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...“This was the first time I had done something for the yacht circuit, but I was attracted to this incredible sailboat for its aesthetics – the lines, the muted interior and bold black hull and sails,” he...
...Buried in the hull of one of them is another key member of the J Craft team and Gotland native, Zoltan Antunovic....
...King wakes up from a nap towards the end of his journey near the Portuguese coast to see the towering hull of a huge container ship that has narrowly missed him — an experience more common than non-sailors...
...Sea trials of the Liaoning and the Shandong took more than a year before they began operations with China’s carrier-borne J-15 fighters in earnest....
...In the former, the letter “J” looks more like a hook, repeated until it fades away; in the latter, the terse arrows and bright primary colours suggest transformation, as in a chemical reaction....
...The Liaoning, the first carrier, is a refurbished hull bought from Ukraine and the Shandong was built in China but based on its blueprint....
...While some pilots attached floats to 1930s and ’40s Piper Cubs, creating “floatplanes”, manufacturers created “flying boats” that float on their hulls, some with retractable wheels for terra-firma movements...
...Built in Oundle, it was styled in Monaco by the Italian yacht designer Alberto Mancini, with naval architecture courtesy of the redoubtable J&J Design from Ljubljana....
...crossword: Mark Thornber, Durham, England; Andrew House, San Francisco; Jane Robinson, London Polymath 1,053: Martyn Haley, Conwy, Wales Crossword 16,350: PJ Morsan, Winchester, England; Andrew Palfreman, Hull...
...On our first evening, just east of Old Forge, Rob, from the stern, had suggested we could reach hull speed with longer, gentler strokes....
...Robert J Elliott Chairman, WindShip Technology, London EC2, UK...
...The central theme, according the author’s note by Martin Goodman, professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull, is “music and the Holocaust . . . alongside the question of how senior Nazis might...
...The boat has an aluminium hull and a teak deck, and has accommodation for six guests in three cabins. Why Hanuman is a J-Class yacht, based on the single-masted sailboats that raced in the 1930s....
...Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, September 26-January 7, tate.org.uk...
...The nine new listings — celebrating Hull’s heritage during the year of Hull UK City of Culture — include the homes of poet and university librarian Philip Larkin and J Arthur Rank, the British film industry...
...Further adjustments can be made to the cant or lateral angle of the foil The boats lift their twin hulls out of the water using foils and daggerboards, bladelike J- or L-shaped carbon fibre boards which...
...The 311m carrier, with an upward-sloping “ski jump” deck, is slightly larger than the Liaoning, China’s first carrier, which was made from a former Soviet hull bought from Ukraine in 1998....
...The Liaoning, which is made from an old Soviet aircraft carrier hull, is seen by western analysts as being of limited combat value and more of a training ship....
...Victoria Mill, Grimsby, Lincolnshire (1889 and 1906, Sir William Gelder of Hull) The redevelopment of this former flour mill, warehouse and office complex has run into difficulties....
...Who Edmiston, edmiston.com, tel: +44 20 7495 5151 Endeavour, Spain, €17.5m Spec An original J Class sailing yacht dating from 1934, rebuilt by Royal Huisman Shipyard in 1989....
...China’s first carrier, the Liaoning, was originally a Soviet vessel whose hull was towed to China. The Liaoning, which operates out of Qingdao, was formally commissioned in 2012....
...Peter De Wint’s “Sketch of a Tree and Hull of a Boat at Mooring” is so fluid and simplified that it calls to mind Chinese landscapes....
...A big search effort was mounted after the upturned hull of the Cypriot-registered Cemfjord cement carrier was spotted in the Pentland Firth, north Scotland, on Saturday....
...Built with an aluminium fast-displacement hull, Galactica Star delivered a top speed of almost 29 knots during recent sea trials....
...Both exercises were described by the Chinese military as routine training but were timed to coincide with V-J Day, marking the Japanese surrender to the Allies 68 years ago that ended its brutal occupation...
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