The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes...
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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...
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On a sailing boat, the shrouds are pieces of standing rigging which hold the mast up from side to side. There is frequently more than one shroud on each...
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A sailing vessel's rig is its arrangement of masts, sails and rigging. Examples include a schooner rig, cutter rig, junk rig, etc. A rig may be broadly...
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MAST, Mast, mast, mast-, or masts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mast, MAST or MASt may refer to: Mast (sailing), a vertical spar on a sailing ship...
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Brigantine (category Sailing rigs and rigging)
A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail...
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Full-rigged ship (redirect from Three-masted ship)
A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. Such a vessel is said to...
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Barque (redirect from Four-masted barque)
sailing vessel with three or more masts and fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques)...
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Sailboat (redirect from Sailing boat)
features one mast and two sails, typically a Bermuda rigged main, and a headsail. This simple configuration is very efficient for sailing into the wind...
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propellers that is sail-assisted by a three-mast fore-and-aft sailing rig. The freestanding carbonfiber rotating masts were manufactured by Magma Structures...
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such as wind loads. Examples include masts on sailing vessels, towers for telecommunications, meteorology, and masts on cranes, power shovels, draglines...
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In sailing, a cunningham or cunningham's eye is a type of downhaul used on a Bermuda rigged sailboat to change the shape of a sail. It is named after...
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Barque A sailing vessel with three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost Barquentine A sailing vessel with three or more masts, square-rigged...
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them, but among the surviving sailing barges both Mirosa and Edme have never had engines. The mast was mounted in a mast case, or "tabernacle", at deck...
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Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) (redirect from Military mast)
arrangement of masts, sails, and rigging on a sailing vessel. 2. To fit a sailing vessel with its masts, sails or rigging. rigging The system of masts and lines...
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Koru (yacht) (category Sailing yachts built in the Netherlands)
Oceanco starting in 2021, and delivered in April 2023. It is a three-masted sailing yacht 127 meters (417 ft) long and reported to have cost $500 million...
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Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing craft (sailing vessel, ice boat, or land yacht), whose next destination is into the wind...
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Sail plan (redirect from Types of sailing ships)
or ship in a hierarchy of sailing rigs: Yachts Catboat with a single sail Sloop with mainsail and jib Yawl with a small mast behind the steering post Ketch...
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Jury rigging (redirect from Jury mast)
jury-rig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In maritime transport and sailing, jury rigging is making temporary makeshift running repairs with only the...
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Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) (redirect from Leech (sailing))
the base of a mast and used for securing that mast's sails' halyards with a series of belaying pins. Fifie A sailing boat with two masts with a standard...
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Cutter (boat) (category Sailing ships)
of fast-sailing vessel introduced in the 18th century, some of which were used as small warships. As a sailing rig, a cutter is a single-masted boat, with...
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Brig (redirect from Sailing brig)
A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century...
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A yard is a spar on a mast from which sails are set. It may be constructed of timber or steel or from more modern materials such as aluminium or carbon...
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Sloop (category Sailing rigs and rigging)
regarded as a single-masted rig with a single headsail and a fore-and-aft mainsail. In this form, the sloop is the commonest of all sailing rigs – with the...
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Yacht (redirect from Motor sailing yacht)
two-masted sailing vessel. A treatise on the subject, A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing, provided detailed information on selecting, equipping, sailing,...
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magnesium, iron, and other metals. The pinisi, a traditional Indonesian two-masted sailing ship, is still used widely by the Buginese and Makassarese, mostly for...
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boom that fits loosely about the mast. Bond, Bob (11 August 1992). The Handbook of Sailing: A Complete Guide to All Sailing Techniques and Procedures for...
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A mast-aft rig is a sailboat sail-plan that uses a single mast set in the aft half of the hull. The mast supports fore-sails that may consist of a single...
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Schooner (category Merchant sailing ship types)
SKOO-nər) is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast...
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Gaff rig (category Sailing rigs and rigging)
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...
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