A sailing vessel's rig is its arrangement of masts, sails and rigging. Examples include a schooner rig, cutter rig, junk rig, etc. A rig may be broadly...
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Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and...
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A Bermuda rig, Bermudian rig, or Marconi rig is a configuration of mast and rigging for a type of sailboat and is the typical configuration for most modern...
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fore-and-aft rig is a sailing vessel rig with sails set mainly along the line of the keel, rather than perpendicular to it as on a square rigged vessel. Fore-and-aft...
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Schooner (redirect from Schooner rig)
A schooner (/ˈskuːnər/ SKOO-nər) is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a...
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A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. Such a vessel is said...
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to a 100% jib as a Solent, because its smaller size is preferable when sailing in the strong winds found in the Solent between the Isle of Wight and Britain...
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A fractional rig on a sailing vessel consists of a foresail, such as a jib or genoa sail, that does not reach all the way to the top of the mast. The forestay...
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Riggers in the United States and Canada, pp. 55, Transportation Trails, Polo, Illinois, 1994. ISBN 0-933449-19-4. Bennett, Jenny (2005). Sailing Rigs...
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that propel sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged ship, said...
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Cutter (boat) (redirect from Cutter rig)
a name for various types of watercraft. It can apply to the rig (sail plan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental...
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Gunter rig is a configuration of sail and spars used in sailing. It is a fore and aft sail set abaft (behind) the mast. The lower half of the luff (front)...
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Barque (redirect from Standing rig of a barque)
or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts consisting of a fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost...
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that the vessel can sail directly. A sailing craft, whose course is downwind, jibes (or "wears" if square-rigged) by having the apparent wind cross the...
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Sloop (redirect from Sloop-rigged)
a single-masted rig with a single headsail and a fore-and-aft mainsail. In this form, the sloop is the commonest of all sailing rigs – with the Bermuda...
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came to refer exclusively to the Chinese ship. The origin of the junk sailing rig is not directly recorded. The Chinese adopted the sail design from other...
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Lateen (redirect from Lateen rig)
the lateen is hampered by a distinct lack of unequivocal depictions of sailing rigs in early Islamic art. A glazed pottery dish from Saracenic Dénia dating...
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Brigantine (redirect from Brigantine rig)
A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail...
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Sail plan (redirect from Types of sailing ships)
drawing of a sailing craft, viewed from the side, depicting its sails, the spars that carry them and some of the rigging that supports the rig. By extension...
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A masthead rig on a sailing vessel consists of a forestay and backstay both attached at the top of the mast. The Bermuda rig can be split into two groups:...
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Sailing craft and their rigs Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship,...
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the stern, it is called jibing for fore-and-aft rigged sailing craft, or wearing ship for square-rigged vessels. When a boat is running with the wind coming...
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Royal Navy sloop Barque A sailing vessel with three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost Barquentine A sailing vessel with three or more...
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offered with a mast-aft rig, and it boasted a number of features that made short-handed sailing easier than with a standard Bermuda rig. Broadblue Catamarans...
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Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular...
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Tim Thomas (21 January 2015). "The development of the high-tech DynaRig on sailing superyachts". BoatInternational.com. Perkins, Tom; Dijkstra, Gerard;...
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large vessel or specifically a ship-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts, each of which is square-rigged. As of 2016, there were more than 49...
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offload its goods onto carts. A barge with no topsail – or top mast sailing stumpy-rigged required a smaller crew. With a shallow draught, they could penetrate...
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