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2. Junk rig - Wikipedia

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   The Keying was a Chinese ship that employed a junk sailing rig. Scale model of a Tagalog outrigger ship with junk sails from Manila, 19th century. The junk rig, also known as the Chinese lugsail, Chinese balanced lug sail, or sampan rig, is a type of sail rig in which rigid members, called battens, span the full width of the sail and extend the sail forward of the mast.

3. Lorcha (boat) - Wikipedia

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   The lorcha is a type of sailing vessel having a junk rig with a Cantonese or other Chinese-style batten sails on a Portuguese or other European-style hull. The hull structure made the lorcha faster and able to carry more cargo than the normal junk. The advantage of the junk rig was in its ease of handling and resulting reduced crewing ...

4. Junk (ship) - Wikipedia

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   [8] [9] Eastern lug sail, which used battens and is commonly known as "junk rig", was likely not Chinese in origin: The oldest depiction of a battened junk sail comes from the Bayon temple at Angkor Thom, Cambodia. [10]: 460–461 From its characteristics and location, it is likely that the ship depicted in Bayon was a Southeast Asian ship.

5. Lug sail - Wikipedia

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   A lugger, showing a variety of lug sail types. The lug sail, or lugsail, is a fore-and-aft, four-cornered sail that is suspended from a spar, called a yard. When raised, the sail area overlaps the mast. For "standing lug" rigs, the sail may remain on the same side of the mast on both the port and starboard tacks.

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7. Rig (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   A sailing vessel's rig is its arrangement of masts, sails and rigging. [1] Examples include a schooner rig, cutter rig, junk rig, etc. [2] A rig may be broadly categorized as "fore-and-aft", "square", or a combination of both. Within the fore-and-aft category there is a variety of triangular and quadrilateral sail shapes.

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   No. 2 seed Iowa State basketball opens its 2024 Big 12 Tournament on Thursday with another matchup against No. 10 seed Kansas State.ESPN2 will show the 6 p.m. CT contest. The Cyclones (24-7, 13-5 ...

9. Cat rigged - Wikipedia

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   A boat that is cat-rigged can also be described as having a Una rig. Laser dinghies are cat-rigged, as are Finn dinghies, Optimists, many Freedom Yachts and many traditional fishing vessels. Also cat-rigged are catboats, [1] a traditional style of wide-beamed, shallow-draft boat, typically gaff-rigged with a centreboard. Formerly common on the ...