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A sailing vessel characterized by a single mast carried well forward (i.e., near the bow of the boat) Clipper A fast multiple-masted sailing ship, generally used by merchants because of their speed capabilities Coastal defense ship A vessel built for coastal defense Cog Plank built, one mast, square rigged, 12th to 14th century, superseded the ...
A Bermuda sloop, the most common version of the sloop in modern sailing vessels [1]: 52 Gaff rigged sloop, 1899. In modern usage, a sloop is a sailboat with a single mast [2] generally having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail abaft (behind) the mast. It is a type of fore-and-aft rig.
A cat-rigged vessel with a single mast mounted close to the bow and only one sail, usually on a gaff. catenary . Also catenary curve. The curve of a deployed anchor chain. [44] catharpin A short rope or iron clamp used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so as to give a freer sweep to the yards. cathead
Either of the braces attached to the yard of the mainsail (the largest and lowest sail on the mainmast) on a square-rigged vessel. mainmast. Also simply main. 1. The tallest mast on a ship [1] with more than one mast, especially the tallest mast on a full-rigged ship. 2. On a ship with more than one mast, the second mast from the bow. mainmast head
Many mast-aft rigs utilize a small mainsail and multiple staysails that can resemble some cutter rigs. A cutter is a single masted vessel, differentiated from a sloop either by the number of staysails, with a sloop having one and a cutter more than one, or by the position of the mast, with a cutter's mast being located between 50% and 70% of the way from the aft to the front of the sailplan ...
If the mast has a long, thin cross-section and makes up a significant area of the airfoil, it is called a wing-mast; boats using these have a smaller sail area to compensate for the larger mast area. There are many manufacturers of modern masts for sailing yachts of all sizes, a few notable companies are Hall Spars, Offshore Spars, and Southern ...
A fire broke out on a boat in Seward Harbor, Alaska, on February 16, leaving one person dead, according to local media reports.Firefighters who responded to the blaze said that they had discovered ...
Clark Boat Company W. D. Schock Corp Northwest One Design Great Midwest Yacht Company [163] Transit 380: 2005: Jim Taylor: Precision Boat Works [164] Twitchell 12: 1991: Ron Holder: W. D. Schock Corp [165] US1: 1973: Ralph Kuppersmith & Clark Mills: Advance Sailboat Corp. & Continental Sailcraft [166] US Sabot: 1939: Charles McGregor: Catalina ...