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  2. Brig - Wikipedia

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    A brig's square-rig also had the advantage over a fore-and-aft–rigged vessel when travelling offshore, in the trade winds, where vessels sailed down wind for extended distances and where "the danger of a sudden jibe was the large schooner-captain's nightmare". [13] This trait later led to the evolution of the barquentine. The need for large ...

  3. Brigantine - Wikipedia

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    A brigantine is a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast). [1] The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts.

  4. List of ship types - Wikipedia

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    A Mediterranean sailing ship, typically three-masted, lateen-rigged and powered also by oars, with a characteristic overhanging bow and stern Yacht A recreational boat or ship, sail or powered Yawl A yawl is a two masted, fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with the mizzen mast positioned abaft (behind) the rudder stock

  5. Schooner - Wikipedia

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    Lewis R. French, a gaff-rigged schooner Oosterschelde, a topsail schooner Orianda, a staysail schooner, with Bermuda mainsail. A schooner (/ ˈ s k uː n ər / SKOO-nər) [1] is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.

  6. Full-rigged ship - Wikipedia

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    Such a vessel is said to have a ship rig or be ship-rigged, with each mast stepped in three segments: lower, top, and topgallant. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Other large, multi-masted sailing vessels may be regarded as "ships" while lacking one of the elements of a full-rigged ship, such as having one or more masts support only a fore-and-aft sail or a ...

  7. List of schooners - Wikipedia

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    Tourism/charter vessel 2 masted gaff [16] Argo: 2006 Road Town, Tortola: Education/sail training vessel 2 masted Marconi/ staysail [17] Atalanta: 1901 Wismar: Education/sail training and charter vessel 2 masted gaff [18] Athos: 2010: World's largest two-mast schooner at launch: 2-mast Bermuda: Atlantic: 2010 Douglas, Isle of Man

  8. Gálveztown (brig sloop) - Wikipedia

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    The coat of arms of Bernardo de Gálvez was augmented with a depiction of the brigantine Galveztown by a spanish royal decree in 1783 [3]. The vessel, described as a two-masted brigantine, square-rigged on the foremast, with fore-and-aft sails on the mainmast, [4] was originally commissioned as a 14-gun cutter named West Florida [5] after being built by the British in New England, and later ...

  9. Yawl - Wikipedia

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    The term has several meanings. It can apply to the rig (or sailplan), to the hull type or to the use which the vessel is put. As a rig, a yawl is a two masted, fore and aft rigged sailing vessel with the mizzen mast positioned abaft (behind) the rudder stock, or in some instances, very close to the