Sailing

Keel boats were and are used for transporting cargo, mainly inshore and on navigable rivers. They are powered barges in effect.

Generally, no. First of all, salt water dehydrates people. (The salt in the salt water pulls water out of your cells.) Second, it was very difficult to purify water prior to the mid-1800s, because it was more-or-less impossible to remove diseases and contaminants. Most people did not drink water on any regulars basis. Sailors were especially incapable of purifying their supplies of water. Most sailors drank beer and hard liquor, which tended to preserve better and remained antibacterial.

A Field Sobriety test will determine Blood Alcohol Content (BAC).

It tells you which side of the boat is facing you allowing you to pass on the right or left of the oncoming vessel.

If you see red and green (with the red on the right and the green on the left), it's a vessel heading directly towards you (although its course may be different). The white (single) light would indicate that it is a powered vessel as opposed to a sailing vessel. [rhm]

If you observe just the red light on a ship, they have the right-of-way and you are to maneuver to stay clear. In this case, both vessels should take precautions. In any case, the default maneuver is to turn starboard (to the right).

It's been done. I've been looking into stuff like this myself, and the impression I get is that smaller boats are generally designed only for daysailing because people don't buy small boats for sailing across oceans. If the boat designed for daysailing it will probably not be tough enough. Boat design is pretty complicated, so my own plan is to buy a small, cheap yacht of a type that someone else has sailed across oceans in.

In sailing terms, probably Center of Force of the sail plan. I.E. the focal point of the entire sail plan as a whole's effort.

No wind-powered boat/ship can sail directly INTO the wind, according to the laws of Physics as we know them. Forty-five degrees is about the closest possible angle.

Mast (vertical, leading edge of sail), Boom (horizontal,bottom of sail), and a spinnaker pole if you use a spinnaker which is a sail type

Nowadays mainly SWR, they are called 'stays'

the motor boat usually gives the sailboat the right of way

Steady winds became known as trade winds.

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the largest commercial sails are currently at 12.5m square in size companies such as neilpryde have their range of the rs:6 going up to this size howevere the largest custom sails are anywhere up to 15/16m square, these are not available to but though

Many builders have participated in the manufacture of Dolphin Sailboats.

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There is a device called adata-couple which is comprised of an explosive bonded steel and aluminum strips or in the form of thi plates plates which allow for the connection of steel and aluminum by welding without fear of galvanic corrosion. Isolation can also be done using a nonconductor strip of say plastic like UHMW. If you are talking about separation of aluminum and stainless steel for waste services...keep in mind that stainless in not totally nonmagnetic It just has less carbon in the molecule

Sailboats as we know them, were invented several thousand years ago by ancient humans

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Galleons and Caravels were used back then...

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Captain Cook departed England on 25 August 1768 in order to observe the transit of Venus (when the planet Venus passes directly between the Earth and the Sun). Cook reached Tahiti in April, in plenty of time for his crew and scientists to set up their instrumentation necessary to observe and report on the transit, which occurred on 3 June 1769. After observing the transit of Venus, Cook went on to search for Terra Australis Incognita, the great continent which some believed to extend round the pole. It was shortly after observing the transit of Venus that Cook came across New Zealand, which had already been discovered by Abel Tasman in 1642. He landed there on 6 October 1769. Cook claimed New Zealand for England and spent some months there, charting the coastline. Later, he set sail east for New Holland, (later having its eastern half proclaimed as New South Wales), sailing into Botany Bay on 29 April 1770.

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You would begin on Lake Superior: please see the related link below for a great picture of how much farther west it is than Lake Michigan.

This depends on the design of the boat to a certain extent, however typically when a yacht is heeling it would be moving quickly, causing the bow to raise and thus less surface area contacting the water. The majority of single hull sailing yachts would have less surface area contacting the water when heeling.

Sailing from Seattle, Washington to the island of Maui takes roughly 3 days, 20 hours. The same trip is 4 hours, 50 minutes by plane.