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List of ship directions (redirect from Aft)which wind blows (same as "windward"). Windward: side or direction from which wind blows (opposite of "leeward"). "Aboard": 14th century "Aft": 1580...10 KB (968 words) - 05:03, 16 July 2024
Sail (section Fore-and-aft rigged vessels)Adjusting angle to the wind – Braces adjust the fore and aft angle of a yard (i.e. to rotate the yard laterally, fore and aft, around the mast). Sheets...56 KB (6,006 words) - 11:21, 20 September 2024
the power of wind and propel the vessel. There is a variety of sail plans that propel sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some...75 KB (7,913 words) - 11:45, 23 October 2024
Sail plan (section Fore-and-aft rig)fore-and aft mizzen Barque with two square-rigged masts and a fore-and-aft mizzen Barquentine with one square-rigged mast and two fore-and-aft masts behind...8 KB (861 words) - 01:11, 25 September 2023
Running rigging (section Fore-and-aft rigged vessels)Technora. Fore-and-aft rigged vessels have rigging that supports, shapes, and adjusts the sails to optimize their performance in the wind. Halyards (sometimes...10 KB (1,358 words) - 12:57, 6 October 2024
Tacking (sailing) (redirect from Beating against the wind)they are fore-and aft, square-rigged, a windsurfer, a kitesurfer, or a proa. Fore-and-aft rig – A fore-and-aft rig permits the wind to flow past the sail...16 KB (1,903 words) - 03:23, 16 September 2024
Rigging (section Fore-and-aft rigged vessels)at the clew and the downhaul at the tack on fore-and-aft rigs. The orientation of sails to the wind is controlled primarily by sheets, but also by braces...10 KB (1,047 words) - 12:13, 12 December 2023
Sailing (redirect from Sailing against the Wind)30° to the wind, most 20th-Century square riggers are limited to 60° off the wind. Fore-and-aft rigs are designed to operate with the wind on either side...76 KB (9,943 words) - 21:02, 6 September 2024
Point of sail (redirect from Head To Wind)presented to the following wind, sometimes by putting out sails that adapt well to the purpose, such as a spinnaker on a fore-and-aft rigged vessel. Another...20 KB (2,566 words) - 03:27, 5 July 2024
Nymphia Wind (Chinese: 妮妃雅‧瘋) is the stage name of Leo Tsao (Chinese: 曹米駬; born July 23, 1995), a Taiwanese-American drag performer and dressmaker. In...19 KB (1,520 words) - 12:44, 23 September 2024
Yard (sailing) (section Fore and aft yards)materials such as aluminium or carbon fibre. Although some types of fore and aft rigs have yards, the term is usually used to describe the horizontal spars...12 KB (1,533 words) - 17:53, 26 October 2024
up into the wind, i.e. strong weather helm. The boat builder can compensate for this at design stage, e.g. by shifting the keel slightly aft, or having...10 KB (1,142 words) - 18:25, 29 July 2024
Windsurfing (redirect from Wind surfer)by moving the rig either forward (turning away from the wind) or aft (turning towards the wind). When jibing, the clew of the sail is let around and allowed...91 KB (11,111 words) - 20:15, 22 October 2024
Wind tunnels are machines in which objects are held stationary inside a tube, and air is blown around it to study the interaction between the object and...50 KB (6,816 words) - 12:03, 24 October 2024- the wind velocity and its relation to the rearward displacement of the cyclic control. Without proper ballast in the cockpit, exceeding the aft CG may...22 KB (3,181 words) - 12:22, 26 July 2024
On a square rigged ship, the spanker is a gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from, and aft of, the aftmost mast. Spankers are also called driver, jigger...2 KB (153 words) - 13:16, 17 June 2024- boat is on a port tack if the wind is coming over the port (left) side of boat. The tack is the corner on a fore-and-aft sail where the luff (the forward...4 KB (486 words) - 22:37, 17 May 2024
Rig (sailing) (section Fore-and-aft)to the wind when propelling a vessel forward: they have a front and a back. Fore-and-aft sails can have either of their surfaces facing the wind when in...34 KB (4,281 words) - 03:49, 12 October 2024- A mast-aft rig is a sailboat sail-plan that uses a single mast set in the aft half of the hull. The mast supports fore-sails that may consist of a single...11 KB (1,502 words) - 11:28, 20 September 2024
Turbine (AFT) uses a single mooring line and a downwind two-bladed rotor configuration that is deflection tolerant and aligns itself with the wind without...98 KB (9,309 words) - 10:23, 20 October 2024
- "Fair Wind! Fair Wind!" alow, aloft, All hands delight to cry, As, leaping through the parted waves, The good ship makes reply. While fore and aft, all
- o' mice and men gang aft a-gley; and leave us naught but grief and pain for promised joy Robert Burns, from "To a Mouse" ("Gang aft a-gley" is translated:
- points between running and close- hauled. Running Free To sail with the wind aft and with the sheets eased out. Stand-On-Vessel The boat which does not