Reef points


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pieces of small rope passing through the eyelet holes of a reef-band, and used reefing the sail.
- Totten.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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This necessitated frequent tacks, so that, overhead, the mainsail was ever swooping across from port tack to starboard tack and back again, making air- noises like the swish of wings, sharply rat-tat-tatting its reef points and loudly crashing its mainsheet gear along the traveller.
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Hopping smaller swimbaits along the bottom appeals to the sizeable flounder that lay in the sand spits between reef points, while slowly retrieving a 6-inch D.O.A.
Gulf Coast trap time: crab buoys lead anglers to the right spots
Reef points: A horizontal line of ropes on the sail, tied to the boom to reduce sail area during heavy winds.
Sailing delights of the 'cheese pit' and 'heads' Daily Post reporter Graham Davies, who is to compete in the last leg of the Round the World Yacht Race, has completed a nine-day training course with Clipper Ventures in Gosport, along with other novices who put their names down for the race. Here, in the first part of his diary, he tells of the obstacles he had to overcome
Allozyme variation within and among reefs on the Great Barrier Reef points to modest amounts of gene-flow in s pawning corals (Ayre and Hughes 2000) that approach the levels for fishes and other organisms with longer larval durations (e.g., Benzie 1994, Doherty et al.
SUPPLY-SIDE ECOLOGY WORKS BOTH WAYS: THE LINK BETWEEN BENTHIC ADULTS, FECUNDITY, AND LARVAL RECRUITS

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