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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 the rig. [1] By extension, "sail plan" describes the arrangement of sails on a craft.
The Khufu ship is an intact full-size vessel from ancient Egypt that was sealed into a pit in the Giza pyramid complex at the foot of the Great Pyramid of Giza around 2500 BC. It was thus identified as the world's oldest intact ship and has been described as "a masterpiece of woodcraft" that could sail today if put into water. [3]
Upload file; Special pages; ... Get shortened URL; Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... Sail plan: Single square rig sail of 80.9 m 2 ...
Depiction of a baris in the Nile mosaic of Palestrina. Herodotus reported that barides were built from acacia wood. Boards about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) long were sawn from the hard wood and the ship's hull was built from them by putting the boards together in a staggered manner.
Put the mast back on the correct side of the sail! 02:06, 20 April 2017: 512 × 531 (6 KB) HLHJ: Moved akas and amas so that the centers of effort looked as if they would line up, stepped the mast in the middle of the boat as seen in File:Proa1.jpg and File:Südseeabteilung in Ethnological Museum Berlin 137.JPG. I stll thing the sail is...
Defined by sail plan. All masts have fore-and-aft sails. Schooner: fore-and-aft rigged sails, with two or more masts, the aftermost mast taller or equal to the height of the forward mast(s) All masts have square sails. Brig: two masts, square rigged (may have a spanker on the aftermost) Full-rigged ship: three or more masts, all of them square ...
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Felucca on the Nile at Luxor. A felucca [a] is a traditional wooden sailing boat with a single sail used in the Mediterranean, including around Malta and Tunisia.However, in Egypt, Iraq and Sudan (particularly along the Nile and in the Sudanese protected areas of the Red Sea), its rig can consist of two lateen sails as well as just one.