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Precision Boat Works
Precision Boat Works, Inc. is an American boat builder, initially based in Palmetto, Florida and now in Sarasota, Florida. From 1978 until 2018, the company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats, but today just produces parts for their existing fleet.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', pages 54, 55, 122 and 245. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. The company was founded by brothers Richard and Bill Porter in 1978. History The first design produced was the Uffa Fox and George O'Day-designed Day Sailer, as well as the Seaforth 24. Many of the company's boats were designed by naval architect Jim Taylor of Marblehead, Massachusetts, a designer known for his America's Cup competition boats. By 2018 the company was producing six designs, the Precision 15, Precision 165, 165, Precision 18, 18, Precision 185, 185, Precision 21, 21 and the Precision 23, 23. After a production run of nearly 5,000 boats, the Porters decide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Marblehead is a coastal New England town in Essex County, Massachusetts, along the North Shore (Massachusetts), North Shore. Its population was 20,441 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The town lies on a small peninsula that extends into the northern part of Massachusetts Bay. Attached to the town is a near island, known as Marblehead Neck, connected to the mainland by a narrow isthmus. Marblehead Harbor, protected by shallow shoals and rocks from the open sea, lies between the mainland and the Neck. Beside the Marblehead town center, two other villages lie within the town: the Old Town, which was the original town center, and Clifton, which lies along the border with the neighboring town of Swampscott, Massachusetts, Swampscott. A town with roots in commercial fishing and yachting, Marblehead was a major shipyard and is often referred to as the birthplace of the United States Navy, American Navy, a title sometimes disputed with nearby Beverly, Massachusetts, Beve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precision 16
The Precision 16 is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Stephen Seaton and first built in 1982.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 74-75. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Production The design was built by Precision Boat Works in Palmetto, Florida, United States, starting in 1982, but it is now out of production. A total of 64 examples of the type were reported as having been completed by 1994. Design The Precision 16 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars. The double hull has a raked stem, a plumb transom and a retractable centerboard. The a transom-hung, kick-up rudder has an aluminum head that is controlled by a tiller. Both the rudder and centerboard are made from foam-cored fiberglass. The boat is open and has no foredeck, although it has two stowage compartments. It displaces and is equipped with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precision 14
The Precision 14 is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Stephen Seaton as a day sailer and first built in 1985. Production The design was built by Precision Boat Works in Palmetto, Florida, United States, starting in 1985, but it is now out of production. Design The Precision 14 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig; a raked stem; a plumb transom; a transom-hung, kick-up rudder controlled by a tiller, with a hiking stick and a retractable centerboard. It displaces . The boat has a draft of with the centerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer. See also *List of sailing boat types The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies and multihull ( catamarans and trimarans). Olympic classes World Sailing Classes Historically known as the IYRU ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precision 13
The Precision 13 is an American single-handed sailing dinghy that was designed by Stephen Seaton as a racer and first built in 1985. Production The design was built by Precision Boat Works in Palmetto, Florida, United States, starting in 1985, but it is now out of production. Design The Precision 13 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with aluminum spars. It has a catboat rig, a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable daggerboard. It displaces . The boat has a draft of with the daggerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car rooftop. See also *List of sailing boat types Similar sailboats * Laser (dinghy) The Laser is a class of Single-handed sailing, single-handed, one-design dinghy sailing, sailing dinghies using a common hull design with three interchangeable rigs of different sail areas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Precision, precise or precisely may refer to: Science, and technology, and mathematics Mathematics and computing (general) * Accuracy and precision, measurement deviation from true value and its scatter * Significant figures, the number of digits that carry real information about a measurement * Precision and recall, in information retrieval: the proportion of relevant documents returned * Precision (computer science), a measure of the detail in which a quantity is expressed * Precision (statistics), a model parameter or a quantification of precision Computing products * Dell Precision, a line of Dell workstations * Precision Architecture, former name for PA-RISC, a reduced instruction set architecture developed by Hewlett-Packard * Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin", Canonical's sixteenth release of Ubuntu Companies * Precision Air, an airline based in Tanzania * Precision Castparts Corp., a casting company