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	Koch (boat) - Definition, explanation
		Koch (pl. kochi), a special type of small two-mast wooden sailing ships designed and used in Russia for Polar voyages in ice conditions of the Arctic seas.
		Koch was the unique ship of this class and it remained as such for several centuries.
		A distinctive peculiarity of koch was the relatively big size of its square rudder fin which compensated for the special extra-slim design of the upper part of the rudder.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/k/ko/koch__boat_.php (633 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Koch (boat) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Koch was a special type of small two-mast wooden sailing ships designed and used in Russia for transpolar voyages in ice conditions of the Arctic seas, popular among the Pomors.
		A distinctive peculiarity of the koch was the relatively big size of its square rudder fin which compensated for the special extra-slim design of the upper part of the rudder.
		Koch was so prone to on-board pratfalls that after twice being bonked on the head by a swinging boom he was presented with a San Diego Charger helmet by a local disc jockey.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Koch-%28boat%29 (1461 words)

	Furor ahoy - The Boston Globe
		The boats, installed this month as part of an exhibit that opens tomorrow of more than 100 objects owned by multimillionaire collector William I. Koch, are the attention-grabbing billboard in MFA director Malcolm Rogers's latest production.
		The boats and the show are stirring fresh controversy in the museum world over the choices made by Rogers, who has recently been criticized for loaning paintings to a Las Vegas casino and staging an exhibition featuring fashion designer Ralph Lauren's cars.
		Koch is also famous for several high-profile court fights, including one opposing family members over an inheritance, and another against a mistress who, he contended, wouldn't leave his Boston condo.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2005/08/30/furor_ahoy/?page=full (1388 words)

	SI.com - SI Online - SI Flashback: Koch, He's The Real Thing - Friday February 14, 2003 02:04 PM
		Quick with his opinions, awkward in his manner, contrarian in his views, the bespectacled Koch was at various times during the competition referred to as clownish, arrogant and zany, and as the Gerald Ford of sailing.
		Koch was so prone to on-board pratfalls that after twice being bonked on the head by a swinging boom he was presented with a San Diego Charger helmet by a local disc jockey.
		But if Koch was a little of all those things, he was also the mastermind, bankroller and, to the disdain of professional sailors, part-time helmsman of the America 3 effort.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /si_online/flashback/05/25/1992/koch_hes_the_real_thing (1918 words)

	Boat Mast
		Boats were battered by fierce winds and capsized by seas towering well over 50 feet high.
		Koch (boat) - Koch (pl. kochi), a special type of small two-mast wooden sailing ships designed and used in Russia for Polar voyages in ice conditions of the Arctic seas.
		Its tack is fixed to the bowsprit, to the bow, or to the deck between the bowsprit and the foremost mast.
	bo51.majestic-equip.com /boatmast.html (1652 words)

	Greater Boston: Koch at the MFA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the boats, America3, was sailed to victory by Koch, the team’s captain, in 1992 the first year he’d ever entered the competition.
		Koch’s collection, it has been in a private home and very well loved and appreciated by all members of his family,” says MFA Head Objects Conservator Pamela Hatchfield.
		In yet another conservation lab, a number of Koch’s firearms, originally gripped by the nimblest fingers of the west including those of Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyatt Earp, and more sit in plastic boxes as their mounts are molded and curators map out their display.
	www.greaterboston.tv /features/gb_20050809_koch2.html (495 words)

	Greater Boston: Koch at the MFA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the boats, America3, was sailed to victory by Koch, the team’s captain, in 1992 the first year he’d ever entered the competition.
		Koch’s collection, it has been in a private home and very well loved and appreciated by all members of his family,” says MFA Head Objects Conservator Pamela Hatchfield.
		In yet another conservation lab, a number of Koch’s firearms, originally gripped by the nimblest fingers of the west including those of Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyatt Earp, and more sit in plastic boxes as their mounts are molded and curators map out their display.
	greaterboston.tv /features/gb_20050809_koch2.html (495 words)

