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The captain was Saleh al Jabri, with 25 years of sailing experience. [4] Illustrations show that the ships were square-rigged, but virtually nothing else was known of their rigging. The sails were handmade from canvas. The main sail was 81 square metres (870 sq ft) and weighed over 150 kilograms (330 lb). The second mast bore a smaller mizzen sail.
The lowest and normally largest sail on a mast is the course sail of that mast, and is referred to simply by the mast name: Foresail, mainsail, mizzen sail, jigger sail or more commonly forecourse etc. Even a full-rigged ship did not usually have a lateral (square) course on the mizzen mast below the mizzen topmast.
A lug sail is an asymmetric quadrilateral sail suspended on a spar and hoisted up the mast as a fore-and-aft sail. A mizzen sail is a small triangular or quadrilateral sail at the stern of a boat. A steadying sail is a mizzen sail on motor vessels such as old-fashioned drifters and navy ships (such as HMS Prince Albert). The sail's prime ...
Motorized Lambo, the sail has been removed. The pinisi rig comprises seven to eight sails on two masts, i.e., three foresails (in Konjo, the language of the Bontobahari shipwrights, cocoroq [22]) set over a long bowsprit (anjong), a main and main-topsail on the main mast (sombalaq bakka and tampaseqreq), mizzen and mizzen-topsail on the smaller mast aft (sombalaq ri boko and tampaseqreq ri ...
A fife rail is a design element of a European-style sailing ship used to belay the ship's halyards at the base of a mast. When surrounding a mast, a fife rail is sometimes referred to specifically by the name of the mast with which it is associated: the main fife rail surrounds the main mast; the mizzen fife rail surrounds the mizzen mast, etc.
The peak of the sail is permanently attached to the head of the sprit, which is steadied by two sets of vangs. [6] Thames sailing barges. The barge in the distance has all sail set, mainsail (the spritsail), topsail, foresail, topmast staysail and mizzen. The spritsail rig was normally used without a boom. (The latter was usually found on fore ...
The BDO Corporate Center Ortigas at the Ortigas Center is an office skyscraper in Mandaluyong, Philippines serving as the headquarters of Banco de Oro (BDO). Located along ADB Avenue , It is one of the tallest buildings in Ortigas Center standing at almost 689 feet (210 meters).
Brails, in a sailing ship, are small lines used to haul in or up the edges or corners of sails, before furling. [1] On a ship rig, these brails are most often found on the mizzen sail. To haul and furl the sails, the command used in the early 18th century was hale up the brails or brail up the sails .