Sailing

The Spirit of Australia was the vessel in which the current water speed record was set, making it the fastest boat ever.

In the Eastern Pacific, from Point Conception to the Mexican border, February through October is usually quite pleasant, weather permitting.

Generally speaking wind is not the only ingredient in a full capsize, a boat may be heeled over perhaps to a point where the mast may almost touch the water, at this point the force of right moment in the weight of the keel takes over to keep it from capsizing, also as the mast goes farther over the wind begins to spill off the top of the mast, reducing the forces on the mast and tendancy for a complete capsize. Large waves, especially breaking waves will have more of an effect on flipping a keeled sailboat that perhaps becoming beam or sideways to the waves .

A barque a sailing ship, typically with three masts, in which the foremast and mainmast are square-rigged and the mizzenmast is rigged fore-and-aft.

Shanghai itself is a city in China. At one time, sailors were kidnapped & used as slave labor on ships bound for Shanghai.

A mast, a spar, the yardarm, and the boom, as well as struts and stays all support the sails.

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A rowing oar is made up of several parts. You have the handle, which could be wood (I prefer the grip of this), plastic or rubber. This is for either one or two hands depending on whether it's a sweep blade or a scull blade.

The shaft is usually hollow carbon fibre or some other light materiel, approximately four inches in diameter at the collar (the fitting which allows it to stay still in the gate).

The blade, or the spoon, is of many different shapes. The three basic shapes are the modern hatchet (asymmetric, like a chef's cleaver), old macon (pronounced soft c, classic oar shape) and older pencil (long and thin). They may or may not have a spine running along the spoon in line with the shaft, and they may or may not have hydrodynamic modifications on the end of the spoon to obtain better grip.

The hatchet shape stems from a desire for increased connection and lower slippage. Since the spoon is not moving straight but in an arc, the outer end moves at a different speed to the inner causing slip. The shorter and deeper a blade is the less this occurs.

I don't know the captain but the famous person on it was Charles Darwin

You might be thinking about the sailing vessel known as a "clipper", a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts and a square rig.

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It would have made the trip easier if they sailed along the wind belts to the north

A boom is used to hold the foot, or bottom of the sail. It is attached to the mast, in various ways. It is simply a pole that stretches out the bottom of the sail to obtain better performance.

The wind bows on it pushing it forward or any direction the boat is facing

By sailing due East for a distance of 245 nautical miles, a ship alters her longitude by 7?25'. Find Latitude of the ship.

Touted as the shipwreck that changed the world, the Spanish brig of war El Cazador was loaded with about 450,000 Spanish reales (silver coins) at Veracruz, Mexico, and sailed for New Orleans, Louisiana on January 11, 1784. She never made it. In June of that year, she was officially declared to be missing at sea.

My step-grandfather was a fisherman in Fl. Hhe had a small plaque with this expression on his boat. It's etched in my mind.

To sail along a meridian, one must sail true north or true south. Meridians of longitude run N/S.

This is a great question. Many people believe you need a large vessel to sail the oceans, as a bigger boat is a safer boat. This isn't really true. Many sailors have circumnavigated the globe in small sailboats. Robin Knox-Johnston did it in a 32 foot ketch in 1968, back before GPS, EPIRB's and satellite telephones existed. Of course he was by himself. Singlehanded circumnavigations are clearly for those who are intrepid, experienced and don't mind spending the better part of a year all by their lonesome.

Most people will want a crew of at least three other people if not more and that requires a larger boat, especially to make the trip in comfort. More important, vastly more important than the length of the boat is the quality of the build. It must be a boat with an Ocean A rating. This means it can go offshore for an extended period and hold up to winds greater than Force 8 on the Beaufort Scale.

The other key factor is tank capacities and storage space. You need to carry lots of food, fresh water and supplies and you need to carry a lot of fuel so that when you wind up in irons you can start the motor, instead of winding up adrift in the middle of an ocean.

It is also a commonly held belief that heavier displacement boats fare better in rough seas. It's actually the opposite. Lighter displacement boats don't bottom out as hard when they're riding down waves so they actually tend to handle better in choppy water. Also lighter displacement means faster and that allows you to use the approach "A fast passage is a safe passage". The less time you are out there exposed to the weather, the safer you will be. Of course that's where the large boat really comes in handy; for the gain in speed you get from the longer waterline.

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Triangular-shaped sails helped catch wind from the sides and rear.

If you actually mean, what is the left hand side of the ship called... It is the port side. It has mostly the same things as the right side of the ship (called the starboard).

It depends on the type of boat. A rowing boat is balanced by the broad surface under the water, which gives it stability. A yacht is balanced by the keel which counterbalances the force of the wind on the sails.