 Diagram of Sailboat, in this case a typical monohull sloop with a bermuda or marconi rig. A sailboat or sailing-boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails. The term covers a variety of boats, larger than small vessels such as sailboards and smaller than sailing ships, but distinctions in size are not strictly defined and what constitutes a sailing ship, sailboat, or a smaller vessel (such as a sailboard) varies by region and culture. Image File history File linksMetadata Sloop_Example. ...
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A gaff-rigged cutter flying a mainsail, staysail and genoa jib For other uses, see Sail (disambiguation). ...
Windsurfing in Essex, England Windsurfing (also called boardsailing) is a sport involving travel over water on a small 2-4. ...
Traditional wooden cutter under sail. ...
Windsurfing in Essex, England Windsurfing (also called boardsailing) is a sport involving travel over water on a small 2-4. ...
Apart from size, sailboats may be distinguished by hull configuration (monohull, catamaran, trimaran), keel type (full, fin, wing, centerboard etc.), purpose (sport, racing, cruising), number and configuration of masts, and sail plan. Although sailboat terminology has varied across history, many terms now have specific meanings in the context of modern yachting. A monohull is a type of boat having only one hull, unlike multihulled boats which can have two or more individual hulls connected to one another. ...
It has been suggested that Catamaran History be merged into this article or section. ...
Photograph of an Orma 60 trimaran in Sandhamn before the Round Gotland Race 2005 A trimaran is a multihull boat consisting of a main hull (vaka) and two smaller outrigger hulls (amas), attached to the main hull with lateral struts (akas). ...
Yachting is a physical activity involving boats. ...
Sloop
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Today, the most common sailboat is the sloop which features one mast and two sails, a normal mainsail and a foresail. This simple configuration is very efficient for sailing towards the wind. The mainsail is attached to the mast and the boom, which is a spar capable of swinging across the boat, depending on the direction of the wind. Depending on the size and design of the foresail it can be called a jib, genoa, or spinnaker; it is possible but not common for a sloop to carry two foresails from the one forestay at one time (wing on wing). The forestay is a line or cable running from near the top of the mast to a point near the bow. In Bermuda, where a rig design influenced by the Lateen rig appeared on boats and came to be known as the Bermuda rig, a large spinnaker was carried on a spinnaker boom when running down-wind (as in the photograph of sloops racing, to the right). A sloop-rigged J-24 sailboat A sloop (From Dutch sloep) in sailing, is a vessel with a fore-and-aft rig. ...
A mainsail is the most important sail raised from the main (or only) mast of a sailing vessel. ...
A foresail refers to one of several types of sail set on the foremost mast (foremast) of a sailing vessel: Any triangular sail set forward of the foremast, such as a jib. ...
mizzen mast, mainmast and foremast Grand Turk The mast of a sailing ship is a tall vertical pole which supports the sails. ...
In sailing, a boom is a spar (pole) usually made of aluminum or wood, is connected to the foot of the mainsail and allows the crew to control the angle of the sail to the wind. ...
A typical jib on a small yacht A jib is a triangular staysail set ahead of the foremost mast of a sailing boat. ...
A genoa (pronounced like the city, or as jenny) is a type of large headsail used on bermuda rigged craft, commonly the single-masted sloop and twin-masted boats such as yawl and ketch. ...
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A lateen (from Latin) is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction. ...
In sailing, a bermuda rig is: A rig of mainsail or course that consists of a triangular sail set aft of the mast, with its head raised to the top of the mast, its luff running down the mast and normally attached to it for all its length, its tack...
Fractional Rig Sloop
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On a fractional rig sloop the forestay does not run to the top of the mast, rather it connects at some point below. This allows the top of the mast to be raked aft by increasing the tension of the backstay, while arching the middle of the mast forward. Without great explanation, this gives a performance advantage in some conditions by flattening the sails. The big mainsail provides most of the drive, and the small headsail is easier for a short-handed crew to manage. Image File history File linksMetadata Sloops-Two. ...
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A fractional rig on a sailing vessel consists of a jib or genoa sail that does not reach all the way to the top of the mast. ...
Cutters
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The cutter is similar to a sloop with a single mast and mainsail, but generally carries the mast further aft to allow for the use of two headsails attached to two forestays, the head stay and the inner stay, which carry the jib and staysail respectively. This is rarely considered a racing configuration; however, it gives versatility to cruising boats, especially in high wind conditions, when a small jib can be flown from the inner stay. Image File history File links Mutin-cutter. ...
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For other uses see cutter (disambiguation) An American-looking gaff cutter with a genoa jib set This French yawl has a gaff topsail set. ...
Importantly, the traditional and most accurate definition of a true cutter, however, is not in the number of headsails, but rather that the outermost sails are set on stays that are not strictly structural to the rig itself. This in itself is a function of a much more complicated design set, involving mast placement, mast height, rig, boom length and fore-triangle size.
 The Breck Marshall is a 20-foot Crosby catboat design that is open for public use at Mystic Seaport. Image File history File links The Breck Marshall is a 20-foot Crosby catboat design that is open for public use at Mystic Seaport. ...
