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Bermuda rig, Bermudian rig, or Marconi rig is a type of sailing rig that uses a triangular sail set abaft (behind) the mast. It is the typical configuration for most modern sailboats. It is the typical configuration for most modern sailboats.
The Bermuda Fitted Dinghy is a type of racing-dedicated sail boat used for competitions between the yacht clubs of Bermuda. Although the class has only existed for about 130 years, the boats are a continuance of a tradition of boat and ship design in Bermuda that stretches back to the earliest decades of the 17th century.
Bermuda sloops at anchor and under sail. The Bermuda sloop is a historical type of fore-and-aft rigged single-masted sailing vessel developed on the islands of Bermuda in the 17th century. Such vessels originally had gaff rigs with quadrilateral sails, but evolved to use the Bermuda rig with triangular sails.
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.
A square-rig mainsail is a square sail attached at the bottom of the main mast. A Bermuda-rig mainsail is a triangular sail with the luff attached to the mast with the foot or lower edge generally attached to a boom. A gaff-rig mainsail is a quadrilateral sail whose head is supported by a gaff.
The rig count is a crucial gauge of activity in the energy industry. The number of rigs actively drilling for oil and gas serves as a leading indicator of demand for products and services used in ...
GP14 from astern. The GP14 is a wooden or fibreglass hulled double-handed fractional Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy designed by Jack Holt in 1949.. The class is active in the UK, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and parts of the north-eastern USA.
Feb. 23—The rig count in the Permian Basin was up two this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 314 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 353 rigs were active in the region.