Examples include the Moth ( dinghy ), the A Class Catamaran, and the boats used in the America's Cup, Volvo Ocean Race, and Barcelona World Race.

Sailboat racing ranges from single person dinghy racing to large boats with 10 or 20 crew and from small boats costing a few thousand dollars to multi-million dollar America's Cup or Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race campaigns.

This sailing race featured, among other entrants, all the boats that took part in the 2007 America's Cup.

* 12 Meter Boat Race at the Edgartown Yacht Club ( Featuring many winning America's Cup boats )

The most notable match race is the America's Cup which was until recently sailed by boats of the International America's Cup Class, which is a formula class.

The design of America's Cup Class boats is controlled by a complex formula which allows designers a fair bit of room to optimize for different expected conditions.

Many of the boats which competed and won in the America's Cup in years past were built in The Minneford Boat Yard on City Island.

The plans stayed with Kirby until 1970 when One Design and Offshore Yachtsman magazine held a regatta for boats under $ 1000, called " America's Teacup ".

Pleasure boats, cruising America's Great Loop, use the waterway each year in the fall.

After the 1980 America's Cup, people in the Newport, RI area started sailing boats called Mini-12s named for the 12-Meter Yachts used in the America's Cup.

The movie Wind is loosely based on Dennis Conner's experience, from the 1983 America's Cup loss to his America's Cup win in Perth, and on a number of events that occurred on various competitor boats throughout the match races of the 1987 America's Cup.

The US Navy briefly operated the base on the shores of Halifax Harbour, adjacent to RCAF Station Dartmouth, to stage its flying boats used in coastal and anti-submarine patrols along North America's eastern seaboard.

The 12 Metre class boats are probably best known for their use from 1958 to 1987 in the America's Cup.

In 1987, use of the 12 Metre class was ended, switching to International America's Cup Class boats for the 1992 competition.

MHOR is a well-known event in North America's sailing community, usually attracting in excess of 100 boats sailing in 5 different divisions.

Reserved for a wealthy elite of yachtsmen, these boats were used to compete with the best sailing talents in three races of the America's Cup.

As a result the Universal Rule was retained for large boats in the United States and the 1930s America's Cup regattas were all raced in the J-Class.

The competition was a bit unfair because the British challengers had to be constructed in the country of the Challenging Yacht Club ( a criterion still in use today ), and had to sail on their own hull to the venue of the America's Cup ( a criterion no longer in use today ): The design for such an undertaking required the challenging boat to be more seaworthy than the American boats, whose design was purely for speed in closed waters ' regattas.

Fay financed the creation of KZ 1, a large single-hull yacht which complied with the original Deed of Gift but was much larger and hence faster than the 12-metre class boats which had been used for America's Cup competition for many years.

Depending on the application, magnetometers can be deployed in spacecraft, aeroplanes ( fixed wing magnetometers ), helicopters ( stinger and bird ), on the ground ( backpack ), towed at a distance behind quad bikes ( sled or trailer ), lowered into boreholes ( tool, probe or sonde ) and towed behind boats ( tow fish ).

A number of leisure craft are kept here and the Isle is increasingly being used as a stopping off location for pleasure traffic plying the west coast, and as a launching site for trailer based craft such as small angling boats and diving RIB's.

There are also two slipways for launching trailer boats or dinghies, one of which is at the inner end of the quay and is sheltered in all weathers.

CEO, Peter Liegl founded the company in 1996, which today makes all classes of RVs, cargo trailers, utility trailer, pontoon boats, light and medium-duty buses ( primarily shuttle buses, not inner-city transit buses ), portable offices, and structures to use for temporary schools.

Trailer winches are designed to load ( or unload ) boats and other cargo to and from a trailer.

When used for launching and retrieving small boats, the trailer is placed in the water.

* Boat haulers work moving boats ranging in size from bass boats to full-size yachts up to using a specialized low boy trailer that can be set up for each size of boat.

