Jacket and case manufacture. 1  3 The jackets of the 8-inch and 5 1/4-inch disks are cut out of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) stock to appropriate size, and the fabric liners laminated to them. 2  4 The case or shell of 3 1/2-inch disks is molded out of hard plastic.
Aft: generally anything astern of the z-axis mid-line of a vessel; diminutive of the word after. Bow: the forward section (or fore) of a ship. Stern: the rear section (or aft) of a ship. Port (side): the left side of a ship from the perspective of a person standing on board and facing the bow of the ship on the bridge. Starboard: the right side of a ship from the perspective of a person standing on board and facing the bow of the ship on the bridge.
For other uses, see Stern (disambiguation). The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite of the bow, the foremost part of a ship.