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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.
The wooden boats are open-topped, while the fibreglass versions have a small cuddy-cabin aft of the mast. The design features a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem , a raised transom , a keel-mounted rudder on a fixed long keel .
Star of India is an iron-hulled sailing ship, built in 1863 in Ramsey, Isle of Man, as the full-rigged ship Euterpe.After a career sailing from Great Britain to India and New Zealand, she was renamed, re-rigged as a barque, and became a salmon hauler on the Alaska to California route.
The boat may be fitted with a small outboard motor of up to 4 hp (3 kW) for docking and maneuvering. [3] The design can accommodate four people although it is normally raced with two sailors. For sailing the design is equipped with a sealed mast, plus the boat has foam flotation to enhance self rescue in the event of a capsize.
The Clearwater is a 106-foot (32 m) wooden sailing vessel designed after 18th and 19th century Dutch sailing sloops. With a large gaff rig , a hinged centerboard , and wide shallow hull , these vessels evolved to deal with the challenges of strong tides , shallow waters, and variable winds encountered on the Hudson River .
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The Flying Scot is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass with a balsa core. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars. The hull has a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable centerboard that weighs 105 lb (48 kg) and is raised with a 6:1 mechanical advantage assist.
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