For Venus the most you can expect with an amateur telescope is to see the current phase. There will no visible surface features. For Saturn your scopes are a bit too small and low quality to see surface features, and the rings are on edge towards us these days so there's not as much...
1958. That’s when Ken Anderson and I began sailing in night races at Edgewood Yacht Club in our Beetle cat boats. The Beetle is perhaps the safest boat of all to learn how to sail. Two halyards, a main sheet, and a tiller. It is half as wide as it is long, which makes it inc...
Then I'd tie her up the way you said, and then I'd hoist up the peak-and throat-halyards again." Disko did something to the wheel that checked the schooner's way, while Manuel, with Harvey to help (and a proud boy was Harvey), let down the jib in a lump on the boom. The ...
(nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. (mathematics) A local...
A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through. Truck A freight car. Truck A frame on low wheels or rollers; - used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies. Truck A motorized vehicle larger than ...
A small wooden cap at the summit of a flagstaff or a masthead, having holes in it for reeving halyards through. Truck A freight car. Truck A frame on low wheels or rollers; - used for various purposes, as for a movable support for heavy bodies. Truck A motorized vehicle larger than ...
A wooden disc at the top of a ship's mast or flagstaff, with holes for halyards to slide through. Automobile Self-moving; self-propelled. Truck Barter. Automobile A self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of autom...
Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed. He set up his rival to take the fall. Fall (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural). Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards. Fall An old Scots unit of ...
Flagstaffs have a more specialized role, used ceremonially or for patriotic displays. 7 Poles may lack specific features other than their basic form, while flagstaffs are equipped with halyards and cleats to raise and lower flags, making them distinct in function and appearance. 10 Poles can ...
Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support a sailing ship or sail boat's masts—standing rigging, including shrouds and stays—and which adjust the position of the vessel's sails and spars to which they are attached—the running rigging, including halyards, braces,...