Sail
Sail This article is about a means of ... the letter of the Ogham alphabet, see Sail (letter). For the five-yearly tallship event in the Netherlands see Sail Amsterdam A sail is any type of surface intended to ... the wind on the surface of the sail, one side of the sail will ...
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Tallboy   (translated from German)
Tallboy That Tallboy on one Sailing boat is in Steam ... the same time Spinnaker one drives. The Tallboy is a very narrow sail and improves the current of air around ... larger Regattayachten. With travel sails plays the Tallboy however no role.
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Spanker (sail)
Spanker (sail) A spanker is either of two kinds of sail. On a square rigged ship, the spanker ... is a gaff rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost ... two spankers, which evolved from the driver sail. Some also carry a topsail above the ... uppermost or only spanker, called the gaff sail. On a racing or cruising yacht, ...
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Sail-plan
Sail-plan A sail-plan is a formal set of drawings ... architect. It shows the various combinations of sail proposed for a sailing ship. The combinations shown in a sail-plan almost always include three configurations: A light air sail plan. Over most of the Earth, ...
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Studding sail
Studding sail USS Monongahela with a full set of studding sails set A studding sail or studsail is a sail used to increase the sail area of a square rigged vessel in ... pronounced stuns'l. It is an extra sail hoisted alongside a square-rigged sail ...
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Topgallant sail
Topgallant sail On a square rigged sailing vessel, a topgallant sail is the square-rigged sail or sails immediately above the topsail or ... also known as a gallant or garrant sail. A full rigged ship has two topsails ... sails per mast, so the lower topgallant sail is immediately above the upper topsail. ...
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Course (sail)
Course (sail) In sailing, a course sail is the principal sail on a mast. This term is used ... vessels, referring to the largest and lowest sail on each mast (mizzen-course, main-course ... possibly use the term (for the lowest sail rigged aft of each mast), but ...
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Driver (sail)
Driver (sail) A driver is a kind of sail used on some sailboats. Smaller than a ... Lateen | Mainsail | Moonsail | Spanker | Spinnaker | Staysail | Studding | Tallboy | Topgallant | Topsail | Trysail Sail anatomy and materials Clew | Dacron | Foot | Head ...
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Genoa (sail)
Genoa (sail) A genoa (pronounced like the city, or ... jenny) is a type of large jib-sail used on bermuda rigged craft, commonly the ... LP 50% larger than the foretriangle length. Sail racing classes often specify a limit to ... without a penalty. Genoas do add more sail area to a craft, but at the ... genoa allows a significant increase in actual sail area within the calculated sail area. ...
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Points of sail
Points of sail Points of sail is the term used to describe a ... starboard tack while on any point of sail. The points of sail are as follows: Head To Wind At this point of sail the boat is headed directly into ...
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