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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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   A junk (Chinese: 船; pinyin: chuán) is a type of Chinese sailing ship characterized by a central rudder, an overhanging flat transom, watertight bulkheads, and a flat-bottomed design. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are also characteristically built using iron nails and clamps. [ 1 ]

4. Lorcha (boat) - Wikipedia

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   A junk (left) and a lorcha (right) in 1936 near Sambu Island, Indonesia. Model of a lorcha in the Macau Museum, 2011. 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.

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. List of ship types - Wikipedia

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   A fore and aft-rigged vessel with two or more masts of which the foremast is shorter than the main Settee Single-decked, single or double-masted Mediterranean cargo vessel carrying a settee sail Shallop A large, heavily built, sixteenth-century boat which is fore-and-aft rigged; more recently a poetically frail open boat Ship or full-rigged ship

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   The salvage of the Susan Rose, the fishing boat that ran aground in Point Pleasant Beach, was going as planned early Sunday when water started coursing into the 48-year-old commercial trawler with ...

8. Bedar (ship) - Wikipedia

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   These junk rigged boats are usually built in the Terengganu area. The stern of the bedar is a classical "canu" or " pinky stern ," being a typical "double ender", a bit like a modern ship's lifeboat , with a very full turn of the bilge and with markedly raked stem and stern .

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