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Sail plan of a brig. 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. [2] [3] A sailing craft may be waterborne (a ship or boat), an iceboat, or a sail ...
Santa Ana was a 112-gun three-decker ship of the line of the Spanish Navy, built to plans drawn by engineer Miguel de la Puente, following a specification issued by José Romero Fernández de Landa. Her actual constructor at Ferrol was Honorato Bouyón.
San Carlos was a Spanish packet boat built in 1767 at San Blas, Mexico. [1] In 1775, under the command of Spanish naval officer and explorer Lieutenant Juan Manuel de Ayala , the San Carlos became the first ship to enter the San Francisco Bay .
Three-masted barque (US Revenue Cutter Salmon P. Chase, 1878–1907) Three-masted barque sail plan. A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) is rigged fore and aft ...
Sail plan for a polacre-xebec. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a large polacre-xebec carried a square rig on the foremast, lateen sails on the other masts, a bowsprit, and two headsails. The square sail distinguished this form of a xebec from that of a felucca which is equipped solely with lateen sails. The last of the xebecs ...
Sail plan: Full-rigged ship: Armament: 100 guns of various weights of shot: General characteristics after 1685 rebuild [3] Class and type: 100-gun first-rate ship of the line: Tons burthen: 1683 tons: Length: 167 ft 9 in (51.13 m) (gundeck) Beam: 48 ft 4 in (14.73 m) Depth of hold: 19 ft 4 in (5.89 m) Propulsion: Sails: Sail plan: Full-rigged ...
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The hull shape and sail plan are tightly controlled, while the spars, foils and rigging are more open which allows the boat's rig and controls to be set up to the preferences of the crew, rather than dictated by the class rules.