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	Boat - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A boat consists of one or more buoyancy structures called hulls and some system of propulsion, such as a screw, oars, paddles, a setting pole, a sail, paddlewheels or a water jet.
		In UK English the term "gravy boat" is used to describe a small jug used to dispense meat gravy at the dining table.
		A boat can also be one of the massive cars manufactured in America from the 1950s through the 1970s.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Boat (941 words)

	Dugout Boat built by Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		dugouts made from the giant cedar trees of the California forests were often nearly one hundred feet long.
		Dugouts were made by carefully burning the wood and chipping the charred part out with stone adzes and bone chisels.
		A high bow or stern was made from sections of logs properly shaped and fitted to the hull of the dugout with cedar ropes and pegs.
	members.tripod.com /pambies/dugout.html (180 words)

	Boat Design
		The cockpits in very small boats is an open hatch during fair weather.
		The second time he had to hang on to his swamped dugout for 22 hours, waiting for the hurricane to passed, before he could bail out.
		Dugouts do not have a lot of displacement to support the added weight, so double outriggers are used instead of keels.
	www.motivation-tools.com /liki_tiki/design_safety.htm (1034 words)

	The dugout boat
		There exists much variation with the dugout boats in terms of their shape and structure.
		A dugout can also be a light graceful structure with shells so thin that they are indistinguishable from plank-built boats.
		A carvel-built boat is therefore heavier than a clinker-built vessel and for this reason it is solid and well suited to carrying heavy loads at sea.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/marion/dugout.html (531 words)

	Dugout (boat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A dugout is a boat which is basically a hollowed tree trunk.
		The Cossacks of the Zaporozhian Host were also renowned for their artful use of dugouts, which issued from the Dnieper to raid the shores of the Black Sea in the 16th and 17th centuries.
		In the Pacific Islands, dugout canoes are very large, made from whole mature trees and fitted with outriggers for increased stability in the ocean, and were once used for long-distance travel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dugout_(boat) (776 words)

	The Liki Tiki Project
		Dugout canoes with outriggers were the vessels used for these daring voyages.
		During 1970 I sailed a 36-foot dugout canoe with outriggers from Panama 5,000 miles to Hawaii.
		In the Tropic Zones of the world, the dugout canoe is the most popular form of water transportation.
	www.motivation-tools.com /liki_tiki/index.htm (311 words)

	Dugout coagulation
		A boat was moored in the dugout, and a 10 or 15 hp boat motor was used to circulate the water and to mix the chemicals throughout the water.
		The liquid aluminum sulphate was pumped into the dugout near the boat propeller and the whole dugout was mixed for about two hours to allow the chemicals to work properly.
		Dugout coagulation may also be useful for livestock watering and on-farm uses such as mixing with chemicals.
	www.agr.gc.ca /pfra/water/dugoutcoag_e.htm (1219 words)

	Minexchange.org - Travel and Tours guide. boat, mine, austrian arrows, sunshine express airlines, alaska, kam air, omni ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Among the men aboard the boat were several who, while they did not draw back from going into sam's project, had thought his taking the money not manly.
		In addition to its fleet of cruise ships, holland america also owns the westmark hotel chain which operates in alaska and the yukon, the bus companies gray line of seattle and gray line of alaska, and worldwide shore services, which provides warehouse and logistical support for the company.
		For the first time he realised that her life was full of meaning and that in her woman's way she had been quite as heroic in her years of patient toil as had been her man cracked mcgregor when he ran to his death in the burning mine.
	www.minexchange.org /Boat.html (1645 words)

	Life in Bocas del Toro, Panama: Getting around -- by Boat
		Building dugout canoes and pangas from logs is a local tradition, which we support by using mostly wooden boats.
		Larger dugout canoes are used to haul heavy loads such as lumber, horses, cement, and occasionally an entire small village.
		Our largest boat is a 42 ft dugout that was made in the jungle from a single Ceibo tree and required about 50 people to push to the ocean.
	www.outscape.net /bocas/archives/entries/getting_around_--_by_boat.html (465 words)

	Traveling on the Wild Missouri River
		Some of the boats commonly used on the Missouri River until the 1830s were dugout canoes, bullboats, keelboats and flatboats.
		A few dugout canoes that were sealed in sand and mud for hundreds of years have been uncovered near streams and rivers.
		The sides of a boat were usually 2 to 3 inches thick, and its bottom was 4 to 6 inches thick.
	mdc.mo.gov /kids/out-in/2003/01/2.htm (1585 words)

