A trailer sailer is a type of sailboat that has been designed to be easily transported using a boat trailer towed by an automobile. They are generally...

The Austral 20 is a 20 ft (6.1 m) long trailer sailer, designed and manufactured in Australia by Austral Yachts in Adelaide. The boats feature roller reefing...

under 30 feet (9 m) in length. Like the similar and usually smaller trailer sailer, they have design features such as light weight and short ballasted...

spread the sail area over many smaller sails, at a time when sails were hoisted by hand, though mechanical assistance was used as the ships, sails, and gaffs...

Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular...

The Cherry 16 is a 4.864 m (15.96 ft) light weight trailer sailer designed by Frank Pelin in the 1970s. The hull is assembled from plywood using the stitch...

shipping Roll trailer Trailer sailer "BOAT TRAILER SHOP: HOW MUCH DO BOAT TRAILERS COST?". Owens & Sons. Henkdel, Steve (1991). Boat Trailers and Tow Vehicles...

"Prelude" (Alias episode), in the TV spy drama series Prelude (yacht), a trailer sailer designed by Ian Proctor Prelude FLNG, the world's largest floating liquefied...

usually stepped further forward than the position found on a sloop. The sail plan of a ketch is similar to that of a yawl, on which the mizzen mast is...

TS16 (Trailer Sailer 16 foot) is an Australian trailerable sailing boat that was designed in 1956 by New Zealander Richard Hartley as a day sailer and which...

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...

A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship. Distinctions in what constitutes a sailing...

Small yachts are typically shorter than 33 feet (10 m) length overall. Trailer sailers that are readily towed by a car are generally shorter than 25 feet...

observers of the wires on early radio masts. The rig consists of a triangular sail set aft of the mast with its mainsail raised to the top of the mast; its...

Sail plans A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel. There is a variety...

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...

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...

cargo. The final change was the implementation of the sail into Viking ship making. Due to adding sails to the knarr, it was an incredibly low maintenance...

provides useful storage for personal belongings and sailing gear. Trailer Sailers are boats small and light enough to be towed by ordinary cars. Their...

ship and sail training operators as their suite of mainly fore-and-aft sails improve non-downwind performance, while their foremast of square sails offers...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A galleass was a warship that combined the sails and armament of a galleon with the maneuverability of the oared galley....

rigged, with the mizzen (rearmost) mast often rigged with a triangular lateen sail, as pictured above. Masts were much higher than those of galleons to allow...

Hawkins was a type of galleon which had three masts, each with three to four sails. The ship could be up to 60 metres long and could have up to 124 guns: four...

The lug sail, or lugsail, is a fore-and-aft, four-cornered sail that is suspended from a spar, called a yard. When raised, the sail area overlaps the...

pronounced inclination towards the prow. They used two to three lateen sails; supplementary sails were often added on the bowsprit and on a topmast atop the main...

company initially focused on trailer sailers, although they have also made keelboats both as variations of their trailer sailer designs and as independent...

of vessel entitled to a commander of a "captain" rank. During the Age of Sail, corvettes were one of many types of warships smaller than a frigate and...

definition, but is generally a small open boat which may be powered by oars, sail or an outboard motor. Some individual examples have the option of being powered...

fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). The main mast is the...

275 tons. Usually they had two masts using two to three lateen sails; supplementary sails like a jib were often added on the bowsprit, as well as on a topmast...