Sailboat Rig
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| Fractional rig |
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A fractional rig on a sailing vessel consists of a foresail, such as a jib or genoa sail, that does not reach all the way to the top of the mast.
In the picture to the right, the forestay that secures the mast at the front of the boat is attached...
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| Schooner rig |
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The Schooner rig is a type of ship rigging. It was probably invented in 1713-1714 by Massachusetts sailor Andrew Robinson, although some maritime historians believe that the Dutch had been using this rigging since the early 1500s.
Compared to the...
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| Bermuda rig |
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The term Bermuda rig refers to a configuration of mast and rigging for a type of sailboat and is also known as a Marconi rig; this is the typical configuration for most modern sailboats. Developed in Bermuda in the 17th Century, the term Marconi was...
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| Square rig |
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Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spar which are perpendicular, or square, to the keel of the vessel and to the masts. These spars are called yards and their...
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| Gaff rig |
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Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails) in which a sail is a four-cornered fore-and-aft rig item controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar (pole) called the gaff. The gaff enables a fore and aft sail to be four sided,...
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| Junk Rig |
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The Junk rig, also known as the Chinese lugsail and Sampan rig, is a type of sail rig in which rigid members, called battens, span the full width of the sail and extend the sail forward of the mast.
An origin of the name junk rig is not directly...
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| Mast aft rig |
A mast aft rig is a sailboat sail-plan that uses a single mast set in the aft half of the hull to support a jib or multiple staysail, with either a small or completely absent mainsail. Mast aft rigs are uncommon, but are found on a few production...
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| Yawl |
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A yawl (from Dutch Jol) is a two-masted sailing craft similar to a sloop or cutter but with an additional mizzen mast well aft of the main mast, often right on the transom. A small mizzen sail is hoisted on the mizzen mast.
The yawl is often...
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| Ketch |
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A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: a main mast, and a shorter mizzen mast abaft (rearward) of the main mast. Both masts are rigged mainly fore-and-aft. From one to three jib may be carried forward of the main mast when going to windward. If...
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A sloop (from Dutch sloep) is a sailboat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter. A sloop's fore-triangle is smaller than a cutter's, and a sloop usually bends only one headsail, though this distinction is...
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| Cutter |
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When used in a nautical sense, a cutter is:
Traditionally the sloop rig was a rig with a single mast located forward of 70% of the length of the sailplan. In this traditional definition a sloop could have multiple jibs on a fixed bowsprit. Cutters...
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