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scow

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The narrator goes walking around the docks at night, where he overhears a radio on the deck of a garbage scow. en.wikipedia.org

Contrary to the connotations of the old definition of scow (large and slow), the inland lake scows are extremely fastthe wide, flat bottom hull allows them to plane easily. en.wikipedia.org

Consisting usually of a single plank for each side, with a square bow and stern, the punt was in essence a tiny scow. en.wikipedia.org

This boat was said to be beginning of the speedy scow design that skimmed over the water. en.wikipedia.org

A scow was adapted for use as a cable ferry, with the intention that this ferry would operate for a five-year period. en.wikipedia.org

The stern is squared but inclined in the manner of a scow. en.wikipedia.org

Scow schooners had a broad, shallow hull, and used centreboards, bilgeboards or leeboards rather than a deep keel. en.wikipedia.org

One scow was put on the beach and became the messhouse with worker quarters in the upper section. en.wikipedia.org

This method of construction originated with the sailing scow and continues to be used today, primarily in home built boats. en.wikipedia.org

While principally designed as sailing vessels, scow schooners could also be hauled from the bank or poled in the shallows of the delta. en.wikipedia.org

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