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- 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 (1,496 words) - 07:23, 6 May 2024
rigged on the main mast of a sailing vessel. On a square rigged vessel, it is the lowest and largest sail on the main mast. On a fore-and-aft rigged vessel...4 KB (484 words) - 10:01, 12 November 2022
mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig...5 KB (553 words) - 21:20, 2 April 2024
Barque (redirect from Four-masted barque)in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above. The word "barque"...16 KB (1,807 words) - 20:42, 12 May 2024
Sailing ship (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged ship, said to be "ship-rigged" when there are three or more masts. Others...75 KB (7,929 words) - 20:28, 21 May 2024
Rig (sailing) (category Age of Sail)arrangement of masts, sails and rigging. Examples include a schooner rig, cutter rig, junk rig, etc. A rig may be broadly categorized as "fore-and-aft", "square"...34 KB (4,281 words) - 04:39, 23 May 2024
Full-rigged ship (redirect from Three-masted ship)fore-and-aft sail or a mast of only two segments.[better source needed] The masts of a full-rigged ship, from bow to stern, are: Foremast, which is the second...8 KB (995 words) - 22:47, 26 April 2024
Bermuda rig (category History of Bermuda)consists of a triangular sail set aft of the mast with its mainsail raised to the top of the mast; its luff runs down the mast and is normally attached to it...15 KB (1,859 words) - 06:18, 18 May 2024
two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen...4 KB (451 words) - 02:34, 12 February 2024- the rotor mast. This situation becomes worse if the fuel tanks are located aft of the rotor mast because as fuel burns the weight located aft of the rotor...22 KB (3,181 words) - 07:24, 29 September 2023
main-mast lower, main topmast, main topgallant mast, royal mast (if fitted) Mizzen-mast: the aft-most mast. Typically shorter than the fore-mast. Sections:...20 KB (2,520 words) - 04:24, 24 May 2024
Jackass-barque (section The Olympic)more) masts, of which the foremast is square-rigged and the main is partially square-rigged (topsail, topgallant, etc.) and partially fore-and-aft rigged...6 KB (852 words) - 15:30, 10 August 2023
sails. Fore-and-aft rigs include: Rigs with one mast: the proa, the catboat, the sloop, the cutter Rigs with two masts: the ketch, the yawl Rigs with two...5 KB (484 words) - 07:59, 20 May 2024
Lug sail (section Extent of use)compared with lug sails. The lug rig differs from the gaff rig, also fore-and-aft, whose sail is instead attached at the luff to the mast and is suspended from...8 KB (1,005 words) - 09:34, 21 May 2024
Xebec (category Age of Sail ships)and aft-set mizzen mast. The term can also refer to a small, fast vessel of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean...9 KB (906 words) - 10:56, 29 May 2024
Yard (sailing) (redirect from Manning the mast)from the mast. As well, some smaller fore and aft rigs use a yard. The spar at the head of a lug sail – a roughly square sail which is set fore-and-aft but...12 KB (1,534 words) - 21:52, 17 May 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 (154 words) - 00:41, 10 March 2023
Running rigging (section Fore-and-aft rigged vessels)standing rigging, which supports the mast and bowsprit. Running rigging varies between vessels that are rigged fore and aft and those that are square-rigged...10 KB (1,316 words) - 22:46, 20 February 2022
Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually...10 KB (1,144 words) - 15:50, 12 May 2024
Stays (nautical) (section Types of stays)fore-and-aft along the centerline from the masts to the hull, deck, bowsprit, or to other masts which serve to stabilize the masts. A stay is part of the standing...5 KB (591 words) - 16:42, 5 May 2024
- Dictionary of the German Language, A (1891) by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis Aft Friedrich Kluge2505519An Etymological Dictionary of the German
- Years Before the Mast. Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Why o'er the waves dost
- edge of the sail or the flapping of a sail when it is not trimmed properly. Mainsail The sail aft of the mast which is attached to the mast and the boom