Painter (rope)

A painter is a rope that is attached to the bow of a dinghy, or other small boat, and used for tying up or towing.[1]

Ideally, the painter should float. If used on a boat with a propeller the length of the painter should be shorter than the distance to the propeller, to prevent fouling the engine.

Canoeing

Canoes being used in moving water or whitewater are rigged with a painter at both the bow and stern.[2] In addition to the functions mentioned above, a canoe's painters can be used for lining the boat down difficult sections,[3] self-rescue,[4] and boat recovery.[5]

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gollark: I'm having to reverse-engineer yet ANOTHER heavily obfuscated potatOS sandbox exploit.
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gollark: Well, it prevents malicious programs (also users) from removing it or meddling with system files without doing a simple thing which ensures it can't be automatically removed.
gollark: > > > PotatOS is at least interesting. The sandboxing stuff it uses is pretty generalizable.> > It's a virusPeople often foolishly label potatOS a "virus" just because it conveniently copies itself to disks and has sandboxing.

See also

References
  1. Husick, Charles B. (2009). Chapman Piloting and Seamanship (66th ed.). New York: Hearst Books. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-58816-744-6.
  2. Grant, Gordon (1997). Canoeing: A Trailside Guide (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. p. 111. ISBN 0-393-31489-8.
  3. Callan, Kevin (2012). "The Art of Lining a Canoe". Paddling.net. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
  4. Grant (1997), p. 115
  5. Bechdel, Les; Ray, Slim (1989), River Rescue (2nd ed.), Boston: AMC Books, pp. 97–98, ISBN 0-910146-76-4.
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