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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Xebec | | | |  Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Square rig - Types of square rig
Square rig - Principally square rigged types.
A barque has three or more masts, with the aftermost entirely fore-and-aft rigged, while the fore, main and any others are square rigged.
A brig has two masts, both square rigged.
A full rigged ship has three or more masts, including a foremast, mainmast and mizzen, and all masts are square rigged.
A sloop has only one mast.
All the above rigs normally carry a number of jibs and at least one spanker, and may al ...
See also:Square rig, Square rig - Types of square rig, Square rig - Principally square rigged types, Square rig - Fore-and-aft rigs with some square rigged sails, Square rig - Ranks and Duties of Officers and Sailors, Square rig - Other Types Read more here: » Square rig: Encyclopedia II - Square rig - Types of square rig |
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| | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Sharpie boat - Description Sharpies are long, narrow sailboats with flat bottoms, extremely shallow draft, centerboards and straight, flaring sides. They are believed to have originated in the New Haven, Connecticut region of Long Island Sound, United States, for the oystering industry, which thrived in New Haven harbor with its wide, shallow waters.
The type is believed to have evolved from the Native American dugout canoes that were originally used in the area. European setters altered the original dugout form so that the sides and bottom were flat, ...
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| | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Proa - Modern developments One of the first documented Western versions of the traditional proa was built in 1898 by Commodore Ralph M. Munroe of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club. Over the following years he built several more. They were all destroyed by the mid-1930s, when a severe hurricane leveled Munroe's bayside boatshop.
Munroe used a symmetric, slightly rockered flat bottomed hull, but otherwise followed the general layout of the Micronesian proa.
Munroe had to interpret the widely distributed and incorrect plan drawing from about 1748, made during Adm ...
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| | | | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Catboat - Description A catboat (alternate spelling: cat boat), or a cat-rigged sailboat, is a sailing vessel characterized by a single mast carried well forward (i.e., near the front of the boat).
Although any boat with a single sail and a mast carried well forward is 'technically' a catboat, the traditional catboat has a wide beam approximately half the length of the boat, a centerboard, and a single gaff-rigged sail. Some catboats such as the Barnegat Bay type and more modern catboat designs carry a Bermuda sail. A jib is sometimes added, but this may require a bowsprit, and ...
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| | | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Ship - Measuring ships One can measure ships in terms of overall length, length of the waterline, beam (breadth), depth (distance between the crown of the weather deck and the top of the keelson), draft (distance between the highest waterline and the bottom of the ship) and tonnage. A number of different tonnage definitions exist; most measure volume rather than weight, and are used when describing merchant ships for the purpose of tolls, taxation, etc.
In Britain until the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876, ship-owners could load their vessels until their deck ...
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| | | | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Dinghy - Essential hardware A dinghy should have a strong ring on the bow, bolted through the keel in such a way that it will not damage the yacht's deck when the dinghy is inverted on deck. The ring is used for securing the painter (the line that anchors the boat to a dock), towing, and anchoring. Additionally, the dinghy should also have two other rings (one on each side of the stern transom) which, with the bow ring, are used for ...
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| | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Multihull - Issues with multihulls Multihulls' width is often an issue, especially when docking. They are also more expensive to produce than a monohull of the same length.
Unfortunately, it is common wisdom (among monohull sailors, at least) that in the open ocean, multihull craft are unsafe. If a storm or wave capsizes a small monohull, it may recover, if it does not broach and sink. The rigging will probably be severely damaged, but the crew will be able to jury-rig and reach a port. Multihulls can capsize but they rarely sink. Even most rescued crews (in races) hav ...
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| | | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Proa - Size and sail plan The Micronesian proa is found in a a variety of sizes, from the small, canoe-like kor-kor (about 15 feet in length) to the medium sized tipnol (20 to 30 feet), to the tremendous walap, up to 100 feet (30 m) long. There is also a model proa, called a riwut, that is often raced by children. Proas could be paddled or sailed. The traditional sail used on the proa was the crab-claw sail. The crab-claw sail generates far more lift than the more common triangular sloop sails used on small boats, particularly when reaching. The sloop sail only begin ...
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| | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Sloop - Sails carried To maximize the amount of sail carried, the classical sloop may use a bowsprit, which is essentially a fixed boom that projects from the front of the boat. For downwind sailing, the staysail may be replaced (or sometimes supplemented) by a spinnaker or gennaker of larger sail area. The jib foresail, which does not overlap the mast, may be replaced by a genoa jib, which overlaps the mast by up to 50%, the mainsail and Genoa thus forming an efficient double wing.
Sloop - History.
The term sloop referred to boats with different rigs an ...
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| | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Sharpie boat - Modern sharpies In recent years, the sharpie, as with many traditional American small craft, has enjoyed renewed interest as designers and sailors have sought boats with the virtues of shallow draft. However, most are homebuilt or of one-off construction. Exceptions include Bruce Kirby's Norwalk Islands series of sharpies or Phil Bolger's Dovekie.
Because of the design, the type has limitations that prevent mass-production in fiberglass. Fiberglass, by its nature, is stronger when used for compound curves. The flat bottom and sides of a sharpi ...
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| | | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Proa - Other Western Interpretations In a non-traditional variant, first seen among Western yacht racers, the "Atlantic proa" has an ama is always to the lee side to provide buoyancy for stability, rather than ballast as in a traditional proa. Because the Atlantic ama is at least as long as the main hull, this style can be thought of as a catamaran with a fat hull and a skinny hull, that shunts rather than tacking.
Other modern variants of the proa place the bulk of the passenger accommodations on the ama, in an attempt to make the vaka as streamlined as possible.
The terms ...
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| | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Ship - Propulsion Until the application of the steam engine to ships in the early 19th century, oars propelled galleys or the wind propelled sailing ships.
Before mechanisation, merchant ships always used sail, but as long as naval warfare depended on ships closing to ram or to fight hand-to-hand, galleys dominated in marine conflicts because of their maneuverability and speed. The Greek navies that fought in the Peloponnesian War used triremes, as did the Romans contesting the Battle of Actium. The use of large numbers of cannon from the 16th century meant that maneuverability took second place to broadside weight; this led to the dom ...
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| | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Multihull - Popular multihulls There are many types of multihulls in different categories. Among the small sailing catamarans, also called beach catamarans, the most recognized racing classes are the Hobie Cat 16, Formula 18 cats, A-cats and the olympic multihull called Tornado.
Larger boats include Corsair Marine (mid-sized trimarans), and Privilege (large, luxurious catamarans). But also the much larger French trimarans of the ORMA racing cirquit and roun ...
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| | | | | Xebec: Encyclopedia II - Ship - General terminology Ships may occur collectively as fleets, flotillas or squadrons. Convoys of ships commonly occur.
A collection of ships for military purposes may compose a navy or a task force.
In the past, people counting or grouping disparate types of ship may refer to the individual vessels as bottoms. Groups of sailing ships could constitute, say, a fleet of 40 sail. Groups of submarines (particularly German U-boats in the 1940s) may hunt in packs ( ...
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