	Koch Betting on MIT and Big Sails
		We're taking a purely objective look." When Koch applied the same MIT technology he hopes will win him the America's Cup to his maxi-boat racing efforts, he found that a basic rule of thumb-that lighter is better in maxi racing-was in fact contrary to making the fastest boat.
		(The test boat is 42 percent of the size of Koch's actual boats, the Defiant and the Jayhawk.) All rigging is attached to this frame, and has six load cells, or transducers, attaching the frame to the hull.
		Koch, a relative newcomer to sailing, says he became "infatuated" with the sport in 1984, when he bought a sailboat to cruise on.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/tt/1991/dec04/25540.html (1533 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		William Ingraham Koch is the son of Fred C. Koch, founder of Koch Industries, a business empire based on oil refining that became the largest privately owned company in America.
		Koch is an avid supporter of the Sea Scout program of the Boy Scouts of America, biannually hosting the William I. Koch International Sea Scout Cup.
		Koch's third marriage in 2005 was to Bridget Rooney, granddaughter of Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Bill_Koch_(businessman) (879 words)

	Boat Slips as Investments
		As the world’s population increases and baby boomers retire, boat ownership is rapidly increasing and available options for parking boats are decreasing.
		Boat slips in general are seeing rising demand, but slips for large boats are in especially high demand.
		People who rent out boat slips typically see returns of 4 to 10 percent, though the returns tend to be on the lower end of that range because of the fees associated with owning a boat slip, Jackson-Pownall said.
	www.nuwireinvestor.com /articles/boat-slips-as-investments-51167.aspx (1316 words)

	Cool Things, America3 Model, Kansas State Historical Society
		The America³ was one of several vessels built by Koch's syndicate as potential contenders for the America's Cup.
		His unorthodox scientific approach to boat design was a major contributor to the skepticism in yachting circles that America³ was not a serious contender.
		This model of the America³ was donated to the Kansas Museum of History by Koch in 1995.
	www.kshs.org /cool/coolboat.htm (183 words)

	Sailing Magazine
		His first boat was the Nimble 20, a spry yawl that was a refreshing alternative to the small stamped- out trailersailers of the day.
		Koch, a former CNN photographer, was an innovator in trailerable sailboats.
		Of the six boats I was able to locate currently for sale, four had outboards, ranging from 8 horsepower to 15 horsepower, and two had diesels, including a two-cylinder 15-horsepower Yanmar and one with a 27-horsepower Westerbeke.
	www.sailingmagazine.net /ubn_nimblekodiak.html (1801 words)

	William F. Koch Research Site
		Koch decided that he would visit Louvain and acquaint Professor Maisin with what he was doing, and discuss his Theories on the oxidation mechanism and its relation to cancer.
		The Minister of War arranged with Dr. Koch to establish the Treatment at the large Military Hospital in Rio, where he was to teach the officers of the medical staff its clinical application, and the chemists of the army, the method of preparing it.
		Koch plainly informed the Food and Drug Administration that these were not Koch products, but rather that the Koch Remedies are polymers of carbon suboxide and polymers of the internal anhydride of glyoxylic acid; substances which are resins and which under no circumstances can be converted into glyoxylic acid or malonic acid.
	www.williamfkoch.com /web/version2/colleagues.php?id=115.0&dispID=disp(1);disp(2); (5512 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Koch's
		He worked with Kitasato at Koch's laboratory in Berlin and from 1895 was professor of hygiene at Marburg.
		Koch Industries Celebrates Fred Koch's 100th Birthday Anniversary.
		Koch's Foods Workers to Hold Election to Gain a Voice on the Job.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Koch's (595 words)

