In the Fijis the catamaran becomes a double canoe, with both hulls exactly the same, and bearing a platform giving just a little play, so as to allow of the individual peculiarities of the boats being sufficiently humoured.
Now make another pontoon in exactly the same way, and when it is finished fasten both hulls together with three pieces of scantling, as shown in Fig.
Owing to the great breadth there can be no question of ‘initial stability,’ and an ordinary capsize is impossible, while the very light draught of the hulls will take the craft over places where even a rowing-boat would meet her doom.
Tom quickly placed it between the two hulls and sealed the hole in the inner hull.
He informed them that they were now ready to blast off to the Rock, adding that a more detailed search of the area between the ship's outer and inner hulls would be conducted after they had gone.
The bureau of construction and repair has charge of the designing, building and repairing of hulls of ships, including turrets, spars and many other accessories.
The executive departments, except in regard to the hulls and machinery of ships and the special requirements of the director of works, do not make purchases of stores, that work resting with the director of navy contracts.
They saw only the near surface of the river, the dark hulls of the fleet, occasional showers of sparks from smoke stacks, and an immense black cloud made by the smoke of the fleet, trailing behind them far down the river.
Thousands upon thousands of tons go by like shadows, silently, as if the ponderous hulls had no stability or weight; like a dream they float past, solid and yet without reality.
Empty hulls of beechmast crunch under foot, the brown beech leaves have drifted a foot deep against the trunk of a felled tree.
The Flambeau Ojibwe make use of the seed hulls of the Hazelnut in setting the black color of butternut dye.
They came back blackened and sometimes more battered still, and sometimes they were accompanied by great hulls whose crews and passengers were mysteriously missing.
Presently the sunset line appeared ahead, and far away he saw moving lights which were the hulls of the volubly communicating vessels.
We passed a number of brigs and schooners under full sail, their canvass remarkable for its whiteness; their hulls also were snowy white.
The very ships look lonely things; their hulls and sails are white, and some of them have been known in time of cholera to drift over the lake from day to day, with none to guide the helm.
Compressed corn pith is packed between the double hulls of warships.
The oil-cake is a valuable cattle food and the hulls are used for fuel or for paper making.
Next moment the hulls of the two ships were grinding together, the cold steel flashed from its scabbard, and the death-grapple had begun.
I told him I couldn't remember for sure about who brought the hulls up there to his office or what happened to the hulls, and then I talked to him.
Did you see any brown wrapping paper near the window where the hulls were found, near the windows alongside which the hulls were found?
There were three exploded cartridge hulls on the floor, weren't there?
Well, we stood there a while and talked and I called him Donnie, he picked up all them empty hulls that come out of the gun.
Where were thesehulls when you last saw them, or saw the envelope in which they were?
Yes--there would be some more chicken over here around where the hulls were found.
Sims of the Homicide Bureau, who was assisting in the search of the building, brought the three empty hullsto my office.
While you were out there, were any additional hulls found other than these two?
I was over there, I believe, when they finished up with the pictures, and I picked the three hulls up and laid them on what I believed to be a box of books there near the window, and Lieutenant Day dusted them for fingerprints.
Yes, sir; but I believe I initialed the hulls or the envelope that I put them in.
When he got through with the scenery I picked the hulls up.
Captain Fritz told me to get the hullsafter Lieutenant Day finished with them and to take possession of them.
It was right around where the boxes were--where the hulls there were.
Immediately opposite the train stood the black hulls and masts and funnels of two steamers, with a glimmer of lanterns on their decks, and up and down their shrouds.
And as they laughed, and the smoke curled upward from their bearded lips, and the little waves of the peaceful harbour lapped softly against the huge floating forts, the black hulls from the east crept nearer, through the darkness.
Rojestvensky, who, strange to say, had been below decks, now rushed to the bridge, and caught sight of the black hulls of the trawlers.
Bessendium could be hidden somehow,--perhaps between the inner and outer hulls of the Nadine.
I've opened plates between the hulls to dump it in.
With a frown Taj Lamor stared down at the vast metal hulls glistening softly in the dull light of far-off stars, the single brightly beaming star that was their goal, and the dim artificial lighting system.
Because of their small size, they were able to avoid the rays of the larger interstellar cruisers, and as their torpedo-shaped hulls flashed about with bewildering speed, they began to fight back.
A small tray-shaped car for passengers, and the mast and rigging, were supported between and above the hulls by a system of truss-work with adjustible tension rods of iron.
The sides of the hullstoward the centre were parallel.
This boat differs from its kinsfolk of the southern ocean, the point of widest departure being that the hulls are connected by flexible means, so that each hull can adjust itself to the surface of the water it moves in.
Many yachts have been built after the plan of the wherry, but with yacht-like hulls above water.
They fought to great advantage, because most of the vessels in their line of defence were without masts; the few which had any standing had their top-masts struck, and the hulls could not be seen at intervals.
The hulls of those I had seen on landing were neatly built, with round heads and sterns; and over the hulls were light small houses, composed of bamboos, and divided into three or four cabins.
The sea, loaded with phosphoric light, opened beneath the hulls of the barks that transported the baggage and munitions; every dip of the prow plowed up this gulf of white flames; from every oar dropped liquid diamonds.
The people and the soldiers, perched on the summits of the rocks, could distinguish the masts, then the lower sails, and at last the hulls of the lighters, bearing at the masthead the royal flag of France.
We made both the hullsand the engines, and not a forging or a rolled beam entered into the construction of other than the engine.
But through the thin lined hulls of the cruisers the shells crashed like pebbles through glass, the only effect of the metal wall being to explode the shells and scatter their fragments far and wide.
Here they were met by four steamers which Gordon had sent down the Nile, after plating their hulls with iron as a protection against Arab bullets.
Mama can't bear to see hulls lying about everywhere.
While Wilke was still delivering this message he began to put the ladies' work-table in order and reached first for the sheet of newspaper, on which the gooseberry hulls lay.
But be sure to throw the hulls far enough away, or, better still, lay them here on this newspaper supplement, then we can wrap them up in a bundle and dispose of everything at once.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hulls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
