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Beam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beam (nautical), in nautical terminology,the most extreme width (or breadth) of a vessel, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length. Tractor beam, the hypothetical beam from science fiction that pulls objects in. Beam (music), is a connection line in musical notation en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beam   (183 words)

Beam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beam (nautical), in nautical terminology,the most extreme width (or breadth) of a vessel, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length. Beam (music), is a connection line in musical notation Balance beam (gymnastics), a piece of gymnastics equipment. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beam   (171 words)

Beam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beam (nautical), in nautical terminology,the most extreme width (or breadth) of a vessel, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length. BEAM robotics, an automatically moving machine based on analog electronics Beam (music), is a connection line in musical notation en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beam   (171 words)

Beam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beam (nautical), in nautical terminology,the most extreme width (or breadth) of a vessel, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length. Balance beam (gymnastics), a piece of gymnastics equipment. Beam (music), is a connection line in musical notation en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beam   (145 words)

Beam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beam (nautical), in nautical terminology,the most extreme width (or breadth) of a vessel, or a point alongside the ship at the mid-point of its length. Beam (music), is a connection line in musical notation Balance beam (gymnastics), a piece of gymnastics equipment. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beam   (171 words)

2004 Spirit of Adventure Around Admiralty Island Sailing Race Cruising Class Specs: Commitment is a Catalina 36 built in 1987; length 36’; beam 12’; draft 6’; 13,500 displacement; fiberglass hull; fin keel; spade rudder; wheel steering; diesel powered Specs: High Noon is a Peterson 41 built in 1979; length 41’; beam 13’; draft 8’; 16,000 displacement; wood hull (cold-molded); fin keel; spade rudder; tiller steering; diesel powered Distance: changed to 10.1 nautical miles by moving finish line to Marmion Island www.bonanzasnorthwest.com /admiralty   (2751 words)

Nautical Chart Basics Nautical charts are different from maps in that they specifically depict water areas, while maps concentrate on land area, roads, landmarks, etc. Land areas and features on charts are sketchy and are noted only for their interest to the boater. Unlike maps, the nautical chart conveys much information specifically designed to assist in safely navigating the area that the chart covers. After traveling south for approximately six minutes you should be able to see the radio tower just off your starboard beam. www.boatsafe.com /nauticalknowhow/chart101.htm   (1709 words)

Nautical phrases and the origins of some present day expressions. Many nautical terms are pronounced with a West Country accent (many of Britain's first sailors came from Devon and Cornwall) such as bowline pronounced bo'lin, gunwhale pronounced gunnel, forward pronounced forrud and main sail pronounced mains'l. Port wine is red and so is the navigation light shown on the port beam of a vessel under way at night Port (larboard) or left side is an abbreviation of porta il timone (to carry the helm). users.aol.com /sailgower/lexicon.html   (4646 words)

Glossary of Nautical Terms Is a line that goes round a small barrel, abaft the barrel of the wheel, and coming to the front beam of the poop-deck, moves the tell-tale with the turning of the wheel, and keeps it always in such position as to show the position of the tiller. so that a ship may perform all nautical operations without danger of shipwreck. A term used by the man at the cun to the steersman, directing him not to go from the wind. www.psych.su.oz.au /vbb/woronora/maritime/Glossary.html   (4646 words)

Hydro Lance Fast Ship Economies of Operation This catamaran is smaller, having a length of 312 feet and a beam of 48 feet. The 175 ton Mestral class (250 passengers) catamaran consumes $1,263 per hour of fuel to travel 32 nautical miles in a sea state of Beaufort 4. Therefore, the cost of fuel could be compared at $228 per hour for the example speed of 32 nautical miles in one hour. www.hydrolance.net /page9.htm   (1911 words)

Glossary of Nautical Terms (circa 1814) Is a line that goes round a small barrel, abaft the barrel of the wheel, and coming to the front beam of the poop-deck, moves the tell-tale with the turning of the wheel, and keeps it always in such position as to show the position of the tiller. Pulling by means of a single block is never termed HOISTING, except only the drawing of the sails upwards along the masts or stays. so that a ship may perform all nautical operations without danger of shipwreck. www.titanic-nautical.com /Nautical-Facts-Information-Nautical-Terms.html   (10695 words)

Encyclopedia: I beam As a nautical term, beam was transferred from the main cross-timbers to the side of the ship; thus on the weather-beam means to windward, and a ship is said to be wide in the beam when she is wide horizontally. In the last case, from meaning simply the cross-bar of the balance, beam has come to be used of the whole, as in the expression the kings beam, or common beam, which refers to the old English standard balance for wholesale goods, for several hundred years in the custody of the Grocers Company, London. Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of beam as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/I_beam   (231 words)

