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  2. Sunfish (sailboat) - Wikipedia

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    The Sunfish is a personal-size, beach-launched sailing dinghy.It features a very flat, boardlike hull carrying an Oceanic lateen sail mounted to an un-stayed mast.. Sunfish was developed by Alcort, Inc. and first appeared around 1952 as the "next generation" improvement on their original boat, the Sailfish.

  3. Sailfish (sailboat) - Wikipedia

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    Alcort Sailfish depicting the sit-upon sailing posture, the shallow draft hull, and the characteristic lateen rigged sail, c1963. The Sailfish sailboat is a small, hollow body, board-boat style sailing dinghy. The design is a shallow draft, sit-upon hull carrying a lateen rigged sail mounted to an un-stayed mast.

  4. LaserPerformance - Wikipedia

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    The Sunfish sailboat is a personal size, beach launched sailing dinghy utilizing a pontoon type hull carrying a lateen sail mounted to an un-stayed mast. Sunfish was developed by Alcort, Inc. and first appeared around 1952 as the "next generation" improvement on their original boat, the Sailfish .

  5. Rig (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    Rigging of a sailing frigate. A sailing vessel's rig is its arrangement of masts, sails and rigging. [1] Examples include a schooner rig, cutter rig, junk rig, etc. [2] A rig may be broadly categorized as "fore-and-aft", "square", or a combination of both. Within the fore-and-aft category there is a variety of triangular and quadrilateral sail ...

  6. Category:Sunfish (sailboat) - Wikipedia

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    Sunfish class sailing competitions (4 P) Sunfish class sailors (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Sunfish (sailboat)"

  7. Cunningham (sailing) - Wikipedia

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    In sailing, a cunningham or cunningham's eye is a type of downhaul used on a Bermuda rigged sailboat to change the shape of a sail. It is named after its inventor, Briggs Cunningham, a victorious America's Cup skipper and yacht builder. [1] The cunningham differs from a typical downhaul in the way that it attaches to the sail.

  8. Parrel beads - Wikipedia

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    The brown beads are on individual parrels that connect the luff of the sail to the mast. Parrel beads (also spelled parral [ 1 ] or parrell ) are an element of sailing rigging . They act as roller bearings on a parrel, which is a rope or wire strop that typically fastens one spar to another along which it must have some freedom of movement.

  9. Fairlead - Wikipedia

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    Adjustable fairlead (lower right) leading to winch on sailboat Fairlead (Chock style) Three mooring lines running through fairlead on a Royal New Zealand Navy ship.. A fairlead is a turning point for running rigging like rope, chain, wire or line, that guides that line such that the "lead" is "fair", and therefore low friction and low chafe. [1]