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The Worldcruiser 44 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim.It has a two-masted schooner rig, with painted aluminum spars, a spooned raked stem with a bowsprit, a raised counter transom with a boomkin, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed modified long keel, with a cutaway forefoot.
A yawl is a type of boat. The term has several meanings. It can apply to the rig (or sailplan), to the hull type or to the use which the vessel is put. As a rig, a yawl is a two masted, fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with the mizzen mast positioned abaft (behind) the rudder stock, or in some
A typical brig sail plan. In sailing, a full-rigged brig is a vessel with two square rigged masts (fore and main). [2] The main mast of a brig is the aft one. To improve maneuverability, the mainmast carries a (gaff rigged) fore-and-aft sail.
Coaster II, also known as Quissett, is a two-masted sailing schooner moored at the far western end of the Main Pier at Mattson Lower Harbor Park, off Harbor Drive in Marquette, Michigan. She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
A ketch is a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), [1] and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch from a yawl, which has its mizzen mast stepped aft of its rudder post. In the 19th and 20th centuries ...
A two-masted, fore-and-aft rigged sailing boat with a mizzenmast stepped forward of the rudder and smaller than its foremast. Knarr A large type of Viking cargo ship, fit for Atlantic crossings Lorcha A sailing ship with mixed Chinese (rig) and western design (hull) that used since 16th century in far east. Landing Ship, Tank
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Stavros S Niarchos is a brig, that is a two masted vessel with square sails on both masts. She carries five yards on each mast (moving up: Course, Lower Topsail, Upper Topsail, Topgallant and Royal), and a total of 18 sails. In good conditions she has managed speeds of just over 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph).