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- square rigged vessel. Fore-and-aft rigged sails include staysails, Bermuda rigged sails, gaff rigged sails, gaff sails, gunter rig, lateen sails, lug sails...
- Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually...
- Configurations differ for each type of rigging, between fore-and-aft rigged vessels and square-rigged vessels. Standing rigging is cordage which is fixed...
- 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 mast of only two segments...
- rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above. The word "barque" entered English via the...
- three or more masts, fore-and-aft rigged on only the aftermost Barquentine A sailing vessel with three or more masts, square-rigged only on the foremast...
- two square-rigged masts Brigantine with square-rigged foremast and fore-and aft mizzen Barque with two square-rigged masts and a fore-and-aft mizzen Barquentine...
- square-rigged except the sternmost, which is fore-and-aft-rigged. barquentine A sailing vessel with three or more masts, with all masts fore-and-aft-rigged except...
- SKOO-nər) 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...
- were gradually replaced by fore-and-aft rigged vessels such as schooners, as owners sought to reduce crew costs by having rigs that could be handled by...