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Gunter rig is a
configuration of sail and
spars used in sailing. It is a fore and aft sail set
abaft (behind) the mast. The
lower half of the luff (front)...
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Topsails are
never carried on
gunter rigs. The
spritsail is
another rig with a four-sided fore-aft sail.
Unlike the gaff
rig where the head
hangs from a...
- sail
rig which resembles a gaff
rig, with the gaff
nearly vertical, is
called a
Gunter rig, or "sliding
gunter" from its
resemblance to a
Gunter's rule...
- a type of fore-and-aft
rig. The
mainsail may be of any type, most
often Bermuda rig, but also others, such as gaff or
gunter. In
naval terminology, "sloop-of-war"...
- A full-
rigged ship or
fully rigged ship is a
sailing vessel with a sail plan of
three or more masts, all of them square-
rigged. Such a
vessel is said...
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Square rig is a
generic type of sail and
rigging arrangement in
which a
sailing vessel's
primary driving sails are
carried on
horizontal spars that are...
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sailing vessel's
rig is its
arrangement of masts,
sails and rigging.
Examples include a
schooner rig,
cutter rig, junk
rig, etc. A
rig may be
broadly categorized...
- Look up
Gunter or
gunter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Gunter or
Günter may
refer to:
Gunter rig, a type of
sailing rig,
especially in
small boats...
- mainmast, and any
additional masts are
rigged square, and only the
aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) is
rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen...
- square-rigged vessel. Fore-and-aft
rigged sails include staysails,
Bermuda rigged sails, gaff
rigged sails,
gunter rig,
lateen sails, lug sails,
tanja sails...
