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• Dinghy — of the schooner Adventuress A dinghy is a type of small boat, often carried or towed for use as a ship s boat by a larger vessel. It is a loanword from either Bengali or Urdu. The term can also refer to small racing yachts or recreational open… …   Wikipedia

• Spritsail — The spritsail is a form of three or four sided, fore aft sail and its rig. Unlike the gaff where the head hangs from a spar along its edge, this rig supports the leech of the sail by means of a spar or spars named a sprit. The forward end of the… …   Wikipedia

• Transit (ship) — Transit was the name given to three sailing vessels designed and built to the order of Captain Richard Hall Gower.All three had fine lines at bow and stern, uniform frames mid ships with concave and convex sweeps and a deep keel. Their length to… …   Wikipedia

• Braille ASCII — (or more formally The North American Braille ASCII Code) is a subset of the ASCII character set which uses 64 of the printable ASCII characters to represent all possible dot combinations in six dot Braille. It was developed around 1969 and, in… …   Wikipedia

• Dogger (boat) — A dogger viewed from before the port beam. Her gaff mainsail is brailed up and her lateen mizzen is set. c. 1675 by Willem van de Velde the Younger The dogger was a form of fishing boat, developed during the seventeenth century, that commonly… …   Wikipedia

• bawley — a small fishing smack used on the coasts of Kent and Essex, generally about 15 20 tons, and no boom to the mainsail which is consequently easily brailed up when working the trawl nets. Bawley s have a wet well to keep fish alive …   Dictionary of ichthyology