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Showing 1 to 20 of 287 for “"boat"”.
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The Nature of a Wooden Boat: Boat - House - Analogy
This work seeks to explore the nature of a wooden boat and how a boat's design and construction can influence the building of a house. It is a search for a structure that bears a memory of a boat and celebrates the craft and care of which boats are built. The house is located on the north side of a …
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Its Golden Boat
This graduate thesis in creative writing focuses on memory, fear, and growing up. The speaker undergoes a coming-of-age from child to adult, his fears and desires also growing and changing. Its themes and motifs include the natural world, insects and their life cycles, horror and genre, myth, the …
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Boat preference and stress behaviour of Hector's dolphin in response to tour boat interactions
… Zealand have been observed using theodolites and boat-based observations over the last two decades, particularly on the east side of the South Island at Akaroa, which is situated on the coast line of Banks Peninsula. This research was undertaken using shore-based theodolite tracking to observe …
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A house for a boat
This thesis is the result of an exploration to develop an architectural series of modular units. It is my position that information regarding site and program are unnecessary when beginning an architectural project. This is clearly demonstrated through my process. In the beginning, these units were …
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An Urban Camp for Boat Building
At the age of eighteen, when I was approaching the end of my apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker, I made my first self designed piece of furniture. The master cabinetmaker or the client determined the form of most of the furniture made in our shop, and I seldom liked it. I did not even like the wood …
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BOGASATSWANA: redbuilding the boat while sailing
Bogasatswana: Rebuilding the Boat while Sailing, is an attempt to both transmit and disrupt a story-world whose make-up is based on my country of origin, Botswana. It is an exercise in worldbuilding through painting, wherein I establish post-colonial Botswana as a fictional place through the …
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Design and Build of a Hydrofoil Boat
… was designed and built. The hull of the boat is a skiff measuring 14 feet and 5 inches in length and weighing 142 pounds. This hull was designed and built as a platform to support the development of the hydrofoil attachments. The watercraft is powered using a 15-horsepower outboard motor, …
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Analysis of a boat alignment device and method
1 PDF file (vii, 51 pages)
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A Mathematical Model To Simulate Small Boat Behaviour
… The accuracy with which the performance of a boat under autopilot control can be predicted leaves much to be desired. The thesis provides a mathematical model to simulate small boat behaviour and so can assist with the design and testing of marine autopilots. The boat model is presented in six …
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The design and construction of a human-powered boat
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1980.
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Design of a propeller for a human-powered boat
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1987.
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Design and Construction of a Fully Submerged Hydrofoil Drone Boat
A remotely operated hydrofoil watercraft was designed and built as a test platform for active electromechanical controls as applied to fully submerged hydrofoils in a form just small and lightweight enough to be tested safely without a human physically at the controls. The goal was to build a …
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Flying boat design from a naval architect's point of view
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1924.
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Design and construction of a high-speed human-powered boat
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1982.
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The Western Australian charter boat industry: Working towards long-term sustainability
… programmes and management, yet charter boat industries have been providing a service to fee-paying recreational clients for decades and only recently have the industry become part of those monitoring and management programs. Charter boat industries exhibit characteristics of both …
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A life cycle assessment method for alternative material selection strategies in boat structures
… marine industry in the leisure, fast and fishing boats sectors. The social and economic benefits of using composite materials have made users complacent about the pollution and the health and safety issues associated with these materials. As the perception of environmental problems changes with …
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Nesting and Boat Disturbance Studies of Colonial Birds in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
… to different forms of human disturbances. Motor boat disturbance is one main example of these disturbances. The objectives of my study were to: (I) obtain baseline data on the nesting success and nest height in colonial waterbirds of the Okavango Delta, (2) evaluate the reaction of nesting target …
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