Auswasserung
English translation: slipping
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| 15:53 May 2, 2013 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Ships, Sailing, Maritime | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Edwin Miles Germany Local time: 17:29 | ||||||
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| 3 +1 | slipping |
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| 3 | docking |
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| 2 | landing |
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| 2 | dry-docking |
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2 hrs confidence: 
landing Explanation: (although not necessarily a right to land a boat or launch one) http://www.naturenet.net/law/rivers.html If you try to land a boat that is swinging, you may end up damaging the hull. http://www.ehow.com/how_8021576_lift-boat-single-point.html#... |
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2 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1slipping Explanation: I'm pretty sure (more a childhood memory) that this is called "slipping" a boat. Google comes up with some promising results. |
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18 hrs confidence:
dry-docking Explanation: My guess based on this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYbqYl02KlU |
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21 mins confidence:
docking Explanation: re-docking to pull a ship ashore http://www.schwaebische.de/journal/vermischtes/fotoreportage... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drydock -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 uren (2013-05-03 14:23:20 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "dry-docking" when it actually happened in a dry-dock... I do not know how big that ship is, but it can be transported on a truck... |
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