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2. Sail plan - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Full-rigged ship - Wikipedia

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   Full-rigged sailing ship Christian Radich Full-rigged sailing ship Royal Clipper Amerigo Vespucci, full-rigged ship of the Italian Marina Militare. A full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. [1]

4. Partridge 1885 - Wikipedia

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   Partridge was launched in 1998 and sailing trials, with new sails by Ratsey & Lapthorn (Partridge's original sailmakers in 1885), were completed in the Solent with Partridge based at Cowes. [ 24 ] In 1999, after a summer of sailing in the Solent, Partridge was placed on a cargo ship and taken to the Mediterranean, being offloaded on the island ...

5. Cutter (boat) - Wikipedia

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   A gaff cutter, Kleine Freiheit, with a genoa jib set USCGC Legare, an example of a US Coast Guard cutter A cutter is any of various types of watercraft.The term can refer to the rig (sail plan) of a sailing vessel (but with regional differences in definition), to a governmental enforcement agency vessel (such as a coast guard or border force cutter), to a type of ship's boat which can be used ...

6. Forces on sails - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Galway hooker - Wikipedia

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   The Galway hooker (Irish: húicéir) is a traditional fishing boat used in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland. The hooker was developed for the strong seas there. It is identified by its sharp, clean entry, bluff bow, marked tumblehome and raked transom. Its sail plan consists of a single mast with a main sail and two foresails.

8. Lewis and Clark's keelboat - Wikipedia

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   It was 55 feet (17 m) long, with an 8-foot (2.4 m) beam, and with a shallow draft. The mast was 32 feet (9.8 m) high and could be lowered. The boat could carry a headsail and a square rigged sail. A 10-foot (3.0 m) long deck at the bow made a forecastle. A raised aftercastle of the same length contained a cabin. The hold had a capacity of 12 ...

9. Bermuda rig - Wikipedia

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   J-class cutter-rigged sail plan with Bermuda mainsail c. 1930 Bermuda rig , Bermudian rig , or Marconi rig is a type of sailing rig that uses a triangular sail set abaft (behind) the mast. It is the typical configuration for most modern sailboats.