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oakum
Oiled plant fibre used to seal joints or
fill crevices in wooden boat hulls and decks.
CL tools and equipment
BT caulking equipment
RT shearing
oar
Long slender shafts, usually wood, shaped
to a round handle or grip at one end and flat-tipped blade at the other; for
propelling vessels.
CL tools and equipment
CL components
BT boat equipment
BT human powered propulsion system component
BT motive power producing equipment
NT chopper (oar)
NT macon
NT pencil (oar)
NT scull
NT smoothie
NT sweep (oar)
RT crutches
NT thole pin
oar propelled boat
A boat that is designed to
be propelled by the use of oars.
CL transport
BT <craft by propulsion>
octuple
Racing shell rigged for eight scullers
with cox.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
oil box
A block of wood measuring about 7 x 3
x3 inches, with a short handle fixed at one end. The centre of the block is
hollowed out and filled with linseed oil. Used for dipping caulking irons to
prevent them from becoming sticky from contact with oakum and so sticking in the
seams.
CL tools and equipment
BT caulking equipment
one hundred and forty ton barge
A one hundred
and forty ton barge carried by a BACAT ship.
one hundred and seventy ton compartment boat
Pans in trains of three pushed by tugs to Ferrybridge Power Station. 56ft x 17ft
3in x 9ft 6in they carry up to one hundred and seventy tons. Lifted out of the
water to unload.
CL transport
BT <craft by context>
open boat
Boat with little or no decking.
CL transport
BT <craft by accommodation>
RT Birmingham day boat
open day boat
A boat with no cabin.
UF day boat
CL transport
BT <craft by accommodation>
NT Potteries day boat
RT Birmingham day boat
open moulded trow
The basic form of trow with
an open cargo space soemtimes protected by vertical canvas sidecloths hanging
from wooden rails. They did not normally trade beyond Bridgwater or Cardiff.
CL transport
BT <trow by hull type>
outrigger
A metal framework or carbon-fibre
reinforced arm to support crutches which is placed approximately 30 inches from
the centre of the boat.
CL components
BT human powered propulsion system component
RT crutches
outrigger pair
Oars supported by full
outriggers of drawn steel, so that the rowlocks were some distance from the
sides of the boat, was either of clinker build or a shell. It was 30-34 feet
long, with a beam of 14-16 inches and depth of 7-8 inches.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
outrigger scull
Propelled by a person using two
sculls or short oars, one in each hand. Outrigger sculls were 25-30 feet long,
with a 10-13 inch beam and 5.5-6 inches deep.
CL transport
BT competitive craft
BT human powered boat
outside flat
Sailing flats built for coastal
use. They ranged from 50 to 75 feet in length and had a capacity from 80 to 150
tons.
CL transport
BT Mersey sailing flat
NT jigger flat
outside puffer
Generally 66ft x 18ft 6 inches,
carrying up to 120 tons with a maximum draught of 9ft 6 inches.They usually had
bulwarks around the deck. In line with the gauge of the Crinan Canal and the
bridges of the Forth and Clyde. Maximum size was 85ft to make full use of the
Crinan Canal locks. Boats also used in Outer Hebrides and Ireland.
UF coaster
CL transport
BT Scottish barge
RT shorehead puffer
oxter plate
The lower plates of a counter
stern.
UF uxter plate
CL components
BT below decks watercraft component
oyster skiff
A large clinker-built boat seen on
Essex rivers and estuaries. It was used mainly in the oyster fisheries. It was
frequently pointed at both ends or double-ended and might step a short mast, to
be used either for rowing or sailing.
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