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A spinnaker is a special type of sail that is designed specifically for sailing off the wind from a reaching course to a downwind, i.e. with the wind 90°–180° off the bow. The spinnaker fills with wind and balloons out in front of the boat when it...
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| x Jib |
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A jib (also spelled jibb) is a triangular staysail set ahead of the foremast of a sailing boat. Its tack is fixed to the bowsprit, to the bow, or to the deck between the bowsprit and the foremost mast. Jibs and spinnakers are the two main types of...
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| x Topsail |
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A topsail is a sail set above another sail; on square-rigged vessels further sails may be set above topsails.
On a square rigged vessel, a topsail is a square sail rigged above the course sail and below the topgallant sail where carried. A full...
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| x Course |
In sailing, a course sail is the principal sail on a mast.
This term is used predominantly on square rigged vessels, referring to the largest and lowest sail on each mast (mizzen-course, main-course and fore-course). Gaff-rigged vessels might...
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| x Headsail |
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A headsail of a sailing vessel is any sail set forward of the foremost mast. The most common headsails are staysails, a term that includes jibs and the larger genoa. Other headsails are set independently of any forestays, such as the spinnaker.
Some...
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| x Genoa |
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The genoa or jenny was originally referred to as the 'overlapping jib' or the Genoa jib, being named after the city of Genoa as explained below. It is a type of large jib used on bermuda rigged craft, commonly the single-masted sloop and twin-masted...
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| x Code 0 |
Specialty racing sail which is cross between a spinnaker and a genoa.
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| x Gennaker |
A gennaker is a cross between a Genoa jib and a spinnaker (thus the name). It is similar to the more recently developed and larger Code 0.
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| x Studding sail |
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A studding sail or studsail is a sail used to increase the sail area of a square rigged vessel in light winds. Traditionally pronounced stuns'l.
It is an extra sail hoisted alongside a square-rigged sail on an extension of its yardarm. It is named...
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| x Topgallant sail |
On a square rigged sailing vessel, a topgallant sail (pronounced "t'gallant") is the square-rigged sail or sails immediately above the topsail or topsails. It is also known as a gallant or garrant sail.
Later full rigged ships split the topsail (and...
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| x Mainsail |
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A mainsail is the most important sail raised from the main (or only) mast of a sailing vessel.
On a square rigged vessel, it is the lowest and largest sail on the main mast.
On a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, it is the lowest and largest and often the...
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| x Lateen |
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A lateen (from French latine, meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction.
Dating back to Roman navigation, the lateen became the favourite sail of...
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| x Fisherman's staysail |
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A fisherman's staysail is a staysail placed between the fore and main masts of a schooner. It is four-sided, all four of which are typically set flying. The purpose of a fisherman is to catch light winds aloft, as it is a large sail set high on the...
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| x Crab claw sail |
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The crab claw sail or, as it is sometimes known, Oceanic lateen or Oceanic sprit, is a triangular sail with spars along upper and lower edges. The crab claw sail is used in many traditional Pacific Ocean cultures, as can be seen by the traditional...
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| x Driver |
A driver is a kind of sail used on some sailboats. Smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square rigger, a driver is tied to the same spars.
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| x Extra |
In sailing, an extra is a sail that is not part of the working sail plan.
The most common extra is the spinnaker. Other extras include studding sails, the modern spanker (or tallboy), and some staysails and topsails.
In yacht racing, there are often...
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| x Moonsail |
A moonsail, also known as a moonraker, hope-in-heaven, or hopesail, is a sail flown immediately above the skysail (see sail-plan) on the very top of the royal mast on large, square rigged sailing ships of the clipper era. None of the four- and five...
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| x Royal |
A royal is a small sail flown immediately above the topgallant on square rigged sailing ships. It was originally called the "topgallant royal" and was used in light and favorable winds.
Royal sails were normally found only on larger ships with masts...
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| x Spanker |
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A spanker is either of two kinds of sail.
On a square rigged ship, the spanker is a gaff rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast. Almost all square rigs with more than one mast have one or two spankers, which evolved from the...
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| x Spritsail |
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The spritsail is a form of three or four-sided, fore-aft sail and its rig. Unlike the gaff where the head hangs from a spar along its edge, this rig supports the leech of the sail by means of a spar or spars named a sprit. The forward end of the...
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| x Staysail |
A staysail is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast.
Most staysails are triangular, however some are four...
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| x Trysail |
A trysail is small fore-and-aft sail used in very high winds or in storms to maintain control, to avoid ship damage, and to keep the bow to the wind. It is hoisted abaft the mainmast (taking the place of the much larger mainsail).
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