	Core Objectives - Lower Cost of Ownership
		The average life of dugout and small planked wooden boats today is typically less than 5 years due to the poor quality of wood that builders can find in the local market.
		The average price for a finished boat on the mainland is now 2,500,000 Rupiah ($270), which means that over a 15 year period, an owner would expect to have to spend at least 7,500,000 Rupiah or $700 to $800.
		The new boats must be affordable by the poorest of artisanal fishermen, and be capable of improving their livelihoods.
	www.electriclamb.org /AFP/pages/61.html (637 words)

	Applegate Boatworks Zydeco boat Plans
		The original pirogues were cypress dugout canoes carved by the Native Americans in the lower Mississippi Valley.
		The dugout canoes continued to be made into the 20th century.
		As time went on the boats were began to be made of cypress planks and ribs.
	www.applegateboatworks.com /zydeco.html (757 words)

	Center for Wooden Boats - Boat Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Red cedar dugout canoes were an integral part of their culture and were used for fishing, hunting, trading and social visits.
		This boat was donated to us by Lloyd Reed in 1983, after 70 years of use as a family boat.
		This is a 36' dugout canoe under donstruction by Saaduuts, a Haida native.
	www.cwb.org /BoatDatabasePaddleboats.htm (1190 words)

	THE DEVELOPMENT OF SHIPS AND RIVERCRAFT IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
		The most obvious method of movement, was for the boat to drift alone in the current, however with this method, steering was difficult and return trip upstream were next to impossible, meaning that the boat had to be dismantled and carried back as seen above with the animal bladder rafts.
		One thing that the Egyptians lacked in their ship designs was the idea of a keel, instead "a strong rope had been stretched over a series of props from bow to stern,"(26) to serve the keel’s function of strengthening the hull of the ship.
		Egyptians made boats out of reeds from the riverbanks of the Nile and the wood of the Acacia tree so that they could transport stone blocks to build such wonders as the pyramids.
	members.tripod.com /~chris_payette/files/Ancient_Boats_Paper.htm (1925 words)

	LogOntotheSevern
		Dugout boats are known in North West Europe from the middle of the Middle Stone Age c.
		Many of the Roman dugout boats known in Europe have a ‘punt-like form with a boxy-cross section and flat bottomed, they were probably carved to look like small planked boats.
		The Ellesmere boat is a small punt shaped, dugout boat that was found in a silted up lake area at Whattall Moss near Ellesmere in the 1860’s.
	www.logontothesevern.co.uk (1422 words)

	Lowcountry NOW: Local News - Kayaker discovers ancient canoe in May River 05/16/03
		The precise location of the dugout canoe discovered recently near the mouth of the May River will not be made public to preserve it from souvenir hunters.
		Two historic boats, the 29-foot "Bessie" and the 28-foot "Accommodation," are on display, but both are far bigger than most canoes and aren't dugouts, meaning made from one log.
		Harris was able to confirm from the boat that it was a dugout, and an old one, but couldn't tell anything else about it.
	www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/051603/LOCdugout.shtml (914 words)

	.: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives
		SPOKANE — A dugout canoe found by scuba divers at the bottom of Lake Pend Oreille is too young for scientists to discover its age through carbon dating.
		Wood samples taken from the boat reveal it is less than 380 years old but probably more than 100 years old, said Mary Anne Davis, associate state arcahelologist with the Idaho State Historical Society.
		It may prove to be too expensive to remove the boat and preserve it in a museum.
	www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2004/06/23/news/the_west/wedwst01.txt (365 words)

	dugout - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Two covered shelters called dugouts are located in foul territory along each base line.
		Players occupy the dugouts when they are not on the field....
		Canoe, light, narrow boat, generally with identically shaped bow and stern and curved sides, and usually propelled by at least one oar or paddle.
	encarta.msn.com /dugout.html (156 words)

	How to Coagulate your Dugout or Cell
		Prairie dugouts are generally sized to hold a sufficient supply of water for two years use.
		Dugout : Place the boat in water and moor it to sides of the dugout with of a heavy rope and steel anchors fixed on the shore.
		Boat placement should be one-third the distance from end, and one-third out from one side of the dugout.
	www.agr.gc.ca /pfra/water/coaghow_e.htm (1743 words)

	www.soomaa.com » Log Boat Trips » Dugout Building Camp
		Dugout is an ancient vessel type carved out of a single tree trunk.
		Boats with the same construction principles have been used in many places all over the world for thousand of years.
		century the dugout culture has survived among many indigenous people, in Estonia the region where local farmers have persistently used dugouts in their everyday life is in Soomaa — a region famous for its pristine nature, enormous flood seasons and Sooma National Park.
	www.soomaa.com /?id=396&lang=eng (312 words)

