Essays about: "Sailors"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the word Sailors.

  1. 1. Self-locking Brake used in Reversible Sailboat Winches : Development of a self-locking braking system that will be used to allow sailboat winches to reverse

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Lukas Andersson; [2022]
    Keywords : Sailing; Sailboat; Sailboat Winch; Reversible Winch; Winch Brake; Brake; Disk Brake; Cone Brake; Wet Brake; Brake Calculation; Seldén; Seldén Mast; One Way Clutch; One Way Bearing; Over running Roller Clutch; Electric Winch; Electric Sailboat Winch; E40i; Self Locking Brake;

    Abstract : Sailboat winches are used to help sailors manipulate the control lines that control the position and shape of the sails. Unlike most winches sailboat winches usually only have the ability to winch in the rope, but not to reverse. To reverse the line a sailor needs to manually manipulate it, this is both inconvenient and can also be a safety hazard. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Discipline of the Seas: Piracy and Polity in England, 1688-1698

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Johan Berglund Björk; [2020-10-29]
    Keywords : Piracy; Henry Every; Matthew Tindall; Philip Meadows; subjecthood; sovereignty; jurisdiction;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of the changing legal and political climate surrounding piracy in England in the years 1688-1698, between the Glorious Revolution and the passing in parliament of the Piracy Act 1698. During this time views of piracy changed in London where pirates were no longer seen as beneficial, but instead as obstacles to orderly trade. READ MORE

  4. 3. 'Friend, Servant, Creature' : The Mutual Creation of Human and Animal Identities in Matthew Flinders’ Narrative of his Cat, Trim, c. 1800

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Alexander Mullan; [2020]
    Keywords : Flinders; Trim; Microhistory; Animal History; Masculinity; Postcolonialism;

    Abstract : Inspired by the approach of the Italian microhistories, this paper explores A Biographical Tribute to the Memory of Trim – Matthew Flinders’ story of his cat – to investigate what the text reveals about humanity and animality. From the clues Flinders left behind, it seeks to piece together a picture of the co-creation of human and animal identity through the relationship between cat and crew. READ MORE

  5. 4. DER BLÅSER HAN! (There he blows!) : On sailors, whales, and relationships based on not-knowing

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Guadalupe Canale; [2020]
    Keywords : Ontology; Opacity; Anthropomorphism; Technology; Kinship; Maritime anthropology; Multispecies ethnography; Environmental Humanities;

    Abstract : In a town in northern Norway, the sailors on whale-watching boats meet whales in their daily work. Many have up to 30 years’ experience in locating the whales, through sight or submerged microphones, and in positioning the boats in non-intrusive ways that respect the whales’ life in the open water. READ MORE

  6. 5. Gösta Adrian-Nilsson i den Europeiska modernismens kraftfält. Åren 1913-1921

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Robert Thavenius; [2018]
    Keywords : Modern society; Modernism; Futurism; Expressionism; Cubism; Spiritual thinking; Sailors; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The essay entitled Gösta Adrian-Nilsson in the European Modernistic Power Field. 1913 – 1921, takes its starting point in the city of Berlin in 1912 when Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN) meets the elite of the modern art world for the first time. READ MORE