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"shoot" is more clearly seen in "sheet-anchor", one that is kept in reserve, to be "shot" in case of emergency. Fore-and-aft rigs comprise the vast majority...4 KB (588 words) - 18:00, 22 June 2022
A fore-and-aft rig is a sailing vessel rig with sails set mainly along the line of the keel, rather than perpendicular to it as on a square rigged vessel...5 KB (484 words) - 03:11, 16 June 2024
SRV Dominator (section Dominator Fore)the Dominator 3, a modified 2012 Ford F-350 Super Duty, and the Dominator Fore, which is the name utilized for both a now totaled 2018 Subaru Forester,...13 KB (1,458 words) - 16:09, 8 July 2024
Sail (section Fore-and-aft rigged vessels)connect is called the clew on a fore-and-aft sail. On a jib, the sheet is connected to the clew; on a mainsail, the sheet is connected to the boom (if present)...56 KB (5,998 words) - 02:26, 31 May 2024
Rigging (section Fore-and-aft rigged vessels)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, which position...10 KB (1,047 words) - 12:13, 12 December 2023
Mast (sailing) (redirect from Fore-mast)furthest afore, it may be rigged to the bowsprit. Sections: fore-mast lower, fore topmast, fore topgallant mast Main-mast: the tallest mast, usually located...20 KB (2,520 words) - 01:18, 29 June 2024- set on stays running from the fore topmast to the bowsprit, or the fore topgallant mast to the jibboom or even the fore royal mast to the flying jibboom...7 KB (895 words) - 07:11, 27 May 2024
Fore River Shipyard was a shipyard owned by General Dynamics Corporation located on Weymouth Fore River in Braintree and Quincy, Massachusetts. It began...70 KB (8,340 words) - 14:10, 9 June 2024
Running rigging (section Fore-and-aft rigged vessels)mast and bowsprit. Running rigging varies between vessels that are rigged fore and aft and those that are square-rigged. In centuries past, a ship's rigging...10 KB (1,316 words) - 22:46, 20 February 2022
and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy...33 KB (3,760 words) - 02:59, 11 May 2024
The spritsail is a four-sided, fore-and-aft sail that is supported at its highest points by the mast and a diagonally running spar known as the sprit....12 KB (1,551 words) - 16:39, 24 December 2023
variety of sail plans that propel sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails. Some ships carry square sails on each mast—the brig and full-rigged...75 KB (7,910 words) - 00:19, 11 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- Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) (redirect from Fore-leech (sail))In a fore-and-aft-rigged vessel, a headsail is backed either by hauling it across with the weather sheet or by tacking without releasing the sheet. It...306 KB (38,500 words) - 14:17, 11 July 2024
Standing rigging (section Fore-and-aft rigged vessels)in either the fore-and-aft or athwartships direction had a corresponding one in the opposite direction providing counter-tension. Fore-and-aft the system...7 KB (709 words) - 17:58, 27 May 2022
vessel's running rigging, using braces sheets. Only the jibs, staysails and the spanker need to be jibed, as on a fore-and-aft rig. The maneuver of changing...16 KB (2,197 words) - 03:47, 30 March 2024
consisting of a fore mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes...16 KB (1,809 words) - 21:52, 14 June 2024
Yard (sailing) (section Fore and aft yards)modern 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...12 KB (1,534 words) - 21:52, 17 May 2024
Guy (sailing) (redirect from Fore-guy)afterguy attached to the leeward clew of the spinnaker. This is called the sheet and serves a slightly different function. When the boat jibes, the spinnaker...2 KB (337 words) - 17:21, 9 March 2023
- all clear to reef each course, Let the fore-sheet go, don't mind, boys, Tho' the weather should be worse: Fore and aft the spritsail-yard get, Reef the
- box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the
- Contents Foredge: the fore edge of a book, that is, the edge opposite the spine. Gutter: the inner margin of a pair of facing pages. This would be the