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Stays are ropes, wires, or rods on sailing vessels that run fore-and-aft along the centerline from the masts to the hull, deck, bowsprit, or to other...

rigid parts of a corset Stays, or corset, a garment worn to mold and shape the torso; See History of corsets Stays (nautical), heavy ropes, wires, or...

A sailboat's mast is supported by shrouds and stays - nautical equivalents of guy wires....

loads while lifting. A sailboat's mast is supported by shrouds and stays - nautical equivalents of guy wires The Sendeturm Jauerling is a partially guyed...

This glossary of nautical terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water...

This glossary of nautical terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water...

as well. Mayne, Richard (2018-10-24). The Language of Sailing. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-96558-7. Guy-wire Aeronautical wire bracing Stays (nautical)...

(sailing) Sail-plan Rigging Wing Sail twist High-performance sailing Stays (nautical) Sheet (sailing) Batchelor, G.K. (1967), An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics...

wheel bicycles. Bicycle frame Guy (sailing) Aeronautical wire bracing Stays (nautical) "It's in the Bag". Google books. Popular Mechanics. August 1978. p...

In nautical contexts, a cleat is a device for securing a rope. Types of cleat designs include the following: A horn cleat is the traditional design, featuring...

by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Traveller" nautical fitting – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2020)...

rigging is the fixed rigging that supports masts including shrouds and stays. Running rigging is rigging which adjusts the position of the vessel's sails...

instead, resulting in higher ship speed. Glossary of nautical terms (A-L) Glossary of nautical terms (M-Z) Pingel, Bob. "Adding a staysail". SAILING...

backstay, and upper and lower shrouds (side stays). Less common rigging configurations are diamond stays and jumpers. Both of these are used to keep a...

intermediate stages of twilight coincide with predusk. The second phase is nautical twilight, between 6 and 12 degrees below the horizon. The third phase is...

possible for indefinite frozen orbits. These would be useful for long-term stays in LLO. Most lunar low orbits below 100 km (60 mi) are unstable. Gravitational...

navigational stars whose coordinates are tabulated in any of the published nautical or air almanacs can also accomplish this same goal. Celestial navigation...

16. Although her voyage did not meet the distance criterion of 21,600 nautical miles (40,000 km) for a circumnavigation, Watson was nevertheless named...

Secondary School Certificate (HSC). In 1968, he obtained a diploma in nautical science from Mercantile Marine Academy in Chittagong, then known as Pakistan...

 2024 (2024-01-10) Toony digs up supposed cures for the common cold when Bill stays home sick. Featured cartoons : Odor of the Day (1948), Chilly's Ice Folly...