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If the mast has a long, thin cross-section and makes up a significant area of the airfoil, it is called a wing-mast; boats using these have a smaller sail area to compensate for the larger mast area. There are many manufacturers of modern masts for sailing yachts of all sizes, a few notable companies are Hall Spars, Offshore Spars, and Southern ...
The first generation, built around 1970, included a backstay and was used on many production boats. A patent application for the B&R rig was submitted in 1973 and was granted in 1975. [1] A second generation eliminated the backstay but used solid, deck-mounted struts to brace the lower mast section.
Many mast-aft rigs utilize a small mainsail and multiple staysails that can resemble some cutter rigs. A cutter is a single masted vessel, differentiated from a sloop either by the number of staysails, with a sloop having one and a cutter more than one, or by the position of the mast, with a cutter's mast being located between 50% and 70% of the way from the aft to the front of the sailplan ...
The boat has a double spreader sloop rig with an extruded aluminum mast and boom. [11] The standing rigging is wire, and the running rigging includes internal main and genoa halyards, two genoa sheets, a mainsheet, a boom outhaul and topping lift, a four-part boom vang and preventer, and two flag and burgee halyards.
Some boats both dredged and acted as buy boats, in which case a bushel basket would be mounted on the fore mast to indicate the latter. With its low freeboard, the bugeye was not generally considered to be an ocean-going vessel; some boats were however sailed to the West Indies in the off season for the tropical trade.
Note that the gaff is fixed on the first mast and that it has one leg on both sides of the sail. A wishbone rig, sometimes also known as fishbone ketch, is a type of rigging on sailboats. [1] This rigging is most popular on heavy two-masted vessels. The rig gets its name from the wishbone, a V- or Y-shaped bone similar to the rig's gaff.
There are two jibsheet winches in the cockpit and a halyard winch located on the mast. The topping lift is internally mounted on the boom. The boat displaces 3,400 lb (1,542 kg) and carries 1,500 lb (680 kg) of ballast. [1] [2] The boat has a draft of 3.75 ft (1.14 m) with the standard fin keel and a hull speed of 5.99 kn (11.09 km/h). [1] [2]
The boat uses a cat rigged mainsail which must be made from dacron or nylon, and the mast can be made from a variety of materials, including wood, aluminum and carbon fiber. [4] The sabot is the traditional first boat for juniors from Long Beach, CA to San Diego, CA, with the Optimist being more popular in the rest of the country.