This part will be replaced after the rear outrigger has been replaced. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The larger sort do not require what we may call the outrigger rowlocks. From Wordnik.com. [Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships] Reference
"One of them is associated with a waka outrigger of which there's only ever been two other finds in New Zealand," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Radio New Zealand News Headlines] Reference
Being so narrow it would have upset, but it had an outrigger, which is a plank, or log, as long as the boat, pointed at the fore end. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference
Stargel recalls he struggled to learn to ski on one leg while also using a kind of outrigger crutch with a small ski attached. From Wordnik.com. [The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines] Reference
Extremely rare waka outrigger dug up. From Wordnik.com. [Radio New Zealand News Headlines] Reference
I'll lay on you, goading you behind, you outrigger?. From Wordnik.com. [Clouds] Reference
Dalgard stowed the bow in the bottom of the outrigger. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
The drift would supply him with materials for an outrigger. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
When that outrigger smashed they were a quarter of a length ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School] Reference
Sharina wrapped her left arm around the brace of the port outrigger. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The outrigger floats are made of FRP and the beams of aluminum pipes. From Wordnik.com. [1 Boat Design, Construction, and Propulsion] Reference
All Piang's weight thrown against the upturned outrigger had no effect. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
The traditional oru is a Pacific proa-type vessel with a single outrigger. From Wordnik.com. [1 Boat Design, Construction, and Propulsion] Reference
Sharina leaped onto the port outrigger and wrapped both arms around the mast stay. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The single outrigger didn't support you if you let your weight shift to the wrong side. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Many of them were poised on the outrigger that carried the topmost of the three oarbanks. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The Fairmont Kea Lani in Maui has a Santa who arrives to greet guests via an outrigger canoe. From Wordnik.com. [Where Santa Comes] Reference
But for an outrigger, it was impossible to keep such a long, narrow thing steady in the water. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
The framework of the outrigger, close to completion the night before, was dismantled -- smashed. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The outrigger is filled with foam and helps support the weight of two or three persons in the canoe. From Wordnik.com. [1 Boat Design, Construction, and Propulsion] Reference
` Vaa Motu, 'or single canoe, furnished with a great outrigger, and manned by a crew of nine natives. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
They beached the outrigger and hid it in the shell of one of the ruined buildings on the lowest level. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
He could remember nothing of his departure in the outrigger, the way he had fought Shann in the lagoon. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
And he almost made it, his hand actually slipping along the log which furnished the balancing outrigger. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Safely ashore on the narrow city beach, he abandoned the outrigger to the vagaries of the harbor currents. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Places]
And boys, believe me, that outrigger was away up opposite our stem, far out of reach of our oars, end on end. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Crew or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School] Reference
A plywood single outrigger canoe was designed by FAO in 1985 specifically for the waters of Papua New Guinea. From Wordnik.com. [1 Boat Design, Construction, and Propulsion] Reference
Outside on the lake was an outrigger canoe of full size, such as is still in use among the fishermen of Ceylon. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
Wahgi landed hard in an open outrigger, twisting his ankle and hitting his jaw on the side of the narrow craft. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Places]
Not content with this, he disengaged the outrigger, and threw it, together with the mast and sail, into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
Resort personnel said the men who arrived in an outrigger canoe spoke paosug (ph), a language used by the Muslims. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 27, 2001] Reference
The outrigger may be described, in any boat, by laying oars across at equal distances, say one right above a thwart. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
The beaches in Hawaii -- well, of course, the most famous being Waikiki Beach with the outrigger canoes, the surfers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2002] Reference
"My catch is better now," he says as he dangles a hand line over the side of his outrigger boat, some 20 kilometers offshore. From Wordnik.com. [Saving The Coral Reefs] Reference
One was missing, knocked out when he had hit the side of the outrigger, and blood was trickling over his lip and down his chin. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Places]
The smaller craft, made of hollow tree-trunks, have the double outrigger, and the finer ones have shelters of bamboo and palm-leaf. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Latterly they seldom built anything larger than a single canoe, with an outrigger, which might carry from fifteen to twenty people. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
But it could provide them with transportation to the mainland if Shann was able to repeat the feat of turning it into an outrigger canoe. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Newly outfitted with a surer vessel, we continued our journey on the placid waters of Lake Kivu -- admiring the outrigger fishing canoes. From Wordnik.com. [Catholic Relief Services: Wading Through the Remnants of a War-Torn Country] Reference
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