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Gennaker
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
A large, lightweight sail used for sailing a fore-and-aft rig down or across the wind, intermediate between a genoa and a spinnaker.
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Lightweight, английский
- Легкий; малого веса
- Человек, ниже среднего веса; животное или вещь легче стандартного веса несерьезный, поверхностный человек
Intermediate, английский
- Between two others.
- Промежуточный
- Промежуточное звено
- Chemical term for an igneous rock containing 54 to 62% silica and usually
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Galleon, английский
- A large, multi-decked sailing ship used primarily by european states from the 16th to 18th centuries.
- A large armed merchantman with two or three decks, square-rigged on fore and mainmasts, lateen- sailed on the mizzen, plus a large square-sail on the bowsprit. spanish galleons were heavily armed with (mostly) close-range anti-personnel weapons; english ones carried fewer but longer-range cannon.
Harness cask, английский
- A large usually round tub lashed to a vessel`s deck and containing dried and salted provisions for daily use.
- A tapered wooden cask with two compartments, each filled with fresh water, formerly used to extract the brine from corned meat. after a few days soaking in the first compartment, the meat was moved to the second to complete the process with fresher water. the proper name is steep tub, but seamen decided the meat was so tough and leathery that it must have came from old cab horses who had been wearing harness when they were pickled.
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