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	Capstan (nautical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rope is wound around one or more times, but is not stored on a capstan — that arrangement is usually called a winch.
		Ships' capstans were traditionally manually operated — consisting of a shaped wooden drum with handles inserted into the rim, at which men could push or pull.
		It seems that in Tudor times, when 'kissing the gunner's daughter' was not yet a tradition, the capstan was a favorite place for sailors to be bound over for a whipping, even for 'petty pilferings'.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Capstan_(nautical) (218 words)

	* Capstan - (Boating): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Capstan: A cylindrical barrel fitted on the forecastle deck used for heavy lifting.
		Capstan: The cylindrical wheel and axle mechanism powered by the crew hands and used to wind up a cable around the barrel.
		Capstan- A vertical winch on deck, used for hauling, such as the anchor line.
	www.mimihu.com /boating/capstan.html (371 words)

	June 2 - Saint Elmo, St. Elmo's Fire, and Nautical Capstans
		The above picture is a reenactment of the crew of the Mayflower pulling a line, or rope, using a captstan, which is a nautical winch.
		Since the winding apparatus of the day was the nautical capstan, that is how he became the patron saint of sailors.
		Saint Elmo's fire is a nautical phenomenon wherein a ship's mast, after an electrical storm, discharges energy that appears as a light at the top of the mast.
	www.goatview.com /june2.htm (198 words)

	Modeling Shipboard Equipment: A Capstan, Ship Model Shop Report 2
		The main capstan was used to weigh the anchors.
		Up to 14 capstan bars could be fitted into the sockets around the drumhead on the middle gun deck, and 12 bars could be used with the trundlehead on the lower gun deck.
		The pawls served as ratchets to prevent the capstan from surging backwards under pressure.
	nautarch.tamu.edu /model/report2 (570 words)

	Dry Dock Models Forum :: View topic - Windlass and Capstan
		Much larger ships used capstans to raise heavier anchors but that doesn't mean that the Bounty didn't raise them with the windlass and handle supplies and life boats with the capstan.
		Capstans and windlasses could be used interchangabley for these operations, and if all topmasts were to be raised quickly, what better than to have two capstans and a windlass.
		The capstan was not moved during the refit, and the newly-fitted compagnionway afore it and the skylight aft of it interfered somewhat with its easy operation, as the men on the bars now had to step aside when the bars passed over these obstacles.
	forum.drydockmodels.com /viewtopic.php?t=2633 (1194 words)

	Nautical Dictionary. Pirates, Buccaneers, Privateers & Swashbucklers. Castlebound Enterpises.
		Capstan: the drum-like part of the windlass, which is a machine used for winding in rope, cables or chain connected to an anchor cargo.
		Nautical mile: One minute of latitude; approximately 6076 feet: about 1/8 longer than the statute mile of 5280 feet.
		Wing and wing: The situation of a fore-and-aft vessel when she is going dead before the wind, with her forsail hauled over on one side and her mainsail on the other.
	www.vleonica.com /shipterm.htm (7029 words)

	Getting Under Way with James Fenimore Cooper
		The sailing ship and the peculiar language used in its operation have become so distant in time that their use in literature usually provides the reader with some more or less "salty" feeling, rather than providing a distinctly detailed picture of what is actually going on at that moment in that particular tale.
		As for the latter, she knew nothing of the air, and was quite unconscious of the sort of parody that the gentlemen of the quarter-deck fancied it conveyed on her own situation.
		The messenger is a belt around the main capstan and a smaller one some distance away; to this endless belt the chain is attached at several places as it is pulled in and fed below decks.
	external.oneonta.edu /cooper/articles/suny/1978suny-madison.html (3304 words)

	Used Boats for Sale \| A Boat Trader Directory of Yachts and Boats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A rope used for heaving in a cable by the capstan.
		As someone has already noted, a nautical mile is approximately 6080 English feet and that is often useful as a working measurement.
		Thus, 10,000 km should be equal to 5400 nautical miles, if the former was defined correctly and the world was a perfect sphere.
	www.usedboats.com /nautical-terms-glossary.htm (12142 words)

	Rogues Cove Nautical Knowledge
		The capstan was a mushroom shaped object with holes along the top.
		Sailors inserted bars into the holes and marched around the capstan to raise the anchor.
		Capstan shanties had steady rhythms and usually told stories because of the length of time (which could be hours) it took to raise the anchor.
	www.roguescove.org /info/shantys (676 words)

	Dixon Kemp's Dictionary
		The practical difficulty about applying an ordinary motor engine to a capstan with a common clutch gearing is that the motor runs at a high speed, and the sudden violent strain coming on the chain from the capstan with great force and shock is apt to break down the motor.
		M is the main motor, driving the capstan C through the reducing gear B and shafting S. The use of the capstan in the ordinary way by hand is not interfered with.
		The makers of this motor capstan are Pascall and Atkey, the yacht fitters, of Cowes, and they have fitted one of them to a 17-ton fishing yacht which was built at Southampton.
	www.friend.ly.net /users/dadadata/kemp/dictC1.html (5007 words)

	NAUTICAL DICTIONARY
		Capstan: - the drum-like part of the windlass, which is a machine used for winding in rope, cables or chain connected to an anchor cargo.
		Capstan-bars - are heavy pieces of wood by which the capstan is hove round.
		A stopper used for securing the cable forward of the windlass or capstan, while it is overhauled.
	www.geocities.com /cjstein_2000/dictionary.html (10349 words)

