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101Jigger mast — Jigger Jig ger, n. [See {Jig}, n. & v.] 1. One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging. [1913 Webster] 2. (Pottery) (a) A horizontal table carrying a… …
102Achill Island — Achill Native name: Acaill, Oileán Acla View of the Island using NASA s technology overhead …
103Ketch — A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: a main mast, and a shorter mizzen mast abaft (rearward) of the main mast. Both masts are rigged mainly fore and aft. From one to three jibs may be carried forward of the main mast when going to windward …
104Joshua Slocum — Infobox Person name = Joshua Slocum image size = 130px caption = Joshua Slocum birth name = 1844 02 20 birth date = birth place = Mount Hanley death date = death date and age|1909|11|14|1844|02|20 death place = death cause = Died at sea (unknown) …
105Mary Celeste — This article is about the ship. For the album, see Mary Celeste (album). An 1861 painting of the Amazon (later renamed Mary Celeste) by an unknown artist (perhaps Honoré Pellegrin)[1] …
106Dugout (boat) — A Slavic dugout boat from the 10th century A dugout or dugout canoe is a boat made from a hollowed tree trunk. Other names for this type of boat are logboat and monoxylon. Monoxylon (μονόξυλον) (pl: monoxyla) is Greek mono (single) + ξύλον xylon… …
107Harry Pidgeon — (1869 ndash; 1954), American sailor, was the second solo person to circumnavigate the world, after Joshua Slocum, and the first person to do so twice. On both trips, he sailed a 34 foot yawl named the Islander .Pidgeon was born on a farm in Iowa …
108Well smack — Sectional drawing of well smack[1] A well smack is a type of traditional fishing boat that has a well amidships. The well was filled with circulated external water, which kept fish alive until delivered to land and sold. It was a modified form of …
109John MacGregor (sportsman) — John MacGregor (1825 ndash; 1892), nicknamed Rob Roy after a renowned relative, was a Scottish explorer, travel writer and philanthropist. He is generally credited with the development of the first sailing canoes and with popularising canoeing as …
110Denys Rayner — in 1943 Denys Arthur Rayner DSC Bar, VRD, RNVR (9 February 1908 4 January 1967) fought throughout the Battle of the Atlantic. After intensive war service at sea, Rayner became a writer, a farmer, and a successful designer and builder of small… …
