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The frame incorporates plastic wings that extend beyond the sides of the lens like outriggers to help distribute pressure from the strap, thus creating a uniform fit.
THE BEST SKI AND SNOWBOARD GOGGLES OF 2022JVERSTEEGHOCTOBER 26, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEOnly one boat was moving, a long canoe with an outrigger; and from this something white was slowly waving.
CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLANDFor a moment the canoe rocked in spite of its steadying outrigger, with the violence of the activities aboard it.
CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLANDThe outrigger acts as a weight on the windward side, to prevent the narrow canoe from being blown over on the opposite side.
THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUREAUGUSTUS HENRY LANE-FOX PITT-RIVERSThis I consider to be a more natural sequence than to suppose the outrigger invented as a means of steadying the dug-out canoe.
THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUREAUGUSTUS HENRY LANE-FOX PITT-RIVERSWilkes says that whenever the outrigger gets to the leeward side, there is almost invariably an upset.
THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUREAUGUSTUS HENRY LANE-FOX PITT-RIVERSIn Samoa the canoes are built with bow and stern, and the outrigger is pointed towards the fore part only.
THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUREAUGUSTUS HENRY LANE-FOX PITT-RIVERSTo meet this difficulty both the canoe and outrigger are, in some parts, made pointed at both ends.
THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUREAUGUSTUS HENRY LANE-FOX PITT-RIVERSFrom these two logs were derived the double canoe on the one hand, and the canoe with the outrigger on the other.
THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUREAUGUSTUS HENRY LANE-FOX PITT-RIVERSA link between the catamaran and the outrigger canoe is seen in a model in the India Museum, from Madras.
THE EVOLUTION OF CULTUREAUGUSTUS HENRY LANE-FOX PITT-RIVERSWORDS RELATED TO OUTRIGGER
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