	Roll & Go - Outward Bound CD Notes
		Rollicking Randy Dandy-O - This capstan or pump shanty is led by Dick Dufresne.
		Yangtse River Shanty - This newer capstan shanty is led by Dick Dufresne, with guitar by Eli Dale and banjo by Charlie Ipcar.
		The Saltpetre Shanty - This traditional capstan shanty is from Hugill's collection, as adapted by William Pint and Felicia Dale on their Port of Dreams recording.
	www.norrisdale.com /rg_cd_2002/rg_cd_2002_notes.htm (1509 words)

	jeer - Wiktionary
		An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting or lowering the lower yards of a ship.
		Jeer capstan, (Nautical): an extra capstan usually placed between the foremast and mainmast.
		Perhaps a corruption of cheer to salute with cheers, taken in an ironical sense; or more probably from Dutch gekscheren to jeer, literally, to shear the fool; gek a fool (see geck) + scheren to shear.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/jeer (174 words)

	Capstan - Capstan Winch Manual RTC7013 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		we could wrap the capstan with a layer or two of splicing tape, the effective diameter of the capstan, and therefore tape speed, by a small amount.
		A capstan is an apparatus for winding a rope bearing a weight around a The capstan in the museum consists of a vertical cylinder which rotates by means
		Capstan Docklands London 1 Capstan Square Isle of Dogs E14 3EU England Modern house close to Canary Wharf bed and breakfast Hotel BandB accommodation.
	www.onlinewebinfo.org /?q=capstan (447 words)

	Ships Locker - Online Catalog of Quality Nautical Gift Items, Jewelry, and Marine Clothing for Sailors, Boaters, and ...
		Included the chief engineer, who ran the engine and supervised; oilers and wipers, who lubricated and maintained the engine; and firemen and coal-passers, who fed the steam boilers.
		Capstan - A vertical, spool-shaped rotating drum around which cable, hawser or chain is wound for hoisting anchors, sails and other heavy weights.
		Nautical Mile - One minute of latitude; approximately 6076 feet - about 1/8 longer than the statute mile of 5280 feet.
	shipslocker.com /terms.html (5286 words)

	Articles - Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nautical means related to sailors, particularly customs and practices at sea.
		Naval is the adjective pertaining to ships though in common usage, it has come to be more particularly associated with the noun 'navy'.
		Capstan - a winch with a vertical axis.
	www.foreverd.com /articles/Ship (2375 words)

	GLOSSARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is of horizontal bands; blue, white, red, white and blue.
		Capstan - A barrel that stands vertically with sockets around the top edge into which bars were fitted.
		Because the knot is a complete statement, it is unnecessary and incorrect to state a speed as so many 'knots per hour'.
	www.sdmaritime.com /old_site/seachest/glossary.html (2293 words)

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		The Large Sized Capstan Table Lamp measures 23" x 16".
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	Nautical phrases and the origins of some present day expressions.
		Nautical phrases and the origins of some present day expressions.
		To pass above a mark is to pass on its windward or weather side; to pass below a mark is to pass on its lee side (to leeward - pronounced loo'wud) or downwind side.
		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.
	users.aol.com /sailgower/lexicon.html (4646 words)

	GRADUATION - LoveToKnow Article on GRADUATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is the most important and difficult part of the work of the mathematical instrument maker, and is required in the construction of most physical, astronomical, nautical and surveying instruments.
		The art was first practised by clockmakers for cutting the teeth of their wheels at regular intervals; but so long as it was confined to them no particular delicacy or accurate nicety in its performance was required.
		Through each of these teeth a hole is bored parallel to the plane of the plate and also to a tangent to its circumference.
	www.1911ency.org /G/GR/GRADUATION.htm (5795 words)

	Capstan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		in both of these, the capstan is analogous to a rack and pinion arrangement found in gear systems.
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
		This page was last modified 03:04, 30 August 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Capstan (93 words)

	Maritime Terms and Definitions
		Capstan-bar: A wooden bar which may be shipped in the capstan head for heaving around by hand (to heave up anchor or heavy objects by manpower).
		Capstan: The vertical barrel device used to heave in cable or lines.
		Knot: A twisting, turning, tying, knitting, or entangling of ropes or parts of a rope so as to join two ropes together or make a finished end on a rope, for certain purpose.
	www.usmm.net /terms.html (6890 words)

	NAUTICAL NOTIONS A glossary of sailing terms.
		An instrument by which the anchor is weighed out of the ground, it being a great mechanical power, and is used for setting up the shrouds, and other work where great purchases are required.
		Heavy pieces of timber by which the capstan is hove round to raise the anchor.
		To incline a vessel down on one side, to access her bottom for cleaning or repair.
	users.eastlink.ca /~grahamfamily/termsc.htm (1380 words)

	Useful Nautical Terms
		The following is a list of mostly historical however usually still valid nautical terms.
		Measured by running out a stern line (or log line) knotted at measured intervals which bear the same proportion to a mile as half a second does to an hour.
		Voyol A large rope used to unmoor, or heave up the anchors of a ship, by transmitting the effort of the capstan to the cables.
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	ship lamp - nautical lamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		ship lamp is a Spanish crafted nautical lamp.
		Each ship lamp is made with mahogany stained teak wood.
		The shades on these ship lamps are replicated nautical chart shades.
	hightideimports.com /SubFolders/Lamps.htm (53 words)

	Nautical Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A speed unit of 1 nautical mile (6,076 feet or 1.852 kilometers) per hour.
		A barge used to load and unload ships not lying at piers, or to move cargo around a harbor; to unload.
		I don't profess to be an expert at nautical terminology.
	my.execpc.com /~reva/terms.htm (3214 words)

	Lyndale Island Yacht Club > Glossary of Nautical Terms
		Nautical measurement of depth of six feet or 1.83m.
		Soft rubber or other material to prevent chafe between vessels, or vessel and pier.
		When the ship's head is swung by the action of the waves.
	www.lyndaleisland.com /yachtclub/showroom/glossary.html (2595 words)

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