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37 relations: America's Cup, Araldite, Australian National Maritime Museum, Beam (nautical), Bellcrank, Catamaran, Centreboard, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Fiberglass, Flange, Flap (aeronautics), Helmsman, Hull (watercraft), International C-class catamaran, International Catamaran Challenge Trophy, Jock Sturrock, Leading edge, Lock Crowther, Mast (sailing), Melbourne, Moorabbin Airport, Ochroma, Peter Derham, Plywood, Point of sail, Polyethylene terephthalate, Port Phillip, Rudder, Sail, Sheet (sailing), Sorrento, Victoria, Spar (sailing), Spruce, Tacking (sailing), Trailing edge, Windward and leeward, Wingsail.
America's Cup
The America's Cup, affectionately known as the "Auld Mug", is a trophy awarded to the winner of the America's Cup match races between two sailing yachts.
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Araldite
Araldite is a registered trademark of Huntsman Advanced Materials (previously part of Ciba-Geigy) referring to their range of engineering and structural epoxy, acrylic, and polyurethane adhesives.
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Australian National Maritime Museum
The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) is a federally operated maritime museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney.
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Beam (nautical)
The beam of a ship is its width at the widest point as measured at the ship's nominal waterline.
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Bellcrank
A bellcrank is a type of crank that changes motion through an angle.
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Catamaran
A catamaran (informally, a "cat") is a multi-hulled watercraft featuring two parallel hulls of equal size.
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Centreboard
A centreboard or centerboard (US) is a retractable keel which pivots out of a slot in the hull of a sailboat, known as a centreboard trunk (UK) or centerboard case (US).
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Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) was an Australian aircraft manufacturer.
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Fiberglass
Fiberglass (US) or fibreglass (UK) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.
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Flange
A flange is an external or internal ridge, or rim (lip), for strength, as the flange of an iron beam such as an I-beam or a T-beam; or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc., or on the lens mount of a camera; or for a flange of a rail car or tram wheel.
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Flap (aeronautics)
Flaps are a type of high-lift device used to increase the lift of an aircraft wing at a given airspeed.
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Helmsman
A helmsman or helm is a person who steers a ship, sailboat, submarine, other type of maritime vessel, or spacecraft.
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Hull (watercraft)
The hull is the watertight body of a ship or boat.
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International C-class catamaran
The C-Class Catamaran is a high-performance developmental class sailing catamaran.
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International Catamaran Challenge Trophy
The International Catamaran Challenge Trophy is the formal name for the match racing series between two catamarans familiarly known the Little Americas Cup.
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Jock Sturrock
Alexander Stuart "Jock" Sturrock MBE (14 May 1915 in Melbourne11 July 1997 in Noosa Heads) was a noted Australian yachtsman who won over four hundred national and state championship yachting races.
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Leading edge
The leading edge is the part of the wing that first contacts the air;Crane, Dale: Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition, page 305.
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Lock Crowther
Lock Crowther (c. 1940?–1993; first name by birth Lachlan) was an Australian multihull sailboat designer.
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Mast (sailing)
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.
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Melbourne
Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Moorabbin Airport
Moorabbin (Harry Hawker) Airport is a general aviation airport for light aircraft located in between the southern Melbourne suburbs of Heatherton, Cheltenham, Dingley Village and Mentone.
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Ochroma
Ochroma is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, containing the sole species Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as the balsa tree.
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Peter Derham
Sir Peter John Derham, AC (21 August 1925 – 24 September 2008) was an Australian business executive and philanthropist.
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Plywood
Plywood is a sheet material manufactured from thin layers or "plies" of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another.
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Point of sail
A point of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface.
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Polyethylene terephthalate
Polyethylene terephthalate (sometimes written poly(ethylene terephthalate)), commonly abbreviated PET, PETE, or the obsolete PETP or PET-P, is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in fibres for clothing, containers for liquids and foods, thermoforming for manufacturing, and in combination with glass fibre for engineering resins.
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Port Phillip
Port Phillip (also commonly referred to as Port Phillip Bay or (locally) just The Bay), is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia; it is the location of Melbourne.
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Rudder
A rudder is a primary control surface used to steer a ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft, aircraft, or other conveyance that moves through a fluid medium (generally air or water).
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Sail
A sail is a tensile structure—made from fabric or other membrane materials—that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles.
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Sheet (sailing)
In sailing, a sheet is a line (rope, cable or chain) used to control the movable corner(s) (clews) of a sail.
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Sorrento, Victoria
Sorrento is a coastal township in Victoria, Australia, located on the shores of Port Phillip on the Mornington Peninsula, about one and a half hours by car south of Melbourne.
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Spar (sailing)
A spar is a pole of wood, metal or lightweight materials such as carbon fibre used in the rigging of a sailing vessel to carry or support its sail.
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Spruce
A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.
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Tacking (sailing)
Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing vessel, whose desired course is into the wind, turns its bow toward the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side to the other, allowing progress in the desired direction.
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Trailing edge
The trailing edge of an aerodynamic surface such as a wing is its rear edge, where the airflow separated by the leading edge rejoins.
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Windward and leeward
Windward is the direction upwind from the point of reference, alternatively the direction from which the wind is coming.
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Wingsail
A wingsail is a variable-camber aerodynamic structure that is fitted to a marine vessel in place of conventional sails.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Nylex_catamaran
