Square (sailing)
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Sailing — is the art of controlling a sailing vessel. By changing the rigging, rudder and dagger or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to change the direction and speed of a boat. Mastery of the skill requires… … Wikipedia
Sailing ship — is now used to refer to any large wind powered vessel. In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a specific rig of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making the sailing adjective redundant. In popular usage ship became … Wikipedia
Sailing Ship Columbia — Disneyland Land Frontierland Designer Joe Fowler Ray Wallace … Wikipedia
Square rig — is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular, or [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/square#Adjective square] , to the keel of the vessel and to the masts … Wikipedia
Sailing Ship Columbia Riverboat — Sailing Ship Columbia Le Sailing Ship Columbia est un bateau servant d attraction dans le parc Disneyland en Californie. C est une réplique grandeur nature du ship sloop (version anglo américaine des corvettes du XVIIIe siècle) USS Columbia … Wikipédia en Français
square-rigged — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ (of a sailing ship) having the principal sails at right angles to the length of the ship … English terms dictionary
Sailing faster than the wind — Devices that are powered by sails (such as sailboats, iceboats and sand yachts) can sail (that is, advance over the surface) faster than the wind.[1] Such devices cannot do this when sailing dead downwind using simple square sails that are set… … Wikipedia
square sails — Sail Sail, n. [OE. seil, AS. segel, segl; akin to D. zeil, OHG. segal, G. & Sw. segel, Icel. segl, Dan. seil. [root] 153.] 1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sailing Ship Columbia — Le Sailing Ship Columbia est un bateau servant d attraction dans le parc Disneyland en Californie. C est une réplique grandeur nature du ship sloop (version anglo américaine des corvettes du XVIIIe siècle) USS Columbia, le premier vaisseau… … Wikipédia en Français
square-rigger — noun a square rigged sailing ship • Hypernyms: ↑sailing vessel, ↑sailing ship … Useful english dictionary
