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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 bottom of the sail to be hoisted up to the yard, so the sail is effectively folded in two.
It is believed to be the last intact shipyard in the United States that built wooden sailing ships, [53] with a former blacksmith shop at the site reconstructed with a contemporary design. [ 54 ] An outdoor sculpture at the Percy & Small Shipyard museum provides a visual of the scale of Wyoming , with minimalist steel shapes for the bow and ...
3-mast staysail wooden schooner; originally Vira. Largest Wooden hulled sailing yacht. [1] Lamima: 65.20 m (214 ft) Italthai Industrial Group: Marcelo Penna: 2014: 2-mast auxiliary gaff wooden pinisi, hull built in Indonesia Aquarius II: 65.00 m (213 ft) Royal Huisman: Dykstra Naval Architects: 2024: 2-mast (ketch rig) aluminium Adix: 64.85 m ...
In the mid 1980s Hans Christian Yachts commissioned the designing of a new series of boats based on a more modern hull design with the goal of the "ultimate cruising sailboat." The end result was the Christina series with the 52 and 48 models designed by Doug Peterson [ 1 ] and Scott Sprague designing 40 and 43 [ 2 ] versions.
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This is a list of notable sailboat designers and manufacturers, which are described by an article in English Wikipedia. Sailboat design and manufacturing is done by a number of companies and groups. Notable designers
The penultimate wooden-built clipper before Robert Steele's yard changed to composite construction, Serica was the first tea clipper home in 1864 and only beaten by Fiery Cross in 1865 because no tug was available. Three Brothers (clipper) 1862 United States (New York, NY) Scrapped in 1899 331.0 ft (100.9 m)