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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 ...
Filled with wind, the sail has a roughly spherical polygon shape and if the shape is stable, then the location of centre of effort is stable. On sailing craft with multiple sails, the position of centre of effort varies with the sail plan. Sail trim or airfoil profile, boat trim and point of sail also affect CE.
The boat is named after the progressive folk singer Woody Guthrie, a friend of Seeger's and author of the tune, "This Land is Your Land". Since the Woody Guthrie was built, volunteers have given sailing experience to thousands of members and guests of the Beacon Sloop club for free. Guests are educated by the volunteers about the history of the ...
The sail plan of the Searunner 31 typically includes a main sail, jib, and sometimes a spinnaker. The trimaran configuration allows for efficient sailing in a wide range of wind conditions, with the ability to achieve higher speeds than monohull designs. One of the notable characteristics of the Searunner 31 is its folding mechanism.
A brigantine sail plan. By the 17th century, the term was adopted by Atlantic maritime nations. The vessel had no lateen sails, but was instead square-rigged on the foremast and had a gaff-rigged mainsail with square rig above it on the mainmast. [5] The mainmast of a brigantine is the aft one.
A Streaker is a type of sailing dinghy designed in 1975 by Jack Holt. [3] It is a light (minimum weight only 48 kg) one-person boat with a uni-rig stayed sail plan.It is sailed mainly in Britain and the Philippines, and over 2200 have been built.
The Westsail 32 was a production fiberglass sailboat built between the years of 1971 and 1980. Approximately 830 were built, about half of them in kit form. [1] The "W32", as they are often referred to, was very heavily built and has taken many people on trouble-free voyages and several circumnavigations.
The Tancook schooner, with its counter stern and characteristic round, or "spoon", bow was a distinctive type of small sailing work boat built primarily on Big Tancook Island, Nova Scotia, and the immediate surrounding area on and near Mahone Bay. The design succeeded the earlier double-ended Tancook whaler fishing boats.