Water is absorbed from the small intestine by osmosis following the active absorption of solutes, primarily sodium chloride. REGULATION OF GASTROINTESTINAL PROCESSES Most gastrointestinal reflexes are initiated by luminal stimuli: (a) distension, (b) osmolarity, (c) acidity, and (d) digestion products.
Popular Mechanics has an article on their site describing a prototype of a designed from scratch Mastercraft wakeboard-specific Boat called the X-Trek. The boat has a unique design and layout from normal wakeboard boats, and it will be interesting to see this boat in reality.
Christopher Smith contributed to the world of powerboat racing when he designed a hydroplane-stepped hull that led to a series of specialty race boats built by the Smith-Ryan Boat & Exchange Company. Smith also designed the Miss Minneapolis, which broke the 60-mile-per-hour speed barrier in 1916 â the first boat to do so. Eventually beginning the Chris-Craft company in 1922, Smith was the first to apply the concept of mass-production to boat building. Today, Chris-Craft is still a household name, and is to the powerboat industry what Ford is to the automobile industry.