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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. 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.

4. 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 ...

5. 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.

6. Lug sail - Wikipedia

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   Lug sails are divided into three types: standing lug, balance lug (or balanced lug) and dipping lug. [1] Dipping lug: This is a boom-less sail whose yard is lowered or "dipped" when tacking to bring the sail around to the leeward side of the mast. In some cases this can be done by partially lowering the yard - there are a number of variations ...

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   Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home Saturday after his meeting with Donald Trump without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from ...

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   Trump has floated the idea of slapping a 60% tariff on Chinese goods and at least a 10% levy on all other imports. "Someone attuned to markets will be able to convey the potential risks," Hodge said.