For now well concentrate on the main and the jib.

Yacht sails types. Results will yield both new and used inventory please refer to condition codes. Ad Hall of Fame boat dealer with a full line of Cobalt Boats offering salesservice storage. Gaff rig is a sailing rig configuration of sails in which a sail is a four-cornered fore-and-aft rigged sail controlled at its peak and usually entire head by a spar pole called the gaff.

Among the most beloved daysailers are those that hark back to an earlier age. To gaff rig the main would move it up and back behind the main mast. The main and the jib.

A three-masted Italian vessel from the 19th century setting lateen sails on the main and mizzenmast and square sails on the foremast. To rig the foresail as a Marconi would also move the CE aft but lower it unless you raised the mast hight. Clockwise from top the Melonseed skiff Paine 14 NorseBoat 125 and the Com-Pac Picnic Cat.

A dinghy is a relatively common sailboat owing to its short overall length and ease of manoeuvring. The sailing yacht designs listed below are arranged in order of their size from the largest at over 164 feet a traditional plank on frame wooden ketch to the smallest at 8 feet an aluminum sailing pram. This includes North Sails proprietary 3Di composite sails which cannot be used on classic yachts but represent the best solution for the SOT philosophy.

Choose either boat type or sail luff length but not both 3. North Sails designers and sailmakers and designers know what to do to combine the best features of both worlds. If you do not see a used sail on the results it is because we dont have one.

The two types of sails By and large youll only have to deal with two kinds of sails. Ad Hall of Fame boat dealer with a full line of Cobalt Boats offering salesservice storage. The transition from the two spars of the Gunter rig to the single Bermuda spar is a natural development.