- Look up
lateen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
lateen (from
French latine,
meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a
triangular sail set on a long yard...
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sometimes known as the
Oceanic lateen or the
Oceanic sprit, even
though it is not
restricted to Oceania, is
neither a
lateen sail nor a spritsail, and has an...
- rigs. The date of
introduction of
these later Austronesian sails is disputed.
Lateen sails emerged by
around the 2nd
century CE in the Mediterranean....
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incorrectly referred to as
lateen sail or
simply square sail. Also
called tanjaq, tanjak, tanja', tanjong, or
tanjung sail. The
Mandar people call it...
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rigged sails, gaff
rigged sails, gaff
sails,
gunter rig,
lateen sails, lug
sails,
tanja sails, the
spanker sail on a
square rig and crab claw
sails. Fore-and-aft...
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explore along the West
African coast and into the
Atlantic Ocean. The
lateen sails gave it
speed and the
capacity for
sailing windward (beating). Caravels...
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describe the lug
sail as an
intermediate step
towards the
lateen sail, as used in the
Indian Ocean.
There is
speculation that the
lateen may have evolved...
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include both
square sails and such fore-and-aft
quadrilateral sails as lug rigs, junk and
spritsails and such
triangular sails as the
lateen, and the crab claw...
- dinghy. It
features a very flat,
boardlike hull
carrying an
Oceanic lateen sail mounted to an un-sta**** mast.
Sunfish was
developed by Alcort, Inc. and...
- ship with a
shallow draft,
powered both by oars and
sail, with a
single mast
carrying a
lateen sail; a
favorite of
North African corsairs during the 16th...