NASA WSTF  White Sands Space Harbor Navigational Aids The MSBLS is a Ku-band precision approach and landing navigation aid that provides slant range, azimuth, and elevation data to the orbiter from approximately an 18,000-ft (5486-m) altitude, 15-nautical-mi (28 km) range, through touchdown. The Shuttle Landing Facility is equipped with a number of navigation and landing aids to assist shuttle pilots in landing. The TACAN is a worldwide air traffic navigation system operated by the Department of Defense and used by civilian and military aircraft. www.wstf.nasa.gov /WSSH/NavAids.htm   (231 words)

Glossary of Nautical Terms Is a line that goes round a small barrel, abaft the barrel of the wheel, and coming to the front beam of the poop-deck, moves the tell-tale with the turning of the wheel, and keeps it always in such position as to show the position of the tiller. The situation also of any distant object, estimated from some part of the ship, according to her situation; these latter bearings are either on the beam, before the beam, abaft the beam, on the lee or weather bow, on the lee or weather quarter, ahead or astern. Denotes the relative situation of any object with the ship when the object is placed in any part of that arch of the horizon which is contained between a line at right angles with the keel and that point of the compass which is directly opposite to the ship's course. www.psych.su.oz.au /vbb/woronora/maritime/Glossary.html   (231 words)

The application of remote sensing technology to marine fisheries: an introductory manual Figure 8.6 Dimensions of the sound beam form the echo sounder at 20 m echo depth in relation to the distance between trawl doors and wind ends of the trawl net. Although no detailed quantitative analysis of the echo- recording was made, it was possible to differentiate echo-traces to three arbitrary types regarding fish biomass: very scattered (1–10 mm per nautical mile), scattered (11–20 mm per nautical mile) and dense (greater than 20 mm per nautical mile). By analyzing the echo recording of the bottom, the general characteristics of the continental shelf of Sri Lanka were found to be “even flat” with an “uneven” and “very rough” outer edge. www.fao.org /docrep/003/t0355e/T0355E08.htm   (9820 words)

The Nautical Institute - Colregs Survey 3: "Vessels not in sight" The vessel to port is on a steady bearing and the relative vector shows collision in approximately eight minutes from a position roughly half a point forward of the beam. Both own vessel and the target have each other forward of the beam and both are required to avoid altering to port. However it has been interesting to note, that these vociferous proponents of single action, ie, one vessel stand-on, also seem to be oblivious to the fact that the Rules already contain a dual action system sanctioned by Rule 19. www.nautinst.org /colregs/articles/seawaysDec03Syms.htm   (1696 words)

Medium-earth-altitude satellite-based cellular telecommunications system (US5415367) A satellite-based cellular telecommunications system employing a constellation of telecommunications satellites in medium earth orbit to provide multibeam radio frequency (rf) communications links for world-wide cellular telephone service with a minimum number of satellites. The telecommunications satellites are placed in a plurality of inclined orbits about the earth at an altitude of between approximately 5600 and 10,000 nautical miles. Satellite signaling system having a signal beam with a variable beam area www.delphion.com /details?pn%3DUS05415367__   (906 words)

Yanbu' Al Bahr Yanbu Commercial Port is located on the East coast of Red Sea approximately 460 nautical miles South of Suez Canal and 168 nautical miles North-West of Jeddah. Yanbu Commercial Port is suitable for handling different types of ships including General cargo, Ro — Ro, passenger ships, bulk-cargo etc. The mile-long entry channel is over 200 mtrs wide and ships with beam upto 50 m and LOA of 260 m can safely navigate through this port. Yanbu serves as Saudi Arabia's second Red Sea port, after Jidda, and is the main port for Medina, 100 miles (160 km) to the east. www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/yanbu.htm   (906 words)

MarineWaypoints.com - Nautical Glossary Abaft the beam - Any direction between the beam and the stern, more behind a vessel than in front of it. Abaft - Behind or aft of; on the after side of; towards the stern relative to some other object or position. Aback - Condition of sail when the wind pressure is on the leeward or forward side, with sails backed or trimmed to windward (wind on the wrong side of the sails) Also known as "backwinded" www.marinewaypoints.com /learn/glossary/glossary.shtml   (906 words)

Medium-earth-altitude satellite-based cellular telecommunications system (US5433726) The telecommunications satellites are placed in a plurality of inclined orbits about the earth at an altitude of between approximately 5600 and 10,000 nautical miles. A satellite-based cellular telecommunications system employing a constellation of telecommunications satellites in medium earth orbit to provide multibeam radio frequency (rf) communications links for worldwide cellular telephone service with a minimum number of satellites. The present invention also includes several additional features which essentially eliminate beam-to-beam and satellite-to-satellite handovers, thus dramatically reducing the likelihood of dropouts. www.delphion.com /details?pn=US05433726__   (1085 words)

