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Capacity. 8 persons (not including crew) Crew. 4. Naga Pelangi (Rainbow Dragon) is a wooden junk rigged schooner of the Malay pinas type built using traditional lashed-lug techniques from 2004 to 2009 in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. Finished in 2010, it is operated as a charter vessel in South East Asia.
Bedar (ship) The original Naga Pelangi, a bedar built in 1981, sailing off Singapore. The term bedar (spelled "bedor" in Terengganu) is applied to a wide variety of boats of the east coast of Malaysia that carry one or two junk sails and lack the typical transom stern of the perahu pinas. These junk rigged boats are usually built in the ...
The pinas is a sailing vessel built exclusively in the kuala (Malay: rivermouth) [ 1 ] of the Terengganu river. It was the largest of the ships built in the area, and was only used for deep sea navigation to distant ports. The pinas carried two masts, one in the bow, called "Topan", slightly raked forward, and the main mast, called "Agung ...
Sail components include the features that define a sail 's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may be classified in a variety of ways, including by its orientation to the vessel (e.g. fore-and-aft) and its shape, (e.g. (a)symmetrical, triangular, quadrilateral, etc.).
The oldest known balangay are the eleven Butuan boats, which have been carbon-dated individually from 689 to 988 CE and were recovered from several sites in Butuan, Agusan del Norte. [1][2][3] The Butuan boats are the single largest concentration of lashed-lug boat remains of the Austronesian boatbuilding traditions.
Sailboat. A typical monohull sloop with Bermuda rig. Sailboat on Lake Constance, Germany. A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship. Distinctions in what constitutes a sailing boat and ship vary by region and maritime culture.
Gunter rigged Lobster 12.5. Gunter rig is a configuration of sail and spars used in sailing. It is a fore and aft sail set abaft (behind) the mast. The lower half of the luff (front) of the sail is attached to the mast, and the upper half is fastened to a spar which is approximately vertical and reaches above the top of the mast.
Dinghy sailing is the activity of sailing small boats by using five essential controls: The sails. The foils (i.e. the daggerboard or centreboard and rudder and sometimes lifting foils as found on the Moth) The trim (forward/rear angle of the boat in the water) Side-to-side balance of the dinghy by hiking or movement of the crew, particularly ...