Houseboats

that is where the water level is when the boat is in the water.

on the top of the sides

On the tongue of the trailer, just behind the ball hitch is where it is located on my 32 footer. I don't recall where it was on my 23 or 25 footers. There are two excellent groups that can help you...

I am not allowed to put my last name or email on this Wiki answer, but you can locate me and more info. on these groups.

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Greg

In Northern California

proceed at slow no wake speed

captain

A boat driver.. if you have a small boat you are obvously not a "captain"

in the sitcom "Giligan's Island" the "boat driver" was the skipper

app weight of a 24 foot bennington pontoon boat with a 60 horse 4 stroke mercury

The overtaken vessel is ALWAYS the "stand-on" vessel, ALWAYS! Please refer to Rule 13 of the International Rules of the Road, AKA 72 COLREGS.

maintain course and speed

LCI (landing craft infantry)

LCT (Landing craft tank)

When you "push" your body out of the boat you also push the boat away from the dock.

The law simply put is: "For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction"

The short answer is... Divers with lift bags... attach them to the boat, and slowly, and carefully (with emphsis on the slowly and carefully), inflate these bags till the boat breaks free from the bottom, and comes on up. Depending on water depth the bags will expand quite a bit, so even though a big bag at each corner may lift it, if it is deep, then several big bags with less air in them are used so that they don't over inflate as they rise, but still have the lifting power to get the boat to the surface. Once on the surface different bags which have completely closed valves are normally strapped to the vessel and it is slowly towed to a barge or crane, or in some cases a launch ramp if you can get the trailer in deep enough to recover it. No, I don't do this work, but there are plenty of folks who do in the marine salvage business. I must stress again, Kids and adults alike, "don't try this at home" alot of people die every hear in diving accidents, some of which are when something they are attempting to recover gets away from em and either tips, tilts, drops on em, or does a runaway accent to the surface dragging them with it, and giving them a Pressure injury.

maintaining a safe speed based on other boat traffic

Newtons 3rd law. Every action has and equal and opposite reaction. The energy you apply with your legs that moves you out of the boat and on to the dock, pushes back on the boat with an equal force.

No it's not the Hull is the outside of the boat that contacts the water I believe the floor is called the sole.

What is the weight and dimentions of a 26 ft. Boat

Frankly, no one knows for sure. There is evidence that the Aborigines of Australia may have originated in Indonesia some 50,000 years ago. To travel to Australia from Indonesia, they would have needed some sort of boat as no land bridge has ever existed there. Additionally, there is evidence of human habitation (settlements) in the southern US and South America that predates the Clovis people (the first commonly accepted settlers in North America, who most assume walked over the land bridge at the Bering Straits between the last major ice age and the resurgence of ocean waters. Some of these settlements may date as far back as 70,000 years before now. Travel to South America in particular would have been nearly impossible except by boat or some sort of floating conveyance.

Also, we would need to agree on the definition of a 'boat.' Many would include any unsophisticated raft of logs or even a single log. I would include any floating object that can carry a human or some useful cargo. If that is the case, then it may be much older.

A museum in Cadiz, Spain has stone ax heads on display, that are clearly man-made. They could not be randomly broken rock. The oldest one that I recall was 500,000 years old. The art of making such things may seem very simple and crude if you have never done it before. However, if you try it, you find that it requires a surprisingly high degree of sophistication. A mind that could create an ax head of the quality on display, 500,000 years ago, seems very likely to be analytical enough to see a log floating in the water, or a mass of floating reeds, and decide to climb aboard, thereby inventing the first boat.

Archeologists have compelling evidence that ancient peoples certainly used stone tools on the island of Crete 130,000 BCE. They could have only arrived by boat. So, very serviceable boats are at least that old.

Therefore, as the beginning of this article says, 'no one knows for sure.' But it is very likely that they are much older than we can imagine.

