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Square-rigged caravel or caravela de armada, of João Serrão (Livro das Armadas) in the 4th Portuguese India Armada (Gama, 1502). The square-rigged caravel (Portuguese: caravela redonda), was a sailing ship created by the Portuguese in the second half of the fifteenth century.
The Volvo Open 70 (sometimes referred to as a Volvo Ocean 70) is the former class of racing yachts designed for the Volvo Ocean Race.It was first used in the 2005–06 race (replacing the Volvo Ocean 60 yachts which were first used in 1993).
The fore-and-aft rig is believed to have been developed independently by the Austronesian peoples some time after 1500 BC with the invention of the crab claw sail.It is suggested that it evolved from a more primitive V-shaped "square" sail with two spars that come together at the hull.
Head – In a triangular sail, the corner where the luff and the leech connect is called the head. [16] [8] On a square sail, the top corners are head cringles, where there are grommets, called cringles. [17] Peak – On a quadrilateral sail, the peak is the upper aft corner of the sail, at the top end of a gaff, a sprit or other spar.
Sailors who have completed 25 or more of these annual races may apply for membership in the Island Goat Sailing Society and are referred to as "Old Goats" or "Island Goats". In 1959, the Island Goats Sailing Society was formed with 10 of these sailors to perpetuate and commemorate the Chicago to Mackinac Race, along with its legends and lore.
A Contessa 32 under sail, viewed from the port quarter. The Contessa 32 was designed by David Sadler in 1970, in response to demand for a larger version of his popular Contessa 26 which had been launched by the Jeremy Rogers boatyard five years earlier.
C&C Yachts was a builder of high-performance fiberglass monohull sailboats with production facilities in Canada, Germany, and the United States. [1] C&C designed and constructed a full range of production line cruiser-racer boats, as well as custom one-off and short production run racing and cruising boats.
Morgan was born in Chicago November 1929 and raised in Florida. [3] Morgan built the yacht Brisote and completed a St. Petersburg, Florida to Havana, Cuba race with Bruce Bidwell. [ 3 ] Morgan attended the University of Tampa [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and took a job with Johnson Sails, located at the Jean Street Shipyard on the Hillsborough River . [ 3 ]