Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ernest Hemingway owned a 38-foot (12 m) fishing boat named Pilar. It was acquired in April 1934 from Wheeler Shipbuilding in Brooklyn, New York, for $7,495. [1] ". Pilar" was a nickname for Hemingway's second wife, Pauline, and also the name of the woman leader of the partisan band in his 1940 novel The Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Maneuvering thruster. Manoeuvering thrusters ( bow thrusters and stern thrusters) are transversal propulsion devices built into or mounted to either the bow or stern (front or back, respectively) of a ship or boat to make it more manoeuvrable. Bow thrusters make docking easier, since they allow the captain to turn the vessel to port or ...
A breakwater structure is designed to absorb the energy of the waves that hit it, either by using mass (e.g. with caissons), or by using a revetment slope (e.g. with rock or concrete armour units). In coastal engineering, a revetment is a land-backed structure whilst a breakwater is a sea-backed structure (i.e. water on both sides).
Several camp grounds and boat docks/ramps offer direct access to the river. Also, small neighborhoods have been built around the Little Red River. A 12.38-kilogram (27.3 lb) hybrid striped bass was caught in Greers Ferry Lake on May 24, 1997 by angler Jerald Shaum, setting an International Game Fish Association world record. See also