Anchoring the boat is one of the most intimidating skills to learn for a boat operator. Securing a heavy boat with a rope, chain and anchor in strong current, heavy wind, and crushing waves presents ...

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility employees and ship’s force worked together to repair the anchor windlass on USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in about a third of the time it took ...

An anchor windlass is a machine that raises and lowers a boat's anchor using a chain cable. Labels on photograph include capstan head, wildcat, lubricating fittings, mechanical brake, wheel for ...

This amazing object was used over 600 years ago in the building of Chesterfield's famous Crooked Spire church. If you've ever wondered how churches, cathedrals, and castles could be built without ...

Some ideas are so good they just won’t go away. Take shoe laces. I don’t know how many eons ago somebody figured how to attach a shoe to the foot with laces, but it was a good idea then and it still ...