( towards the stern ), and uses the oars which are held in place by the oarlocks to propel the boat forward ( towards the bow ).

In all boats, with the exception of single sculls, each rower is numbered in sequential order, low numbers at the bow, up to the highest at the stern.

The person seated on the first seat is called the bowman, or just ' bow ', whilst the rower closest to the stern is called the ' strokeman ' or just ' stroke '.

There are some exceptions to this – some UK coastal rowers, and in France, Spain, and Italy rowers number from stern to bow.

The technique of using a slide on a string has been traced to one-stringed African instruments similar to a " Diddley bow ".

The viola's less responsive strings and the heavier bow warrant a somewhat different bowing technique, and a violist has to lean more intensely on the strings.

This facilitates a traditional playing technique where the performer uses one or two fingers of the bow hand to press the hair away from the bow stick.

Violin family string instrument players are occasionally instructed to strike the string with the side of the bow, a technique called col legno.

Johnson claimed to have started " slapping " the strings of his bass ( a more vigorous technique than the classical pizzicato ) after he accidentally broke his bow on the road with his band in northern Louisiana in the early 1910s.

The composite technique of bow manufacture, by gluing together horn, wood, and animal sinew, was also imported from China.

Because of the unique shooting technique of kyudo, protection on the left ( bow ) arm is not generally required.

Resulting from the technique to release the shot, the bow will ( for a practiced archer ) spin in the hand so that the string stops in front of the archer's outer forearm.

This action of " yugaeri " is a combination of technique and the natural working of the bow.

The wood of the bow can also be drawn across the string — a technique called col legno tratto (" drawn with the wood ").

This often required the more unusual technique of launching the vessels side-on into the river due to lack of space for a more conventional stern first or bow first launch.

A reflex bow is almost impossible to string unless one knows the technique and is easiest to string from a sitting position.

This technique is used to avoid submerging the bow of the kayak by ensuring it lands flat when it hits the base of the waterfall.

There is a legend that, when Giuseppe Tartini heard Veracini playing the violin in 1712, he was so impressed by his bowing technique, and so dissatisfied with his own skill, that he retreated the next day to Ancona " in order to study the use of the bow in more tranquility, and with more convenience than at Venice, as he had a place assigned him in the opera orchestra of that city ".

* Arco, a directive in music for string instruments to indicate to the performer that the passage should be played with the bow using normal bowing technique ( following a passage played pizzicato, for example ).

A Scottish fiddler named Neil Gow is usually credited with developing ( during the 1740s ) the short bow sawstroke technique that defined Appalachian fiddling.

* Steve Parry of Hwyl Nofio uses a prepared guitar technique and developed a bowed device based on the violin, utilizing paper clips, nails, a razor, pliers, bow, automata.

Another less common technique is bowfishing using a regular bow or a crossbow.

Two brass strings are tuned a fifth apart and the horse hair bow is tied loosely ( unlike modern Western stringed instruments ) with the proper tension controlled by the players bow hand, contributing to the difficult technique.

Stephen Scott ( b. Corvallis, Oregon, 1944 ) is an American composer best known for his development of the bowed piano ( borrowed from C. Curtis-Smith, who invented the technique in 1972 ), which involves a grand piano being played by an ensemble of ten musicians who utilize lengths of horsehair, nylon filament, and other utensils to bow the strings of the piano, creating an orchestra-like sound.

This was built using a new technique: the frames, each weighing 1250 t, were lowered by steel cables at a rate of per hour ; the remaining gap between the bow frames upon completion of the lowering process was subsequently closed.