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regatta: see rowing rowing, the art of propelling a boat by means of oars operated by hand. Boats propelled by oars (e.g., the galley ) were used in ancient times for both war and commerce. Rowing is now generally used only for propelling small boats or for sport.
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; sailing sailing, as a sport, the art of navigating a sailboat for recreational or competitive purposes.

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There is no single "yacht type" of boat, rather many types that include sloops, yawls, catamarans, and ketches.
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Regatta

A high-end Unix-based pSeries server from IBM. Introduced in late 2001, the model p690 incorporates mainframe class self healing capabilities and partitioning to the pSeries (RS/6000) family for the first time. The Regatta also inaugurated IBM's Power4 chip known as "Spinnaker," which contains two processors running at 1 GHz. The copper-based silicon on insulator (SOI) Power4 CPU chips provide increased performance and use up to 66% less power than previous POWER chips.


regatta
an organized series of races of yachts, rowing boats, etc.


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