There is a small shallow boat ramp located at Swallow Rock Reserve for launching trailer boats, canoes and kayaks.

He was a serious sailor, respected by other sailors who had seen too many Hollywood actors and their boats.

130 sailors and 3 river patrol boats ).

San Francisco Bay is a mecca for sailors ( boats, as well as windsurfing and kitesurfing ), due to consistent strong westerly / northwesterly thermally-generated winds ( Beaufort force 6 ( 15-25 knots ) is common on summer afternoons ) and protection from large open ocean swells.

Bad weather makes even finishing such races a considerable test of equipment and willpower, and from time to time boats and sailors are lost at sea.

Although initially successful in this venture, " it was not long before African naval forces were alerted to the new dangers, and the Portuguese ships began to meet strong and effective resistance ", with the crews of several of them being killed by African sailors, whose boats were better equipped at traversing the west African coasts and river systems.

Every four years, Brest hosts the international festival of the sea, boats and sailors: it is a meeting of old riggings from around the world.

The species was quickly wiped out by the sailors, seal hunters, and fur traders that followed Bering's route past the islands to Alaska, who hunted it both for food and for skins, which were used to make boats.

One US aircraft was damaged, one 14. 5 mm round hit the destroyer, three North Vietnamese torpedo boats were damaged, and four North Vietnamese sailors were killed and six were wounded ; there were no U. S. casualties.

Despite the Navy ’ s claim that two attacking torpedo boats had been sunk, there was no wreckage, bodies of dead North Vietnamese sailors, or other physical evidence present at the scene of the alleged engagement.

In the 19th Century, Hydra was home to some 125 boats and 10, 000 sailors.

However, his trierarchy was a financial responsibility – that is, Nearchus put up the money for the boats ( Heckel, p. 229 ); and there were plenty of other trierarchs in the Indus fleet who were not natural born sailors.

On that date, approximately 136 British marines and sailors under the command of Richard Coote ( or Coot ) rowed six boats from four British warships anchored in Long Island Sound, six miles up the Connecticut River, past the unmanned fort in Old Saybrook, arriving at the boat launch at the foot of Main Street in Essex close to 4 A. M.

The boats were armed with swivel guns loaded with grapeshot, the officers armed with swords and pistols, the marines with " Brown Bess " muskets, and the sailors with torches and axes ; they responded to the single cannon fired by the town's surprised defenders with a massive volley, neither side incurring any casualties.

Fireships were posted on the wings of the Ottoman formation, and could, if effectively deployed, wreak mayhem on Allied boats concentrated in enclosed waters, especially as Allied sailors had no experience of this kind of warfare.

Preparations for the attack had floundered early, as a canal being dug by Cochrane's sailors collapsed and the dam made to divert the flow of the river into the canal failed, leaving the sailors to drag the boats of Col. Thornton's west bank assault force through deep mud and left the force starting off just before daybreak 12 hours late.

They were daring sailors, and in small canvas boats of their own building voyage to Nightingale and Inaccessible islands.

When she resurfaced all the larger ships had gone, and the submarine rescued the British crewmen, still afloat in small boats together with German sailors.

Hence with multi-masted boats, the sailors would trim the upper sails on the forward and rearwards masts to steer the ship.

* Port de l ' Olivette: Situated in the sheltered cove of the same name, this is a harbour for sailors and their wooden fishing boats who enjoy the old marine, provencal traditions.

Meanwhile, a number of survivors had been plucked from the sea by small boats ; they were sailors who had been blown into the water by the impact of the blast, and who had clung to wreckage for hours.

The identical supplied ( BLU-26 ) boats are raced two at a time in an on the water dogfight which tests the sailors and skippers to the limits of their physical abilities.

The Navy took a larger role in the war, sending manned boats with sailors and marines up rivers and streams, and into the Everglades.

When the convoy arrived in port, after a rough passage in what were little more than open boats, they were met with a great crowd of sailors and townspeople, thankful for their help in stopping the U-boats that were blockading western Europe.