	Idaho Public TV Lewis & Clark in Idaho - Dugout Canoes on the Clearwater
		In October of 1805, the Corps of Discovery launched five dugout canoes onto the Clearwater River near present-day Orofino, Idaho, and began their water bound journey to the Pacific Ocean.
		Jack McKey was the man in charge of making sure the boats were "river-worthy." "These boats were developed for fresh water; they were developed for rivers with rapids, and so they have to be maneuverable.
		McKey says the Nez Perce method of building dugout canoes involved fire, which helped to season and fire-harden the vessels as the mass of wood was removed from the log.
	www.idahoptv.org /lc/canoes.html (428 words)

	A STANDARD STATISTICAL SYSTEM FOR CURRENT FISHERY STATISTICS IN INDONESIA
		A dugout enlarged with planks attached to both sides is also considered as a dugout boat.
		To form the shape of the boat a number of planks are attached to the ribs.
		Hence, when the same fishing boat employs two different types of gear or uses more than one type of gear at different times of a year, the number of fishing units is counted for each gear employed separately, although the same fishing boat is used.
	www.fao.org /docrep/field/003/N7334E/N7334E08.htm (2019 words)

	Sports: Boat proves seaworthy - sort of
		Adventurers buttress a dugout canoe, fit it with a sail and mast and take it for a ride in the gulf.
		Because it had been sitting for so long, the dugout, constructed from a solid mahogany log, was dry and brittle.
		On a warm May morning, we dropped the canoe in the water at a boat ramp in Cedar Key and paddled toward the open water of the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.sptimes.com /2004/06/21/Sports/Boat_proves_seaworthy.shtml (1203 words)

	The Au Sable River Boat
		The Au Sable River Boat is an historic type of workboat used for fly-fishing on Michigan’s AuSable and Manistee Rivers.
		If the boat is ¼ inch plywood as most are, you must trim another ¼ inch off the curved side of the template.
		After you have transferred you measurements to the new boat bottom you are ready to secure the chine strips to the bottom of the boat.
	www.guilttrip.com /html/the_au_sable_river_boat.html (1470 words)

	Print Article: 'Viking era' dugout boat found in Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A dugout canoe that may date from Viking times has been found in south Norway, giving clues to the lives of people who fished in a small lake perhaps 1000 years ago.
		The pine vessel was dragged from Royraas lake in south Norway on Monday after a tip from the family of two elderly men who had spotted the boat when they swam in the lake as children in the 1930s.
		He said the remains were about 3.5 metres long, suggesting the boat was originally about four to five metres long or big enough for several people.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/09/10/1062902114336.html (281 words)

	Dugout Canoe - Model
		ighty percent of the Corps of Discovery's round-trip journey was by water, in a total of 25 vessels of various types--the custom-built keelboat, two large flat-bottomed rowboats called pirogues, fifteen dugout canoes made from logs, four canoes bought from Indians, one stolen Indian canoe, and two buffalo-skin bullboats.
		All were either sold or destroyed by the time they got through the Falls, where they bought horses for the overland journey back to the Nez Perce village where they had left their Shoshone horses.
		Generally the dugouts were about thirty feet long and up to three feet wide, with a capacity of between two and three tons, including four to six men, who probably knelt in order to keep the center of gravity low and prevent tipping.
	www.lewis-clark.org /content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=513 (470 words)

	Dugout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dugout (shelter) - underground shelter, see, e.g., ambush
		Dugout (baseball) - location of the players' benches in baseball
		Dugout (football) - location of the players' benches in football (soccer)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dugout (114 words)

	Mystery boat finds port after storm - Two Louisiana men uncover a potential archaeological treasure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The boat's design follows the natural contour of the tree it came from and is chopped to a point at the bow.
		Cuts and carvings on the boat were done by hand, and holes atop the vessel were burned into the wood.
		Butler said the boat could be made of "jungle wood" because it is not carved from a tree indigenous to Louisiana or the Gulf Coast.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/799017/posts (1122 words)

	Columbia River Dugout Trip
		The men were able to swim a line out to my boat, which was tied off by my partner, Dave Hibbeler and we began to tow them in to shore.
		The other long boat seemed to be doing all right, but soon they were swamped also.
		I had not seen that second boat while we were cruising up and down that river and I can only believe he was sent by God to answer our prayers.
	www.lewisandclark.net /activities/2002/columbiacaper.htm (1406 words)

	A Rogue River dugout canoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We carved this canoe in 1999 from a Redwood log that came ashore at Coos Bay Oregon.
		It is the first traditional Chetco or Tututin dugout canoe on the Rogue River in several decades.
		The Rogue River is the northern most area where the Yurock style canoes were used.
	www.applegateboatworks.com /rogue.html (397 words)

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