Its thickness is never less than that of the adjoining bottom plating. Strakes of bottom plating to the bilges have their greatest thickness over 40 per cent of the ship's length amidships, where the ...
Hunched over handlebars in the pod behind, sweat dripping into the bilges, a "power sailor" is pedaling furiously to pump the oil needed for the hydraulics used to trim the wing-like sails.