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A sloop's headsail may be masthead-rigged or fractional-rigged. On a masthead-rigged sloop, the forestay (on which the headsail is carried) attaches at the top of the mast. On a fractional-rigged sloop, the forestay attaches to the mast at a point below the top. A sloop may use a bowsprit, a spar that projects forward from the bow.
The masthead rig has larger and more headsails, and a smaller mainsail, compared to the fractional rig. The major advantage a masthead sloop has over a fractional one, is that the jib is larger. Since the jib has no mast in front of it to cause turbulent airflow over it, it is considered much more efficient than the main, especially for sailing ...
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USS Growler (1812 sloop) USS Hamilton (1812), foundered 8 August 1813, 42 killed; USS Hornet (1775), captured 27 April 1777; USS Hornet (1805 sloop) USS Hornet (1805 brig), foundered with the loss of all hands 10 September 1829; USS Independence (1776 sloop), wrecked 24 April 1778; USS Jamestown (1844) USS Julia (1863)
The Paceship PY 26 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim.It has a masthead sloop rig with a keel-stepped mast, a raked stem, a near-vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel.
USS Trumbull, the third United States Navy ship to bear the name, was an 18-gun sloop-of-war that took part of the so-called Quasi-War between the United States and France, between 1800 and 1801. Construction
The Bermuda sloop became the predominant type of sailing vessel both in the Bermudian colony and among sloop rigs worldwide as Bermudian traders visited foreign nations. . Soon, shipbuilding became one of the primary trades on the island and ships were exported throughout the English colonies on the American seaboard, in the West Indies, and eventually to Eur
The maritime history of the United States goes back to the first successful English colony was established in 1607, on the James River at Jamestown.It languished for decades until a new wave of settlers arrived in the late 17th century and set up commercial agriculture based on exports of tobacco to England.