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  2. Crab claw sail - Wikipedia

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    Trapezial boom lug ( Vietnam) The crab claw sail is a fore-and-aft triangular sail with spars along upper and lower edges. The crab claw sail was first developed by the Austronesian peoples by at least 2000 BCE. It is used in many traditional Austronesian cultures in Island Southeast Asia, Micronesia, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar.

  3. Running rigging - Wikipedia

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    Downhaul. Jib halyard. Running rigging is the rigging of a sailing vessel that is used for raising, lowering, shaping and controlling the sails on a sailing vessel—as opposed to the standing rigging, which supports the mast and bowsprit. Running rigging varies between vessels that are rigged fore and aft and those that are square-rigged.

  4. Kapenta - Wikipedia

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    Kapenta rig. This fish is caught at night using kapenta rigs; these rigs use LED lights or kerosene lamps to attract the fish to the rig. A dip net measuring roughly six metres in diameter and around 8 to 10 metres in length is then used to bring the fish up from anything from 40 metres (130 ft). Sustainability

  5. Standing rigging - Wikipedia

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    On modern yachts, standing rigging is often stainless steel wire, Nitronic-50 stainless steel rod or synthetic fiber. Semi-rigid stainless steel wire is by far the most common as it combines extreme strength, relative ease of assembling and rigging with reliability. Unlike rigid stainless steel rod, it is comparatively easy to recognize wear ...

  6. Fore-and-aft rig - Wikipedia

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    Fore-and-aft rigs include: Rigs with one mast: the proa, the catboat, the sloop, the cutter. Rigs with two masts: the ketch, the yawl. Rigs with two or more masts: the schooner. Barques and barquentines are partially square rigged and partially fore-and-aft rigged. A rig which combines both on a foremast is known as a hermaphroditic rig.

  7. Rotary table (drilling rig) - Wikipedia

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    Rotary table (drilling rig) In this simple diagram of a drilling rig, #20 (in blue) is the rotary table. The kelly drive (#19) is inserted through the center of the rotary table and kelly bushings, and has free vertical (up & down) movement to allow downward force to be applied to the drill string, while the rotary table rotates it.

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