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Sail rigs A
sail is a
tensile structure,
which is made from
fabric or
other membrane materials, that uses wind
power to
propel sailing craft, including...
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Jesse John
Sailes (December 3, 1919 –
September 5, 2007) was a jazz
drummer and
session musician who
performed on many hit
records in the 1940s and 1950s...
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William Norman "Tiny"
Sailes (25 June 1920 – 27
December 2012) was a
Fleet Air Arm
pilot of the
Second World War who was
awarded the
Distinguished Service...
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Black Sails is an
American television drama series created by Jon
Steinberg and
Robert Levine for
Starz that
debuted on
January 25, 2014. It was produced...
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Black Sails may
refer to:
Black Sails, a
subsidiary 745 m
summit of Wetherlam, a 763 m
summit in the
Coniston Fells of the Lake
District Black Sails (TV...
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Solar sails (also
known as lightsails,
light sails, and
photon sails) are a
method of
spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...
- gaff-rigged fore-and-aft
sail set from, and aft of, the
aftmost mast.
Spankers are also
called driver, jigger, and a
pusher sail. On a
schooner of four...
- a
topgallant sail (topgallant
alone pronounced "t'gallant",
topgallant sail pronounced "t'garns'l", is the square-rigged
sail or
sails immediately above...
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square sail,
canted rectangular sail,
rectangular balance lug, or
balance lug
sail in English.: 102–103 : 608 In
historical sources,
tanja sail is sometimes...
- The
settee sail was a
lateen sail with the
front corner cut off,
giving it a
quadrilateral shape. It can be
traced back to Greco-Roman
navigation in the...
