A surfboat (or surf boat) is an oar-driven boat designed to enter the ocean from the beach in heavy surf or severe waves. It is often used in lifesaving...

The Margate surfboat refers to three surfboats used for maritime rescue at Margate, on the eastern tip of Kent. They were run as cooperatives, with local...

The Francis Metallic Surfboat is a boat, currently housed at 130 West Center Street in Douglas, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic...

rigging. As the surfboat R.B. Forbe had been wrecked in the rescue of the Gertrude Abbott, volunteers had to drag a second surfboat, the Robert G. Shaw...

White water rafting Rowing (sport) Gig racing Coastal and ocean rowing Surfboat Single scull Dragon boat racing Stand up paddle boarding Dinghy sailing...

their surfboat, carrying provisions for the survivors. However, crossing the reef on that part of the coast was hazardous even with a surfboat. The islanders...

Masters Crew, Surfboat Race (Craig Knox, Bruce O’Brien, Matt Kirke, Wayne Simeon, Sweep: Mark Bourneville ) 2012 - Gold, Piha Reserve Crew, Surfboat Race (Craig...

open men's surfboat category at the World Surflifesaving Championships in Victoria in 2006. He contested and won the open men's surfboat category at...

journey of his war in Vietnam. ISBN 0-9847023-0-X. Bauer, K. Jack (1969). Surfboats and Horse Marines: U.S. Naval Operations in the Mexican War, 1846—48....

A Joseph Francis designed surfboat on display at the National Museum of the Great Lakes....

September 1942 – March 1985) was an Australian Olympian stillwater rower, a surfboat rower and surfcraft boat builder. As a stillwater rower he was a six-time...

drill had to be completed within five minutes), boat handling (righting surfboats), first aid, signal flags, and nightly beach patrols. The Surfmen's motto...

36 foot Type E oar-powered surfboat was launched – Valent among its crew – into the hurricane force swells. The surfboat reached the vessel two hours...

swept by the next trough. The crews of the other surfboats were unable to cross the outer bar. The surfboat's crew then rowed five miles to the distressed...

Fox was a specially built surfboat to be rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. Fox was custom built in 1896 by William A. Seaman at Seaman Sea Skiffs of Branchport...

surface warfare training. surfboat An oar-driven boat designed to enter the ocean from a beach in heavy surf or large waves. Surfboats often play a lifesaving...

Many have fuller hulls with more capacity, but far more drag. Monomoy surfboats, a lifeboat directly descended from whaleboats, are used for recreational...

(Portsmouth, VA) United States (Baltimore, MD) 199 ft (61 m) Francis Metallic Surfboat 1854 Boat United States (Long Branch, NJ) United States (Douglas, MI) 26 ft...

Australian netball team. Her older sister, Ella, has represented Australia in surfboat rowing while her older brother, James, is also a footballer who made his...

Australian netball team. His older sister, Ella, has represented Australia in surfboat rowing while his younger sister, Isobel, is a basketball player drafted...

larger vessels over the next three hours and a signal for landing the surfboats at 5:30 pm.: 244  Just before the main force touched the beach, a gig...

1990 to 1994, he was a surf lifesaver and won the under-21 state medal in surfboat competition. In 1991 he competed with the WA swim team, and in 1998 Paris...

silver World Championship medal. In stillwater retirement Fievez took up surfboat rowing and surf ski racing. He was in a North Cottesloe Beach SLSC boat...

Wakeboard boats also known as wakeboats, surfboats or tow boats are designed to create a large, specially shaped wake, for a wakeboarder to jump the wakes...

sandbank. Barco decided the surf was too severe to launch his station's surfboat. But his crew was able to send a line to the vessel, and bring off most...

Bauer, p 232 Smith, pp 132–147 Smith, pp 159–160 Bauer, K. Jack (1969). Surfboats and Horse Marines: U.S. Naval Operations in the Mexican War, 1846–48....

fatalities. Nearby Station No. 40 of the United States Coast Guard launched a surfboat under heavy enemy shellfire and rowed out to rescue the 32 sailors trapped...

the general public. Surfboat house: the Coast Guard constructed three boat houses at Whitefish Point. It is believed that the surfboat house was moved to...

Nimbin In 2000, the Avoca Beach Surf Life Saving Club launched one of its surfboats as the Les Norton. In 2004, AAP reported that a film adaptation of Barrett's...

it. The Coast Guard vessels Yakutat and Acushnet, using liferafts and surfboats rescued four men from the bow. Only five members of Fort Mercer's 44 man...