Well, wood is lighter than water, so it floats, but that has very little to do with why a boat floats. You could make a boat out of just about any material that was rigid enough to hold its shape, and strong enough to not crack under the pressure a boat is subjected to, and, if built to the correct dimensions, it would float. A boat floats because the volume of water it displaces when placed in water has a higher weight than the weight of the boat and everything in it. When you put a boat in the water, it "displaces" (pushes aside) a volume of water equal to the volume of the boat up to the waterline. How much water is displaced depends on how heavy the boat and its contents are. As long as that weight is not greater than the volume of water the boat displaces, the boat will float. But remember, as you place more weight in the boat, it sinks lower in the water, therefore displacing more water, so the weight of water being dispaced is increasing too, though not as fast as the weight of the boat. Eventually, if you keep adding weight to the boat, the boat will weigh more than the water it displaces, and the top of the boat will sink below the water. At that point, water will get inside the boat and quickly add more weight to the boat, causing it to sink rapidly. Another way of looking at it. A boat floats by spreading out the weight of its contents over a larger volume than they would normally occupy, thereby lowering the density of the boat and its contents. This would not work if the boat was a flat piece of wood. The wood itself would float, but you couldn't put much weight on it before it sank. However, if you took that same piece of wood and built a structure (a box with the top side open is the simplest) that had a hollow volume that was prevented from being filled with water, the inclusion of that hollow volume increases volume without increasing weight, which means the density decreases. Ultimately, when you place any object in water, whether it floats or not depends on its density. Adding passengers or other dense objects to the inside of the boat will increase its weight (it will also increase the volume of the boat, if the objects are not fully contained within the volume below the top of the boat, but volume does not increase as much as weight does, so density increases.) At the point where the density of the boat and its contents exceeds the density of the water, the boat will sink. However, some time before that point, the density of the boat will be high enough to push it down in the water enough for water to start spilling over the sides, which will rapidly increase the weight of the boat, with no increase in volume, resulting in a rapid increase in density, causing the boat to sink like a rock. So, if you're looking at in terms of density rather than displacement, you need to assume that objects placed inside the boat, even if they do not fit in the original volume of the boat, do not increase the volume of the boat used in your calculations. In other words, assume that all objects fit neatly inside the original volume of the boat without increasing its volume. So that, when you are computing the density of the boat and its contents, the volume in the denominator remains constant at the original volume of the boat alone.

I am lead to believe that white powder spots are a sign of rust on Aluminum hulls.

Eyelets, cleats and oarlocks all are fittings made fast to the gunwales.

According to the laws of Physics as we currently know them, it is not possible to sail any closer to the wind than 45 degrees. That leaves a 90 degree window altogether. If indeed, "East" is 90 degrees on your compass (like all the rest in our world), you will not be able to sail toward the wind, from 45 degrees to 135 degrees on your compass. All other courses are available.

Point of order, though: Technically speaking, a sail is a vertical wing & the wind flows around the sail, foiling, and actually PULLS boat along. This makes for a great trick question; "Does the wind push or pull a boat?".

They weren't invented they were a gift from aliens, since they stay fresh forever. Actually in 1933 Twinkies were introduced by The Continental Baking Company in Indianapolis, which also made "Wonder Bread" and had a snack line your probably familiar with called Hostess. One of their bakers named James A. Dewar got the idea for the "Twinkie" while he delivered one of their products, a cream filled strawberry shortcake. The machines to make these sat idle when the strawberry season was over so he came up with an idea to use them to make a snack cake filled with a banana filling, and only charge a nickel for a package of 2. It was good idea as money was tight for people during the great depression.
Dewar came up with this name when driving by a billboard that had an ad for shoes from the "Twinkle Toe Shoe Company". He shortened the name to ....Twinkies. Just like the song went "Yes We Have No Banana's " popular during the WWII because bananas were rationed, Hostess had to come up with a different filling. They switched to vanilla creme and it was popular so they never changed back.

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Try a boat yard.