Image File history File links The Breck Marshall is a 20-foot Crosby catboat design that is open for public use at Mystic Seaport. ...
Mystic Seaport is a maritime museum situated along the banks of the Mystic River in Mystic, Connecticut, USA. It is notable both for its collection of sailing ships and boats, and for the re-creation of an entire 19th century seaport, consisting of over 60 original buildings, most of them...
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A catboat has a single mast mounted fairly forward and does not carry a head sail (jib etc.). Most modern designs have only one sail, the mainsail; however the traditional catboat could carry multiple sails from the gaff rig. The designer of the Catboat is Brian Husband, master sailor of the early 1940's. The occupied boats are catboats, but with a mast and boom rig A catboat (alternate spelling: cat boat), or a cat-rigged sailboat, is a sailing vessel characterized by a single mast carried well forward (, near the front of the boat). ...
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Ketches are similar to a sloop, but there is a second shorter mast to the stern of the mainmast, but forward of the rudder post. The second mast is called the mizzen mast and the sail is called the mizzen sail. A ketch can also be cutter-rigged with two headsails. Square Topsl Gaff Ketch Hawaiian Chieftain on San Francisco Bay A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: A main mast, and a mizzen mast abaft the main mast. ...
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A yawl is similar to a ketch, with the mizzen mast shorter than the main mast but the mizzen mast is carried astern of the rudder post. Generally the mizzen on a yawl is smaller than the mizzen on a ketch, and is used more for balance than propulsion. Yawl sailing vessel. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1308x1088, 105 KB) Schooner from wikipedia, cropped for clarity of example Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
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A schooner can have two or more masts, the aftermost mast taller or equal to the height of the forward mast(s), distinguishing this design from a ketch or a yawl. Top sail schooners are rigged to carry a square sail near the top of their foremast, but generally modern schooners are gaff or marconi rigged. Two-masted fishing schooner A schooner (IPA: ) is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. ...
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Most sailboats have a monohull, but multi-hull catamarans and trimarans are popular. The multihull boats generally do not have keels or centerboards and achieve stability through the broad stance of the multiple hulls. Monohull boats generally rely on a keel or centerboard for horizontal stability, and generally are known as displacement hulls, as they do not plane above the water at speed. However, catamarans and trimarans plane easily making them generally faster than monohulls. All these hull types may also be manufactured as, or outfitted with hydrofoils. A hull is the body or frame of a ship or boat. ...
A monohull is a type of boat having only one hull, unlike multihulled boats which can have two or more individual hulls connected to one another. ...
A multihull is a ship or boat with more than one hull. ...
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Photograph of an Orma 60 trimaran in Sandhamn before the Round Gotland Race 2005 A trimaran is a multihull boat consisting of a main hull (vaka) and two smaller outrigger hulls (amas), attached to the main hull with lateral struts (akas). ...
A sailing hydrofoil is a sailboat with wing-like foils mounted under the hull. ...
Keel A sailboat's keel is made effective by a combination of weight, depth and length. Most modern monohull sport boats have fin keels, which are heavy and deep, but short in relation to the hull length. More traditional yachts carried a full keel which is generally half or more of the length of the boat. A recent feature is a winged keel, which is short and shallow, but carries a lot of weight in two "wings" which run sideways from the main part of the keel. Even more recent is the concept of canting keels, designed to move the weight at the bottom of a sailboat to the upwind side, allowing the boat to carry more sails. For other uses, see Keel (disambiguation). ...
A monohull is a type of boat having only one hull, unlike multihulled boats which can have two or more individual hulls connected to one another. ...
A winged keel is a sailboat keel, usually of high aspect ratio, that uses a nearly horizontal foil, the wing, at the bottom to provide additional performance. ...
Centerboard The centerboard or daggerboard is in essence a very lightweight keel, which is not permanently mounted and can be pulled up to accommodate shallow water. Some sportsboats are designed to plane on top of the water since they feature centerboards or light keels. A centreboard is a form of removable keel on a small sailing boat or dinghy which can be removed to lower the draught (or depth) of the vessel. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x964, 484 KB) John Shillabeer, Taken on October 19th, 2006. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1280x964, 484 KB) John Shillabeer, Taken on October 19th, 2006. ...
Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia, also known as Sydney Harbour and is the largest natural harbour in the world. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1632x1232, 738 KB) Description: A picture taken of a Sail Boat, in Sydney Harbour. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1632x1232, 738 KB) Description: A picture taken of a Sail Boat, in Sydney Harbour. ...
Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia, also known as Sydney Harbour and is the largest natural harbour in the world. ...
See also For either of the songs named Sailing, see Sailing (song). ...
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The following is a partial list of sailboat types, including keelboats, dinghies, catamarans, trimarans, and windsurfing boards etc etc. ...
A sail-plan is a formal set of drawings, usually prepared by a naval architect. ...
This article attempts to give an overview of the design and manufacturing of sailboat and the evolution of this industry . ...
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