skeg in English

noun
1
a tapering or projecting stern section of a vessel's keel, which protects the propeller and supports the rudder.
Although the 450 Coastal Commander has a shallow skeg or keel to aid directional control at slow speed, she is not immune to the handling difficulties common to this type of boat.

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1. The hull+skeg and Azimuthals force contributions are analysed separately and are then coupled to analyse their interaction

2. 24 The vessel is a self-propelled trailing suction hopper dredger with twin screw, twin rake, single deck, fully welded, streamline, bulbous bow, twin-skeg, round bilge hull.

3. Starting from the settlement down of tug’s hull main particulars and skeg geometry, sizing of Azimuthals and engines, the simulation environment encloses full 4-DOF tug’s dynamics in conjunctions with a complete 3+1 DOF manoeuvring model of the tethered and assisted ship across the tow-line constraint.