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Hiking (sailing)

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In sailing, hiking (stacking or stacking out in New Zealand; leaning out or sitting out in United Kingdom) is the action of moving the crew's body weight as far to windward (upwind) as possible, in order to decrease the extent the boat heels (leans away from the wind). [1]

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Canoe sailing

Canoe sailing refers to the practice of fitting an Austronesian outrigger or Western canoe with sails.

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Capsizing

Capsizing or keeling over occurs when a boat or ship is turned on its side or it is upside down in the water.

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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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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US.

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Dinghy sailing

Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls.

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Displacement (ship)

The displacement or displacement tonnage of a ship is its weight, expressed in long tons of water its hull displaces.

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Hobie 16

The ISAF International Class Hobie 16 (H16) is a popular catamaran manufactured by the Hobie Cat Company for racing and day sailing.

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Hull (watercraft)

The hull is the watertight body of a ship or boat.

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International 14

The International 14 is 14-foot double-handed racing dinghy.

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Keelboat

A keelboat is a riverine cargo-capable working boat, or a small- to mid-sized recreational sailing yacht.

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Laser 2

The Laser 2 is a double-handed version of the popular Laser one-design class of small sailing dinghy.

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Leeway

Leeway is the amount of drift motion to leeward of an object floating in the water caused by the component of the wind vector that is perpendicular to the object’s forward motion.

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Moment (physics)

In physics, a moment is an expression involving the product of a distance and a physical quantity, and in this way it accounts for how the physical quantity is located or arranged.

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Moore 30

The Moore 30 is an American sailboat, that was designed by Gary Mull as a racer and first built in 1985.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Rope

A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibers or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form.

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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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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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Sea captain

A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner in ultimate command of the merchant vessel.

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Shorts

Shorts are a garment worn over the pelvic area, circling the waist and splitting to cover the upper part of the legs, sometimes extending down to the knees but not covering the entire length of the leg.

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Skate (dinghy)

The Skate is a high performance two-person racing dinghy unique to Australia.

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Skiff

The term skiff is used for a number of essentially unrelated styles of small boat.

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Tack (sailing)

In sailing, tack is a corner of a sail on the lower leading edge.

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Tiller

A tiller or till is a lever used to steer a vehicle.

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Trapeze (sailing)

In sailing, the trapeze refers to a wire that comes from a point high on the mast, usually where the shrouds are fixed, to a hook on the crew member's harness at approximately waist level.

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Turtling (sailing)

In dinghy sailing, a boat is said to be turtling or to turn turtle when the boat is fully inverted with the mast pointing down to the lake bottom or seabed.

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US Sailing

The United States Sailing Association (US Sailing) is the national governing body for sailing in the United States.

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Webbing

2 inch (50 mm) Nylon webbing as used in auto racing harnesses Webbing is a strong fabric woven as a flat strip or tube of varying width and fibres, often used in place of rope.

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420 (dinghy)

The International 420 Class Dinghy (not to be confused with the Club 420) is a double-handed (2 crew) monohull planing dinghy with centreboard, bermuda rig and center sheeting.

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49er (dinghy)

The 49er and 49er FX is a two-handed skiff-type high-performance sailing dinghy.

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505 (dinghy)

The International 505 is a one-design high-performance two-person monohull planing centreboard dinghy, with spinnaker, using a trapeze for the crew.

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Redirects here:

Hiking strap, Hiking straps, Hiking wings, Toe-straps.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiking_(sailing)

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