Find a good boat with little hull damage but a wrecked engine and a hull-smashed wreck with a sound engine.
Deuce is a stern steerer, so called because the vehicle is steered via a single pivoting skate fixed to the back end of a long central spine analogous to a boat's hull.
His father told an inquest how the 14-year-old died in his arms after he became entangled in the propeller of a rigid hull inflatable boat.
The hull of the boat looks a good deal like a boogie board, built from polyurethane.
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The former Royal Marine won international fame in 1997 when he was rescued after surviving on "sheer determination, a little water and a little chocolate" for five days in the upturned hull of his boat in the Southern Ocean during the Vendee Globe race.
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The line cut across the water to the side of the boat, then veered beneath the hull before re-emerging a minute or two later.
He was in his home in New Orleans and beside him he could hear his wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat.
Armed with a wood chisel and a hammer, Sherman spent four hours carving a hole in the bottom of the plywood-and-fiberglass hull, which was now the submerged boat's top deck and visible to any passing vessels.
Armed with a wood chisel and a hammer, Sherman spent four hours carving a hole in the bottom of the plywood-and-fiberglass hull, whch was now the submerged boat's top deck and visible to any passing vessels.
And the difference between a machine-made hull and one shaped by Saito is significant: with the right curve, a boat will glide through the sea with less resistance and burn less fuel.
The windward hull flew up into the air and hung, suspended, as the stern of the Swedish boat flashed beneath us.
We climb into a small fishing boat, and the sound of chirping crickets gives way to the splashing and gulping of the Adriatic beneath the hull.
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