Definitions

1. With square sails, the sheets run through each yard-arm. (Web site)

Booms

1. Light sails set outside the square sails, on booms rigged out for that purpose. (Web site)

Mast

1. Her rig is barquentine with fore and aft sails on all except the forward most mast which has 3 square sails.

Sail

1. The highest-thrust to mass designs for ground-assembled deployable structures are square sails with the masts and guy lines on the dark side of the sail. (Web site)

Buntline Hitch

1. Uses: The Buntline Hitch (ABOK # 1847, p 310) was originally employed to secure the buntlines to the foot of the square sails.

Three Masts

1. In nautical history terms, a ship specifically signifies a three-masted sailing vessel with square sails on all three masts.

Lower Corners

1. Clew – The lower corners of square sails or the corner of a triangular sail at the end of the boom. (Web site)

Square Sails

1. Clew-lines - Used to truss up the clews, the lower corners of square sails.
2. These may be either square sails or fore-and-aft ones, in which case they often "fill in" between the mast and the gaff of the sail below.
3. In modern parlance, a brigantine is a vessel whose forward mast is rigged with square sails, while her after mast is rigged fore-and-aft.

Categories

1. Lower Corners
2. Triangular Sail
3. Forward Mast
4. Clews
5. Three Masts
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