do this before sailing in the Southern Ocean. On modern tall ships the yards are not designed to be sent down on deck, but 'lifting yards' that can be raised...

England Yard (sailing), a spar on a traditional sailing ship YARD (software), a documentation generator for the Ruby programming language The Yard (2011...

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...

Limited, manufacturers of concrete products. The yard was then leased to the newly established Dolphin Sailing Barge Museum Trust. The inlet alongside the...

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...

California, in use during World War II Yard (sailing), a spar on the mast of a sailing ship Ship (disambiguation) Yard (disambiguation) This disambiguation...

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,...

German Naval Yards Kiel, archived from the original on 4 August 2020, retrieved 24 February 2017 Charl van Rooy (6 February 2017), "Sailing Yacht A delivered"...

man the yards To have all of the crew of a sailing vessel not required on deck to handle the ship go aloft and spread out along the yards. Originally...

latine, meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction...

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...

temporary stub bow. On 7 March 1943, she left Sydney for Puget Sound Navy Yard, sailing backward the entire voyage, where a new bow was fitted with the use...

Star of Erin (Yard No.16), sailing ship for J P Corry & Co, launched 9 October 1862, completed 11 October 1862. Recife (Yard No.17), sailing ship for Mr...

Black Pearl 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...

stowed positions down towards the tip of the yard below. They are then not adjusted significantly while sailing until the sail is to be handed (put away)...

nautical resonances: the tasks involved in operating a ship, particularly a sailing ship, providing numerous specialities within a ship's crew, often organised...

such as carbon fibre used in the rigging of a sailing vessel to carry or support its sail. These include yards, booms, and masts, which serve both to deploy...

blue water sailing yachts. The company's yard is located in Ellös on the island of Orust, Västra Götaland. Harry Hallberg founded his yard in 1943, and...

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...

the wind. footboat A barge's boat or dinghy. footrope Each yard on a square-rigged sailing ship is equipped with a footrope for sailors to stand on while...

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...

unused portion to a spar or a stay, as the primary measure to preserve a sailing vessel's stability in strong winds. Restoring full sail area is termed...

named for the state of Pennsylvania. She was the largest United States sailing warship ever built, the equivalent of a first-rate of the British Royal...

A Thames sailing barge is a type of commercial sailing boat once common on the River Thames in London. The flat-bottomed barges, with a shallow draught...

In sailing, a halyard or halliard is a line (rope) that is used to hoist a ladder, sail, flag or yard. The term "halyard" derives from the Middle English...

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...

explanations. One proposed origin involves the world of full-rigged sailing ships, in which yard is used not as a measure of length or size, but as the name of...

Cliffs of Dover Ashford Borough Museum Chatham Historic Dockyard Dolphin Yard Sailing Barge Museum Dover Museum Kent Battle of Britain Museum Kent International...

This article lists active sailing yachts of 110 feet (34 m) and upwards in length. This list features vessels with sails which were classed as yachts...

or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered...