- In
sailing and boating, a vessel's
freeboard is the
distance from the
waterline to the
upper deck level,
measured at the
lowest point of
sheer where water...
- Look up
freeboard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Freeboard may
refer to:
Freeboard (nautical), the
height of a ship's deck
above the
water level...
- A
freeboard is a
specialist skateboard designed to
closely simulate the
behavior of a snowboard.
Freeboards were
developed to
allow snowboarders to transition...
- ship has
sufficient freeboard (the
height from the
waterline to the main deck) and thus
sufficient reserve buoyancy. The
freeboard of
commercial vessels...
-
there isn't too much snow (which is less
dense than ice) on top. Sea ice
freeboard is the
difference between the
height of the
surface of sea ice and the...
-
reported as
closely comparable to the
higher freeboard turret-ship HMS Monarch, but her
reduced freeboard added a
sense of "sluggishness". The Captain...
- to a
higher freeboard after several classes of low-
freeboard vessel had been constructed, the last
being the
Trafalgar class. Low
freeboard had been po****r...
- the
ships engaged in
international voyages. The
determinations of the
freeboard of
ships are
calculated and/or
verified by
classification societies which...
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mandatory survival suits,
depth finders,
positioning systems,
increased freeboard, and more
frequent inspection of vessels.
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance...
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created by
splitting a
dugout and
inserting a
plank bottom,
while the
freeboard was
increased for sea
voyages by
adding planks on the sides. By the 18th...
