Tanja sail (Malay: layar tanjak) or tanja rig is a type of sail commonly used by the Austronesian people, particularly in Maritime Southeast Asia. It...

the tanja sail (also known variously and misleadingly as the canted square sail, canted rectangular sail, boomed lugsail, or balance lugsail). Tanja sails...

tacked. Crab claw sail Settee (a triangular sail with the front corner cut off) Tanja sail, a type of sail sometimes mistaken as lateen sail. "the definition...

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...

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...

reliefs of large Javanese outriggers ships with various configurations of tanja sails are also found in the Borobudur temple, dating back to the 8th century...

a halyard or halliard is a line (rope) that is used to hoist a ladder, sail, flag or yard. The term "halyard" derives from the Middle English halier...

lugsail Tanja sail, a type of sail from Nusantara archipelago Block, Leo (2003). To Harness the Wind: A Short History of the Development of Sails. Annapolis:...

sailing vessel to carry or support its sail. These include yards, booms, and masts, which serve both to deploy sail and resist compressive and bending forces...

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 the...

corner(s) (clews) of a sail. In nautical usage the term "sheet" is applied to a line or chain attached to the lower corners of a sail for the purpose of extension...

as long as their hulls, bipod or tripod mast with a canted square sail (tanja sail), a bowsprit with a spritsail, rowing gallery (where people row by...

a topgallant sail (topgallant alone pronounced "t'gallant", topgallant sail pronounced "t'garns'l", is the square-rigged sail or sails immediately above...

A genoa sail is a type of large jib or staysail that extends past the mast and so overlaps the main sail when viewed from the side, sometimes eliminating...

the 1960s, Gozo boats had a settee rig. Lateen (a triangular sail) Tanja sail Crab claw sail Whitewright 2009, p. 103 Deutsches Archäologisches Institut:...

vessels Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may...

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...

people invented the balance lugsail (tanja sail), probably developed from the fixed mast version of the crab claw sail.: 98–99 [obsolete source] The junk...

On sailboats, a sail batten is a flexible insert in a sail, parallel to the direction of wind flow, that helps shape its qualities as an airfoil. Battens...

A studding sail, or stun'sl (pronounced stuns'l /ˈstʌnsəl/) is an extra sail on a square rigged vessel for use in fair weather. It is set outside the...

Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia Tanja sail or Tanjung, another name for the Austronesian tilted square sail Tanjong (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from, and aft of, the aftmost mast. Spankers are also called driver, jigger, and a pusher sail. On a schooner of four...

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...

A staysail ("stays'l") is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from...

Look up jib in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A jib is a triangular sail that sets ahead of the foremast of a sailing vessel. Its tack is fixed to the...

sails also later developed into square or rectangular tanja sails, which like crab claw sails, can be tilted against the wind. Fixed tripod or bipod...

purpose is to create anchor points for the sails that extend beyond the vessel’s bow, increasing the size of sail that may be held taut. The word bowsprit...

specific size or sail-plan, and thus a sloop should not be confused with a sloop-of-war. The term is also used loosely with other sail plans, as with the...

transport vessels. Proas are traditionally rigged with the crab claw and tanja sails. The modern proa exists in a wide variety of forms, from the traditional...

sail chafe. There are many points in the rig of a large sailing ship where the sails come into contact with the standing rigging; unprotected sails would...