Raft

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Raft:

"The raft is tangent to the sphere at midpoint. The early navigators all knew this. They saw the islands disappearing over the horizon in the distance and they were all very conscious of a spherical world."

Citations

1. RBF to EJA, Michael Denneny & Arthur Morey, at Belmont Stakes restaurant breakfast, NYC, 3 Apr'75