Untitled Document Recent projects have been related to shoreline mapping, and basic nautical charting using single beam and multi-beam sensors as well as airborne bathymetric lidar. John Oswald and Associates, LLC (JOA), is an Alaska based and licensed, limited liability Corporation, established in 2003. Ownership is held by John Oswald, Erik Oppegard, and Mike Zieserl. www.joasurveys.com   (286 words)

Pitcairn Islands Study Center HMS RESOLUTION (schooner) Two-masted schooner, 30 feet long with a beam of 9 feet 6 inches, built on Tahiti by the loyalists and some of the mutineers who had stayed on the island when Christian sailed away on the Bounty. MATUKU Matuku is an island in the Lau group in the Fijis, situated about 290 nautical miles almost due west of Tofua at 19 degrees 09 minutes South, 179 degrees 44 minutes East. HMS GORGON Captain Edwards, Lieutenant Larkin, and the ten accused mutineers who had survived the wreck of the Pandora sailed on this 44-gun frigate from Cape Town on April 6, 1792, and arrived at Spithead on June 19. library.puc.edu /pitcairn/bounty/pandora-encyclopedia.shtml   (286 words)

Lighthouses@Lighthouse Digest ... Abandoned Morris Island Light to Be Saved? Perhaps the newest operating light on the east coast, it has an elevator and its lantern room beam can be seen up to 26 nautical miles at sea, making it one of the brightest lights in the Western Hemisphere. Work is now underway to raise the Hunley and repair the Morris Island Light. The Assistant Keepers House of the Morris Island... www.lhdigest.com /Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=443   (286 words)

How do those rating systems and all that stuff work? In a handicapped race, the IOR length is used to compute a ``time allowance,'' in seconds per nautical mile (s/M) which is multiplied by the distance of the race, and subtracted from the boat's actual time, to compute the boat's corrected time. The IOR concentrates on hull shape with length, beam, free board and girth measurements, foretriangle, mast and boom measurements, and stability with an inclination test. The IOR also identifies features which are dangerous or it can't fairly rate, and penalizes or prohibits them. www.cs.brown.edu /people/jfh/personal_other/boats/FAQ/node13.html   (286 words)

Feds Postpone Laser Safety Tests - October, 1998 This level can create a veiling glare that is about as bright as the high beams on an automobile, said Greg Makhov, president of Lighting Systems Design Inc. in Orlando, Fla., and a member of the research group. If the beam termination is impractical, laser operators should arrange direct contact with airports so that the laser could be shut off immediately. The delayed delivery of a laser has held up evaluations of the US Federal Aviation Administration's guidelines for laser exposure within 10 nautical miles of an airport. www.photonics.com /spectra/tech/read.asp?techid=430   (569 words)

Space Transfer For comparison, an Atlas II launch vehicle can lift a mass of 8400 kg to parking orbit of 80 x 279 nautical miles (28.5°), and can deliver 2700 kg to geostationary orbit. A new method for providing power to space vehicles consists of using ground-based lasers to beam power to photovoltaic receivers in space. Geoffrey A. Landis, Mark Stavnes, and Steve Oleson powerweb.grc.nasa.gov /pvsee/publications/lasers/AIAA92_3213.html   (569 words)

350Ward Displacement: 1,090 tons Length: 314 feet 4 inches Beam: 30 feet 10 inches Draught: 9 feet 2 inches Machinery: four White-Foster boilers; two shaft Parsons turbines Performance: 24,200 shp for 35 knots Range: 2,500 nautical miles at 20 knots Guns: four 4 inch; one 3 inch Torpedoes: twelve 21 inch USS Ward 1/350 resin kit built by Fred Heil www.totalnavy.com /350ward.htm   (67 words)

350Ward Displacement: 1,090 tons Length: 314 feet 4 inches Beam: 30 feet 10 inches Draught: 9 feet 2 inches Machinery: four White-Foster boilers; two shaft Parsons turbines Performance: 24,200 shp for 35 knots Range: 2,500 nautical miles at 20 knots Guns: four 4 inch; one 3 inch Torpedoes: twelve 21 inch USS Ward 1/350 resin kit built by Fred Heil www.modelshipbuilding.com /350ward.htm   (67 words)

350Ward Displacement: 1,090 tons Length: 314 feet 4 inches Beam: 30 feet 10 inches Draught: 9 feet 2 inches Machinery: four White-Foster boilers; two shaft Parsons turbines Performance: 24,200 shp for 35 knots Range: 2,500 nautical miles at 20 knots Guns: four 4 inch; one 3 inch Torpedoes: twelve 21 inch USS Ward 1/350 resin kit built by Fred Heil www.modelshipbuilding.com /350ward.htm   (67 words)

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