Schooner rig
Schooner rig The schooner rig consists of a gaff lower sail (the ...
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Schooner
Schooner For the Australian beer glass, see Australian words#Beer glasses. Two-masted fishing schooner A schooner (IPA: ) is a type of sailing vessel ... the time of the American Revolution. Construction Schooner rigging: 1) Bowsprit, with martingale to the ... 6) Mainsail 7) End of boom The schooner sail-plan has two or more ...
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Square rig
Square rig Main-mast of a square-rigged ship ... square sails set except the course. Square rig is a generic type of sailing vessel ... are called yardarms or simply yards. Square rig was the main design in the age of sail. Square rig can also describe individual four-cornered sails ... However even for the largest vessels, the rig has been largely replaced by fore- ...
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Gaff rig
Gaff rig Gaffelaar, by Johannes Christiaan Schotel Gaff rig is a sailing rig in which the mainsail is a four ... carry a gaff rigged course sail. Gaff rig remains the most popular rig for schooner and barquentine mainsails and ...
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Californian (schooner)
Californian (schooner) Type: Topsail Schooner Hull: Wood Built: 1984, San Diego, CA ... Beam: 24 ft Draft: 9.5 ft Rig Height: 145 ft Displacement: 129 t Sail ... the Californian coast. See also Sail training Schooner Revenue Cutter Service Rigging Tall ship External ...
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Talk:Gaff rig
Talk:Gaff rig Removed text: A gaff is the sail ... the sail. See the picture on the schooner page for an example. The gaff is ... This leads to an advantage of this rig that the mast itself need not be ... to the popularity of this type of rig in the days of wooden spars. A ...
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Fore-and-aft rig
Fore-and-aft rig A fore-and-aft rig is a sailing rig consisting mainly of sails that are set ... Lateen sails. The spanker on a square rig. Fore-and-aft rigs include: Single masted ... Rigs with two or more masts: The schooner. Rigs with three or more masts: ...
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Sail-plan
... lines required to control it the gaff rig requires more work to manage than a ... small boats, it is a very simple rig. On larger sloops, the large sails have ... to keep the boat upright. Generally the rig is safer and less prone to broaching ... among home-built boats uses this simple rig to make "folk-boats." One of the ... bracing the mast. This usually makes the rig even heavier, requiring even more ballast. ...
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Talk:Brigantine
... modifications which have subsequently been made in rig, so that a brig is now (b ... a question, because it looks like a schooner to me. Geo Swan 18:22, 27 ... of debate about where a two-masted schooner ends and a brig begins. After restoring ... determined that the progression is: Two-Masted Schooner: Two masts, both masts setting a sail ... may be gaff or marconi. Stays'l Schooner: as above, but with no sail ...
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Rigging
... The type of the fore and aft rig is the schooner, fig. 5. The sails on the 3 ... try - to the great one. Figure 5 - Schooner. 1, bowsprit, with martingale to the stem ... type of the Mediterranean. Figure 6 - Lateen Rig. These original types, even when unmodified by ... from one to five, and of a schooner from two to five or even ...
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