	Grip Boat (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Grip Boat Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm by Tony Farrington, In June 1994 a dangerous andquot;bombandquot; storm caught dozens of cruising sailors by surprise as they voyaged north from New Zealand.
		Grip Boat Once Is Enough by Miles Smeeton, andquot;Unique among books of maritime adventure.andquot;--andquot;New York Times Book Review When andquot;Tzu Hang, a 46-foot ketch, set sail from Melbourne, Australia, in December 1956 bound for England, Miles and Beryl Smeeton and their friend John Guzzwell had little concept of the challenges or terrors that awaited them.
		Ice boat - An Ice boat is a boat or purpose built framework similar in appearance to a sail boat but fitted with skis or runners (skates) and designed to run over ice instead of (liquid) water.
	www.gaskillantiques.com /Grip-Boat.xml (6038 words)

	CNN.com - Young sailor wins Figaro first leg - August 8, 2002
		The final 465-mile leg starts on August 25 with the boats heading north into the English Channel to the finish in Cherbourg.
		Electronic autopilots are used, but most of the skippers prefer to steer by hand when they are not working the boat, navigating or catching short naps.
		It is the last season for the Finot /Berret designed boat that has been used for the last 12 races.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/sailing/08/08/figaro.spt/index.html (478 words)

	Purpose Boat
		Boat Storage - Boat Storage Porta-bote - A portaboat (also foldaboat, foldboat, folding boat, or porta-bote, all registered trade marks) is a type of small recreational boat that folds flat for storage and transport.
		Most notably, the surface-ship-like sharp V-shaped andquot;fleet boat bowandquot; was replaced with a spindly mast--a hyperthyroid daysailer with bunks for the seven dwarfs; NOT what you had to choose a single book to help you assess and maintain your boat to ABYC standards.
		Purpose Boat andnbsp; Sail Boat Insurance Ice boat - An Ice boat is a boat or purpose built framework similar in appearance to a sail boat but fitted with skis or runners (skates) and designed to run over ice instead of (liquid) water.
	www.tulsafpsc.com /Purpose/Boat.xml (5773 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: A last-ditch effort to set sale
		The boat has been deemed unseaworthy and the costs to allow it to once again sail - as opposed to sleep - with the fishes are beyond Reed.
		Finding a new home for the boat by giving it away to either a museum or a charity is not as simple as it might sound, despite its colorful past and potential high value should it be proven that Capone owned it.
		So she has put the boat up for sale for $15,000, which is about what she paid for it.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2006/apr/24/566650860.html (886 words)

	OOMF: Oxfordshire Heritage Boat Journeys
		The boat is a reconstruction of Queen Mary’s Royal Barge from 1689.
		The boat was rowed by members of City Barge and the City of Oxford rowing club dressed splendidly in white with red tabards and fl peaked caps.
		The boat crews were joined by local people to tell and be told stories of life on and by the water.
	www.oomf.org.uk /boatjourneys.php (2684 words)

	WCFcourier.com is the Waterloo-Cedar Falls homepage for all local news, sports, entertainment and events happening in ...
		No vote would be necessary for a boat, since Black Hawk County voters approved the idea of a gambling boat in the county Oct. 7.
		Koch says parking is in place --- about 16 acres --- and U.S. 20 at the track's front door is now four lanes all the way from Dubuque to Interstate 35 and on to Fort Dodge.
		Koch says the project could trigger a considerable amount of spin-off commercial development in the area by businesses as well as by the city.
	www.wcfcourier.com /articles/2004/07/25/news/top_news/d3b54ada5529193d86256edc0015d78e.txt (1601 words)

	CNN.com - GBR Challenge finds loophole - March 6, 2002
		The boat is not being built for the current Louis Vuitton Cup challenger elimination series that starts on October 1.
		It would be forced to buy a second training boat from another syndicate, and, as part of the Protocol, would not be allowed technical or design information about the boat.
		Harrison says the decision to build a second boat does not mean he has committed to backing the British entry in the future.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/sailing/03/06/gbr.boat.biz/index.html (535 words)

