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2. Yard (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   Here, the sails are bent only to the yards' quarters and the yardarms are very short. The yard exists to allow square sails to be set to drive the ship. The top edge of the sail is 'bent on' (attached) to the yard semi-permanently. Clewlines and buntlines are led along the yard and from there to the mast and down to the deck. These allow the ...

3. Lug sail - Wikipedia

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   For a foresail this may be the stemhead or, in some boats, one of a choice of hooks set along each gunwale. The dipping lug is a powerful sail and was widely used in working craft. [2]: 36 Standing lug: The sail and yard remain on one side of the mast and the tack of the sail is set close to the mast. When the wind blows onto the side of the ...

4. Full-rigged ship - Wikipedia

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   The key distinction between a ship and a barque (in modern usage) is that a ship carries a square-rigged mizzen topsail (and therefore that its mizzen mast has a topsail yard and a cross-jack yard) whereas the mizzen mast of a barque has only fore-and-aft rigged sails. The cross-jack yard was the lowest yard on a ship's mizzen mast.

5. Snipe (dinghy) - Wikipedia

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   The Snipe is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by William F. Crosby as a one design racer and first built in 1931. [1] [2] [3] [4]The boat is a World Sailing recognized international class.

6. Moore 24 - Wikipedia

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   The Moore 24 is a development of Grendal, a prototype sailboat that was intended for a Transpacific Yacht Race for boats under 30 ft (9.1 m) in length. That race was never held, but Grendal went on to win the 1970 Midget Ocean Racing Class (MORC) championships.

7. Gunter rig - Wikipedia

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   Gunter rigged Lobster 12.5. Gunter rig is a configuration of sail and spars used in sailing. It is a fore and aft sail set abaft (behind) the mast. The lower half of the luff (front) of the sail is attached to the mast, and the upper half is fastened to a spar which is approximately vertical and reaches above the top of the mast.

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9. Hodgdon Yachts - Wikipedia

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   [10] [11] The SC-1 class was a class of submarine chasers produced during World War I for the United States Navy in order to combat attacks by German U-boats, with 441 boats built from 1917 to 1919. They were 110 ft (34 m) overall and carried one 3-inch (76.2-mm)/23-caliber gun mount , two Colt .30 caliber (7.62 mm) machine guns and one Y-gun ...