folding boat , auch: collapsible boat

Keen dived at the folding boat now and poured a long burst ahead of it.

Folding boats can be carried by one or two persons, and comfortably fit into a car trunk when packed.

Most folding boats have two-part skins, with different materials used for the deck and the hull.

Although there is much to be said of the advantages of a folding boat, they are not commonplace in boating.

Folding boats are ideal for places where rentals, and road access to the put-in, are not available.

Tavish shook off her reverie and placed the folding boat on the rim of the gorge.

The lower stiffness and rigidity may add to potential safety of a folding boat by allowing it to flex over waves.

Some folding boats have a transom for attaching an electric or petrol engine outboard.

There is my Feathercraft Expedition I, a folding boat that can travel anywhere.

Other folding boats consist of plastic sheets or marine plywood, resembling origami.

The Klepper folding boat has been sold for more than 50 years in Europe and the United States.

Using the folding boats and local timber, they constructed a pontoon bridge, allowing the whole force to cross the river safely with all their equipment.

Aluminium and inflatable alternatives are far more prevalent despite some folding boats such as the Seahopper having been sold for several decades.

Walter Hohn developed and built the first Swiss folding boats, which were tested in white water conditions, in 1924.

Pawldo and Robyn nodded as well, for they had both heard the tale of Tavish's marvelous folding boat.

During the 1950s Fairey Marine decided to build a production folding boat, a cross between a canoe, a dinghy and a punt.

Electric motors are versatile on a folding boat and are well suited to calm water fishing due to low noise and weight.

Inflatable rubber boats were mostly used, although kayaks and canvas folding boats had been tested but were rejected.

Traditional boats in the same category of folding boats include inflatable dinghies and small aluminium boats (tinnies).

The raiders were landed by using a folding boat and three inflatable floats to reach the shore on the east coast of Rhodes near Cape Feralco.

Meanwhile the 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion and 2/6th Field Company practiced crossing the Laloki River with folding boats.

During the Pacific war, Hohn and Hedley's P.L. built a total of 1024 folding boats for the Australian military.

The crew on the forward deck of the sub was breaking out the folding boat and three men stood before an A-A gun which came up through folding deck plates.

Folding boats have been in use for some time with Shellbend folding boats being developed in the 1890s by Mellard Treleaven Reade.

He then designed some instruments to indicate the trim and rolling of boats at sea; but the idea for which he is chiefly remembered was that of the "Berthon Folding Boat" in 1849.