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  • Freeboard is 3'6" at the lowest point but the four beams to the ama are at 4'6", chocked at the gunwhale.

    [longboat] closed and set to take the north sea 2009

  • Freeboard is 3'6" at the lowest point but the four beams to the ama are at 4'6", chocked at the gunwhale.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • We were almost over, both of us sitting high on the gunwhale, holding a rope each, and leaning as far back over the water as our weight would allow.

    The Courage to Sail Joyful Fox 2008

  • I noticed Jill was moving up on the gunwhale, and I quickly followed suit.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Belinda 2008

  • I noticed Jill was moving up on the gunwhale, and I quickly followed suit.

    The Courage to Sail Joyful Fox 2008

  • We were almost over, both of us sitting high on the gunwhale, holding a rope each, and leaning as far back over the water as our weight would allow.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Belinda 2008

  • One of the swimmers reaches the gunwhale of the boat and in the swiftest of moves, grabs and ejects an elderly woman and takes her place.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Tobas pushed it out until he stood knee-deep in the surf, then grabbed the gunwhale and steadied it.

    With a Single Spell Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954- 1987

  • He lunged up out of the water, caught at the gunwhale, his body a whiteness against the dark boat.

    Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967

  • But the fog and the darkness afforded him protection, as he climbed over the gunwhale and, without making a sound, moved toward the stern, crossed the after-deck and found the wheel.

    The Inn at the Red Oak Latta Griswold

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  • Variant of gunwale.

    September 25, 2008

  • Or a cetacean packing heat.

    September 25, 2008