Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

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.

The southern half, however, on account of its underbracing, was considered by boat owners a menace to navigation.

In the first trial an inert substance was disseminated from a boat travelling some ten miles off shore under appropriately selected meteorological conditions.

The issue was settled on shore, Greene winning and Wilson remaining ashore, determined to catch the next fishing boat back to England.

Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.

There was nothing quite like being alone on a boat on the ocean.

I asked an old guy running a fishing station if the boat was Moore's.

The campaign's objective was to capture Richmond by moving the Army of the Potomac by boat to the peninsula and then overland to the Confederate capital.

It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82-ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed.

The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).

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.

Nero then ordered captains of a different boat to ram this boat while Agrippina was aboard.

The deposed Emperor attempted to escape in a boat with his wife Agnes and his mistress, but was captured ( note that by some, Andronikos not only survived, but also managed to escape to the then self-proclaimed Kingdom of Cyprus ).

One well-known story ( quoted in Berry, page 261 ) was that he saw the change of direction of a wind vane on a boat on the Thames, caused not by an alteration of the wind itself, but by a change of course of the boat relative to the wind direction.

The baidara ( large skin boat ) was a large open walrus skin-covered boat used by Aleut families to travel from island to island, as well as, transport goods for trade and warriors to battle.

The baidarka ( small skin boat ) was a small boat covered in sea lion skin that was used for hunting because of its sturdiness and maneuverability.

A boat is a watercraft of any size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water.

A go-fast boat, is a small, fast boat designed with a long narrow platform and a planing hull to enable it to reach high speeds.

Tracks are typically designed for spectators, and racing is fast and loud, with boat motors usually powered by V8s developing well over 500 hp.

A Kayak is a small, relatively narrow, human-powered boat primarily designed to be manually propelled by means of a double blade paddle.

The longship is characterized as a graceful, long, narrow, light, wooden boat with a shallow-draft hull designed for speed.

Parasailing, also known as parascending, or " parakiting " is a recreational kiting activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle ( usually a boat ) while attached to a specially designed canopy wing that reminds one of a parachute, known as a parasail wing.

The San Francisco Bay Area Water Trail is a planned system of designated trailheads designed to improve non-motorized small boat access to the bay.

A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval vessel designed to carry torpedoes into battle.

The first boat designed to fire the self-propelled Whitehead torpedo was HMS Lightning, completed in 1877.

The classes designed in the mid-1930s, such as the Torpedo boat type 35, had few guns, relying almost entirely upon their torpedoes.

This speed could also depend on the year, make, and model of the boat because some boats, which are not designed for wakeboarding, create a different size wake which the rider may not feel comfortable with.

* Ice boating – a means of travel in a specialized boat similar in appearance to a sailboat but fitted with skis or runners ( skates ) and designed to run over ice instead of ( liquid ) water.

Built from fibre reinforced composite ( FRC ) the boat is lightweight yet very strong and is designed to right itself in the event of a capsize.

However some flies, such as the trolling tandem streamer fly, are designed for trolling behind a moving boat.

This stabilizing ballast can, in boats designed for racing, be as much as 50 % of the weight of the boat, but is generally around 30 %.

* A well designed ballasted boat can recover from a capsize, even from turning over completely.

Even more recent is the concept of canting keels, designed to move the weight at the bottom of a sailboat to the upwind side, allowing the boat to carry more sails.

) To help herd the logs to the mill, in 1960 the Alaskan Lumber and Pulp Mill had a specially designed boat that was constructed of 1 1 / 2 inch steel.

While some assume that this boat followed the Banks dory shape, the Grand Banks cod fisheries for which the Banks dory was designed didn't start operating until the 1830s.

They were " designed specifically as a ships boat but it became so well known and so common a type that it not only was used alongshore but influenced the design of some local fishing boats ".

Wagonways were usually designed to carry the fully loaded wagons downhill to a canal or boat dock and then return the empty wagons back to the mine.

Later Ericsson designed other naval vessels and weapons, including a type of torpedo and a Destroyer, a torpedo boat that could fire a cannon from an underwater port.

700 tonne vessels, designed to make maximum use of the locks, produce considerable wash, and are not as manoeuvrable as a narrow boat.