vessels Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may...
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Mediterranean square sail (which had been in wide use throughout the classical period) was undergoing a simplification of its rigging components. Both the increasing...
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Fore-and-aft rig (redirect from Fore-And-Aft Sail)
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...
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craft. The apparent wind on the sail creates a total aerodynamic force, which may be resolved into drag—the force component in the direction of the apparent...
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Lateen (redirect from Lateen sail)
lateen (from French latine, meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft...
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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...
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square sail, canted rectangular sail, rectangular balance lug, or balance lug sail in English.: 102–103 : 608 In historical sources, a tanja sail is sometimes...
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Solar sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...
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gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from, and aft of, the aftmost mast. Spankers are also called driver, jigger, and pusher sail. On a schooner of four or...
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