based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States * Precision Dri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Daily or The Daily may refer to: Journalism * Daily newspaper, newspaper issued on five to seven day of most weeks * ''The Daily'' (podcast), a podcast by ''The New York Times'' * ''The Daily'' (News Corporation), a defunct US-based iPad newspaper from News Corporation * '' The Daily of the University of Washington'', a student newspaper using ''The Daily'' as its standardhead Places * Daily, North Dakota, United States * Daily Township, Dixon County, Nebraska, United States People * Bill Daily (1927–2018), American actor * Elizabeth Daily (born 1961), American voice actress * Joseph E. Daily (1888–1965), American jurist * Thomas Vose Daily (1927–2017), American Roman Catholic bishop Other usages * Iveco Daily, a large van produced by Iveco * Dailies In filmmaking, dailies are the raw, unedited footage shot during the making of a motion picture. The term comes from when movies were all shot on film because usually at the end of each day, the footage was d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boom Vang
A boom vang (US) or kicking strap (UK) (often shortened to "vang" or "kicker") is a line or piston system on a sailboat used to exert downward force on the boom and thus control the shape of the sail. The Collins English Dictionary defines it as "A rope or tackle extended from the boom of a fore-and-aft mainsail to a deck fitting of a vessel when running, in order to keep the boom from riding up". The vang typically runs from the base of the mast to the boom. Due to the great force necessary to change the height of the boom while a boat is under sail, a line-based boom vang usually includes some sort of a pulley system. Hydraulic piston vangs are used on larger sailboats and controlled by manual or electric hydraulic pumps. By controlling leech tension, the boom vang is one way of controlling sail twist. The boom vang may also be used to flatten the mainsail on dinghies. On small sailboats and some cruising sailboats a vang may be omitted. If a vang is not installed, then th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precision 23
The Precision 23 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Jim Taylor.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 245. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. Production The boat was first built by Precision Boat Works in the United States in 1986 and remained in production until 2018. Over 500 examples were completed. Design The Precision 23 is a small recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with teak wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, a transom-hung rudder and a fixed stub keel with a retractable centerboard that is raised and lowered by a Dacron line, plus a "kick-up" rudder. It displaces and carries of lead ballast. The cockpit is long. The boat is constructed using a hand-laid fiberglassing method and sleeps four adults. The galley includes a stainless steel sink, an alcohol-fired stove and a self-contained fresh water system, with a manual pump. A Igloo Coolers ice chest with a teak wood step i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precision 21
The Precision 21 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Jim Taylor as a cruiser and first built in 1986.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 122. International Marine/ McGraw-Hill, 2010. Production The design was built by Precision Boat Works in Palmetto, Florida, United States from 1986 until 2018, but it is now out of production. Design The Precision 21 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed stub keel with a retractable centerboard that has a NACA airfoil profile. It displaces and carries of ballast. The boat has a draft of with the centerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, or ground transportation on a trailer. The boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering. The design h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precision 185
The Precision 185, also called the Precision 185K (for keel), is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Jim Taylor as a day sailer and first built in 2001. There is also a centerboard sailing dinghy derivative of the design, the Precision 185 CB, which was named ''Sailing World's'' 2003 ''Boat of the Year''. Production The design was built by Precision Boat Works in Palmetto, Florida, United States, between 2001 and 2018, but it is now out of production. Design The Precision 185 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, an open plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel. It displaces and carries of ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel. The design has a hull speed of . See also *List of sailing boat types The following is a partial list of sailboat types and sailing classes, including keelboats, dinghies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Precision 18
The Precision 18 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Jim Taylor as a cruiser and first built in 1984.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 55. International Marine/ McGraw-Hill, 2010. Production The design was built by Precision Boat Works in Palmetto, Florida, United States from 1984 until 2018, with 500 boats completed. Design The Precision 18 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung, kick-up rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed stub keel, with a NACA airfoil fiberglass centerboard that retracts into the keel. It displaces and carries of lead ballast. Early boats produced have a single non-opening port on each cabin side, whereas later production models have two opening ports per side. The boat has a draft of with the centerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
