The term to square a yard is used when sailing a square-rigged ship. To "square a yard" is to lay the yards at right angles to the line of the keel by...

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 and...

Sailing craft and their rigs Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship,...

wind that the vessel can sail directly. A sailing craft, whose course is downwind, jibes (or "wears" if square-rigged) by having the apparent wind cross...

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...

bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are rigged square, and only the aftmost...

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 mainsail...

The following sail plans are at various scales. Gaff and square-rigged sailing craft "Sailing carriage", 1785 Full-rigged clipper ship, Comet, 1851 Barque...

of the foremost mast on a sailing boat. It is usually a fore-and-aft sail, but on older sailing ships would include a square-sail on a bowsprit. A jib...

[kɐɾɐˈvɛlɐ]) is a small sailing ship that uses both lateen and square sails and was known for its agility and speed and its capacity for sailing windward (beating)...

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...

the stern, it is called jibing for fore-and-aft rigged sailing craft, or wearing ship for square-rigged vessels. When a boat is running with the wind coming...

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...

A point of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface. The principal points of sail...

a cookie Square (sailing), to adjust the position of the yardarms on a square-rigged vessel to a 90-degree angle with the keel Square (slang), several...

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...

owner, Tom Perkins. She is one of the world's most complex and largest sailing yachts at 88 m (289 ft), similar in size to the Athena and Eos. The vessel...

the free dictionary. A jibe (US) or gybe (Britain) is a sailing maneuver whereby a sailing vessel reaching downwind turns its stern through the wind...

A sailing hydrofoil, hydrofoil sailboat, or hydrosail is a sailboat with wing-like foils mounted under the hull. As the craft increases its speed the...

Sailing yachts A sailing yacht (US ship prefixes SY or S/Y), is a leisure craft that uses sails as its primary means of propulsion. A yacht may be a sail...

beyond the scope of this article. Sailing craft employ two types of rig, the square rig and the fore-and-aft rig. The square rig carries the primary driving...

two-masted sailing vessel. A treatise on the subject, A Manual of Yacht and Boat Sailing, provided detailed information on selecting, equipping, sailing, seamanship...

fore-and-aft mainsail. In this form, the sloop is the commonest of all sailing rigs – with the Bermuda sloop being the default rig for leisure craft,...

mast itself. Merchant ships in the age of sail would also do this before sailing in the Southern Ocean. On modern tall ships the yards are not designed...

various types of watercraft. It can apply to the rig (sail plan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental...

barque A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts square-rigged except the sternmost, which is fore-and-aft-rigged. barquentine A sailing vessel...

is a sailing yacht launched in 2016, which is 106.7 meters (350.1 ft) in length. It has three DynaRig masts supporting a sail area of 2,900 square meters...

twentieth centuries. They were the largest of merchant sailing ships, with three to five masts and square sails, as well as other sail plans. They carried lumber...

In sailing, a sheet is a line (rope, cable or chain) used to control the movable corner(s) (clews) of a sail. In nautical usage the term "sheet" is applied...

fore-and-aft rig is a sailing vessel rig with sails set mainly along the line of the keel, rather than perpendicular to it as on a square rigged vessel. Fore-and-aft...