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    The crab claw sail is a fore-and-aft triangular sail with spars along upper and lower edges. The crab claw sail was first developed by the Austronesian...
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    Sailing ship (redirect from Sail ship)
    peoples developed maritime technologies that included the fore-and-aft crab-claw sail and with catamaran and outrigger hull configurations, which enabled...
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    rigged sails, gaff rigged sails, gaff sails, gunter rig, lateen sails, lug sails, tanja sails, the spanker sail on a square rig and crab claw sails. Fore-and-aft...
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    Lateen (redirect from Lateen sail)
    various fore-and-aft rigs used in that region, such as the crab claw sail. The lateen sail played a prominent part in the shifts in maritime technology...
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    Traditional Austronesian generalized sail types. C, D, E, and F are types of crab claw sails. G, H, and I are tanja sails. A Double sprit (Sri Lanka) B Common...
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    the fore-and-aft crab claw, tanja and junk rigs. The date of introduction of these later Austronesian sails is disputed. Lateen sails emerged by around...
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    technologies (notably catamarans, outrigger boats, lashed-lug boats, and the crab claw sail), this enabled their rapid dispersal into the islands of the Indo-Pacific...
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    of the older Austronesian triangular crab-claw sail. It developed from the fixed mast version of the crab-claw sail and is functionally identical, with...
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    decking, its submerged hulls and symmetrical "crab claw" sail slender foil or radically extended tips claw sail (Te Laa). Tepukei boats are produced primarily...
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    technologies (notably outrigger boats, catamarans, lashed-lug boats, and the crab claw sail) – it is likely that the progressive development of these technologies...
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    Rig (sailing) (category Age of Sail)
    sail. Lateen rig features a three-sided sail set on a long yard, mounted at an angle on the mast and running in a fore-and-aft direction. Crab claw sail...
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    (balangay or baloto) with two outriggers (katig) propelled by sails (usually a large crab-claw sail opposite a smaller triangular foresail) The word paraw (also...
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    and twin-hulled canoes and a range of sailing rigs that included the crab claw sail. The origins of this technology is difficult to date, relying largely...
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    (notably catamarans, outrigger boats, lashed-lug boat building, and the crab claw sail), which enabled their rapid dispersal into the islands of the Indo-Pacific...
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  • Austronesian peoples, using technologies like multihulls, outriggers, crab claw sails, and tanja sails. This enabled the rapid spread of Austronesians into the islands...
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    Asia. They are traditionally fitted with Austronesian sails, like the crab claw sails and tanja sails, but in modern times are often fitted with petrol engines...
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    characteristic crab claw sail. The design is currently manufactured by Laser Performance. The distinctive low-aspect ratio Lateen sail gives the Sunfish...
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  • fore-sails that may consist of a single jib, multiple staysails, or a crab claw sail. The mainsail is either small or completely absent. Mast-aft rigs are...
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    dugouts are joined by booms, with a platform built on top. The sail is a crab-claw sail. Horridge (2008) discusses the rig and how the craft is manouvred...
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    crab claw sail which had two booms that could be tilted to the wind. The sails were made from mats woven from pandan leaves. The triangular crab claw...
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    It has been deduced that they had sails some time before 2000 BCE.: 144  Their crab claw sails enabled them to sail for vast distances in open ocean....
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    Northern Marianas. They are characterized by a single outrigger and a crab claw sail. They are the largest native sailing ships (ladjak) of the Chamorro...
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    the 1960s, Gozo boats had a settee rig. Lateen (a triangular sail) Tanja sail Crab claw sail Whitewright 2009, p. 103 Deutsches Archäologisches Institut:...
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    Proa (section Sail rigs)
    the development of the lateen sail in western ship traditions, derived from the more ancient Austronesian crab claw sail. Many of these traditional vessels...
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    Austronesian outrigger canoes that use the crab claw sail traditional throughout Polynesia. Whilst this sail presents some difficulties in tacking into...
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    Spritsail (redirect from Sprit-sails)
    the jibboom and flying jibboom via the guys supporting those spars. Crab claw sail Oselvar Underhill, Harold (1938). "Glossary". Sailing Ship Rigs and...
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    watercraft of Tahiti. They were large, two masted, and rigged with crab claw sails. Taonui, Rāwiri (22 September 2012). "'Canoe navigation - Waka – canoes'...
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    (receiving wind from aft) Palaris with pinisi sail Javanese janggolan with lete sail (a variant of crab claw sail). "Definition of WING AND WING". Merriam-Webster...
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  • simple sailing craft. Sail plan and hull form differ. Sail plans may include lateen, also known as crab-claw or half-crab-claw, Latin, or triangular....
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    including the sail shaped like a "lateen sail" (actually the crab claw sail), hence the name Islas de las Velas Latinas (Islands of the Lateen Sails),: 131 ...
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