The crab claw sail is a fore-and-aft triangular sail with spars along upper and lower edges. The crab claw sail was first developed by the Austronesian...

Traditional Austronesian generalized sail types. C, D, E, and F are types of crab claw sails. G, H, and I are tanja sails. A Double sprit (Sri Lanka) B Common...

various fore-and-aft rigs used in that region, such as the crab claw sail. The lateen sail played a prominent part in the shifts in maritime technology...

peoples developed maritime technologies that included the fore-and-aft crab-claw sail and with catamaran and outrigger hull configurations, which enabled...

Crab claw examples Melanesian V-shaped square sail New Zealand V-shaped square sail Polynesian crab claw sail New Guinea crab claw sail Hawaiian crab...

rigged sails, gaff rigged sails, gaff sails, gunter rig, lateen sails, lug sails, tanja sails, the spanker sail on a square rig and crab claw sails. Fore-and-aft...

technologies (notably catamarans, outrigger boats, lashed-lug boats, and the crab claw sail), this enabled phases of rapid dispersal into the islands of the Indo-Pacific...

the fore-and-aft crab claw, tanja and junk rigs. The date of introduction of these later Austronesian sails is disputed. Lateen sails emerged by around...

of the older Austronesian triangular crab-claw sail. It developed from the fixed mast version of the crab-claw sail and is functionally identical, with...

decking, its submerged hulls and symmetrical "crab claw" sail slender foil or radically extended tips claw sail (Te Laa). Tepukei boats are produced primarily...