Lowered Sails (Italian: Vele ammainate) is a 1931 Italian drama film directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia and starring Dria Paola, Carlo Fontana and Umberto...

Solar sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...

better lift-to-drag ratio, than traditional sails. Wingsails are more complex and expensive than conventional sails. Wingsails are of two basic constructions...

upper and lower sails was a matter of practicality, since undivided sails were larger and, consequently, more difficult to handle. Larger sails necessitated...

sail going downwind is predominated by drag forces. Sails are unable to generate propulsive force if they are aligned too closely to the wind. Sails may...

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

A sail plan is a drawing of a sailing craft, viewed from the side, depicting its sails, the spars that carry them and some of the rigging that supports...

There is a variety of sail plans that propel sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig...

junk sail plan and various designs exist. Square headed junk sails have parallel yards and booms and resemble rectangles. Fan-headed junk sails have yards...

article. Sails may be classified as either triangular, which describes sails that either come to one point of suspension at the top or where the sail comes...

powered by their sails. Sails are found in different forms, from primitive common sails to the advanced patent sails. The jib sail is found in Mediterranean...

component parts. It is quick to hoist sail and get underway. The cat rig sails well to windward, especially in calmer water. As a working boat, the forward...

orient square sails fore and aft or to tension their leading edges (luffs), they are not as efficient upwind, compared with lug sails. The lug rig differs...

mat sails used for Austranesian sails has no reinforcement of the sail material along the edges. Since mat sails are not as strong as other sail materials...

Forces on sails result from movement of air that interacts with sails and gives them motive power for sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats...

lateen sail was employed primarily on the Mediterranean Sea, while the Atlantic and Baltic (and Indian Ocean) vessels relied on square sails. The Northern...

Steve. "Black Sails in the Sunset". All Media Network. AllMusic. Retrieved June 18, 2004. Heller, Jason (June 22, 2010). "AFI Black Sails In The Sunset"...

Love. Sun (1929) The Song of Love (1930) The Man with the Claw (1931) Lowered Sails (1931) Courtyard (1931) The Doctor in Spite of Himself (1931) Pergolesi...

is the sail rigged aft of the main mast. The sail's foot is normally attached to a boom. (In extremely heavy weather, the mainsail may be lowered, and a...

like those of lug sail. Tanja sails were rigged similarly to crab claw sails and also had spars on both the head and the foot of the sails; but they were...

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

available components. In use, the sail can be lowered completely quite quickly. Reefing is carried out by lowering away solely on the throat halyard....

Perfido incanto (1918) Un dramma nell'Olimpo (1917) Vele ammainate (1931) Lowered Sails (1931) Giovanni Lista, Futurismo e fotografia, Edizioni Multhipla, Milan...

describe the horizontal spars used on square rigged sails. In addition, for some decades after square sails were generally dispensed with, some yards were...

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...

film director and executive producer. Figaro and His Great Day (1931) Lowered Sails (1931) The Old Lady (1932) Five to Nil (1932) Zaganella and the Cavalier...

end of the boom when the sail is lowered. Lazy jacks guide the sail onto the top of the boom for furling when the sail is lowered. Traditionally booms, and...

of Love (1924) The Fiery Cavalcade (1925) Girls Do Not Joke (1929) Lowered Sails (1931) Before the Jury (1931) Resurrection (1931) Paradise (1932) La...

Camerini, among others. He was the father of the actress Flora Carabella. Lowered Sails (1931) The Last Adventure (1932) I'll Always Love You (1933) Fanny (1933)...

at lower. Sails of large dinosaurs added considerably to the skin area of their bodies, with minimum increase of volume. Furthermore, if the sail was...