	Scarce Goods — www.greenwood.com
		The next night, half of the passengers in the larger long-boat were thrown overboard because the boat was overfull.
		This was the first case of "lifeboat ethics," of hard choices in the face of scarcity.
		Koch reexamines and reinterpretes the paradigm case of lifeboat ethics, the story of the William Brown, not as an unavoidable tragedy, but as an avoidable series of errors.
	www.greenwood.com /catalog/B7433.aspx (422 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Koch
		Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch, (1810 - 1876), mayor of Leipzig
		Charles G. Koch - Billionaire, heir and CEO of Koch Industries and co-founder of the free-market Cato Institute.
		Robert Koch - German physician, discoverer of the tubercle and cholera bacilli, Nobel Prize in Medicine laureate in 1905
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Koch (298 words)

	BoatUS.com: Boat Reviews by Jack Hornor, N.A. - Grady-White Offshore 24
		Koch also reported that the original Nomad was capable of 17 knots and had a short, five-foot-long keel that ranged from zero depth at the forward end to five inches deep at the aft end.
		Until 1995, Koch says they offered both a modified shallow keel for customers that wanted greater speed and a long deep keel for customers who were content with a 7 to 8 knot maximum speed.
		While there are many of these boats on larger bodies of water, owners must use caution to avoid the extreme conditions that these boats were never intended to handle.
	www.boatus.com /jackhornor/power/NimbleNomad24.asp (1134 words)

	Pasco: Weekend patrols keep peace on water
		Cpl. Mike Koch maneuvers his patrol craft toward the house in the afternoon sun, unsure if someone needs help or why the abandoned boat is motionless in the water.
		Five minutes before, Koch passed another stilt house in the Gulf of Mexico, where a speeding power boat hit a moored boat, went airborne and crashed into the house April 2.
		Koch, one of three members of the Port Richey Police Department's Marine Unit, is a familiar face for boaters in the Pithlachascotee River and Gulf of Mexico.
	www.sptimes.com /2006/04/17/Pasco/Weekend_patrols_keep_.shtml (842 words)

	Pictorial Gazette - Old Saybrook takes stand against pump boat
		Lyme First Selectman William Koch said the pump boat would go forward with operation this year and would service Old Saybrook boats regardless of their stance.
		Koch said the town supports the pump boat to cut down on boaters dumping their sewage directly into the Connecticut River and busy Hamburg Cove.
		Koch said the boat would be in the water by May 27, manned by three previous crew members.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=8104008&BRD=1631&PAG=461&dept_id=7931&rfi=6 (684 words)

	HAI Website > Home ::
		Greer was to locate the go-fast with the FLIR and to vector the pilots to the boat, while Koch navigated, scanning the sea with radar.
		Koch relayed information to the Diligence requesting and receiving authority to stop the go-fast.
		Koch attempted to hail the go-fast crew in English and Spanish over both the helicopter’s public address system and marine channel 16.
	www.rotor.com /Default.aspx?tabid=510&newsid905=50296& (558 words)

	Diamond Lake restrictions ease
		Resort owners along the high Cascade lake hope vacationers won't let a 10-day closure to swimming and boating taint their attitudes toward this popular summer getaway for residents of Medford, Roseburg and other locales.
		Those who do venture to the lake will find camping and RV parking space and potentially excellent sport-fishing for rainbow trout, which currently can be fished for out of a boat, Koch said.
		Koch said the lake likely will not suffer another algae bloom this year because the hot August weather seems to have dissipated.
	archive.mailtribune.com /archive/2001/august/082801n3.htm (526 words)

	Koch (boat) - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The keel length of koch was about 21.6 meters (about 70.5 feet).
		Each iceboat had the cargo capacity of 1.5 to 2.0 tons (3,300 to 4,400 lb) and was equipped with long runners (5 to 7 m/16.4 to 23 ft) for portage on ice.
		Besides the anti-icebound equipment, the captains of the kochi had the traditional set of navigation instruments including, beside some other, a sundial, a magnetic compass with floating vetromet (wooden 32-point wind-dial with 16 major winds).
	www.music.us /education/K/Koch-(boat).htm (787 words)

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