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.
Port and Starboard on a ship â what it means. Most of you might have heard the term Port side and Starboard side in relation to a ship.. These are actually nautical terms which refer to the left and right side of the ship respectively when you are looking towards the Bow (the front of the ship â also known as Fore)..