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- Look up reefing in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Reefing reduces the area of a sail, usually by folding or rolling one edge of the canvas in on itself...5 KB (631 words) - 08:35, 6 August 2024
- Boom (sailing) (redirect from Boom (sail))sail is rolled up into the boom for storage or reefing (shortening sail). The forward end of the boom attaches to a mast just below the sail, with a joint...15 KB (1,963 words) - 03:08, 10 October 2024
- 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...36 KB (3,937 words) - 18:43, 9 October 2024
- Sailing ship (redirect from Sail ship)Sail plans A sailing ship is a sea-going vessel that uses sails mounted on masts to harness the power of wind and propel the vessel. There is a variety...75 KB (7,913 words) - 11:45, 23 October 2024
- fitted with roller reefing or roller furling. The stay or the luff spar to which the sail is fixed is rotated (usually by a control line on a drum fitted just...2 KB (331 words) - 23:50, 4 September 2024
- plan, for example with a performance sloop one may consider the following about its suit of sails: Mainsail: Lazy jacks, reefing points and battens Jib:...8 KB (861 words) - 01:11, 25 September 2023
- reef. The mill must be stopped in order to adjust the reefing of the sail. Furled First reef (Medieval style sail) Sword point Dagger point Full sail...12 KB (1,476 words) - 08:45, 27 May 2024
- Solar sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...98 KB (11,565 words) - 11:49, 2 November 2024
- The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres...119 KB (11,711 words) - 05:44, 10 November 2024
- as a bend). The reef knot is at least 4,000 years old. The name "reef knot" dates from at least 1794 and originates from its common use to reef sails, that...11 KB (1,379 words) - 12:42, 29 September 2024
- Sail rigs A sail is a tensile structure, which is made from fabric or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including...56 KB (6,006 words) - 11:21, 20 September 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
- kind of knot Reefing, an action performed on sails to reduce the area on which the wind can act The Reef (disambiguation) Wreath This disambiguation page...970 bytes (158 words) - 20:29, 11 June 2023
- The Reef is a 2010 Australian survival horror film, written, directed and produced by Andrew Traucki in his second feature film (the first being Black...14 KB (1,565 words) - 21:19, 30 September 2024
- Midshipman (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)able to splice ropes, reef a sail, work a ship in sailing and shift his tides. In navigation, he was expected to be able to keep a reckoning of the ship's...80 KB (8,178 words) - 17:08, 12 November 2024
- Kingman Reef (/ˈkɪŋmən/) is a largely submerged, uninhabited, triangle-shaped reef, geologically an atoll, 9.0 nmi (20 km) east-west and 4.5 nmi (8 km)...25 KB (2,696 words) - 20:10, 22 October 2024
- Lateen (redirect from Lateen sail)A 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...20 KB (2,495 words) - 15:15, 31 October 2024
- On a square rigged sailing vessel, a topgallant sail (topgallant alone pronounced "t'gallant", topgallant sail pronounced "t'garns'l", is the square-rigged...1 KB (151 words) - 13:05, 30 June 2024
- for the Sea by Lydia Sigourney "Reef Sails" 624678Poems for the Sea — "Reef Sails"Lydia Sigourney "REEF SAILS." I saw a bark, with streamers gay O'er
- of him and tumbles down a cliff] Well, she's dead. Chief Tui: NO ONE goes beyond the REEF! [While trying to sail beyond the reef into the open sea, Moana
- The square knot aka reef knot is a common and simple binding knot. To tie a reef knot, tie a left-handed overhand knot and then a right-handed overhand