- A
nautical mile is a unit of
length used in air, marine, and
space navigation, and for the
definition of
territorial waters. Historically, it was defined...
- The knot (/nɒt/) is a unit of
speed equal to one
nautical mile per hour,
exactly 1.852 km/h (approximately 1.151 mph or 0.514 m/s). The ISO
standard symbol...
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following objects that make use of
nautical floats. A
pontoon boat is a
flattish boat that
relies on
nautical floats for buoyancy.
Common boat designs...
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consistent with a long
nautical tradition of
accurate celestial navigation.
Nautical time
divides the
globe into 24
nautical time
zones with
hourly clock...
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Nautical tourism, also
called water tourism, is
tourism that
combines sailing and
boating with
vacation and
holiday activities. It can be
travelling from...
- In some
boats and ships, a
transom is the aft
transverse surface of the hull that
forms the
stern of a vessel. Historically, they are a
development from...
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- In
nautical terms, the word
sound is used to
describe the
process of
determining the
depth of
water in a tank or
under a ship.
Tanks are
sounded to determine...
- 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...
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measured at deck
level Look up beam (
nautical) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Other meanings of 'beam' in the
nautical context are: Beam – a
timber similar...
