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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century...

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...

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)...

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...

barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts and fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Riggers in the United States and Canada, pp. 55, Transportation Trails, Polo, Illinois, 1994. ISBN 0-933449-19-4. Bennett, Jenny (2005). Sailing Rigs...

to the rig (or sailplan), to the hull type or to the use which the vessel is put. As a rig, a yawl is a two masted, fore and aft rigged sailing vessel...

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...

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...

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...

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...

full-rigged ship A sailing vessel with three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. A full-rigged ship is said to have a "ship rig". full steam ahead...

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...

Henry Coleman (1906). The Sailing Boat: A Treatise on Sailing Boats and Small Yachts, Their Varieties of Type, Sails, Rig, Etc. London: Chapman and Hall...

Look up jury-rig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In maritime transport terms, and most commonly in sailing, jury-rigged is an adjective, a noun, and...

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:...

Thames sailing barges. Web article Archived 2019-11-02 at the Wayback Machine about triangular 'Leg-o-Mutton' sprit sail rig. Video of sailing the Oselvar...