
	Where results make sense

Topic: Bermuda rig

Related Topics

Sheet (sailing)

Ketch rig

Mainsail

Clew

Square rig

Cunningham

Sloop

Rigging

Bermuda sloop

Yawl

Laser Radial

Schooner

Lateen

Dinghy sailing

Centerboard

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular to the keel of the vessel and to the masts.
		In their heyday, square-rigged vessels ranged in size from small boats to full rigged ships, however, today this rig has fallen from favour and the rig in common use today is one form or another of fore-and-aft gaff rigs and bermuda rigs.
		Square rigs do have their advantages, however; they are more efficient when running, where the high lift to drag is irrelevant and the total drag is the most important issue.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=square_rig (1166 words)

	Complete list of Ship Types
		The term Bermuda Rig refers to a configuration of the mast and rigging for a type of sailboat, and is also known as a Marconi rig; this is the typical configuration for most modern sailboats.
		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.
		They were lateen rigged on two or three masts, but suffered from the inevitable defects of compromise, being unable to carry the more effective square rig of the sailing ship because of the modified galley hull form and also, for the same reason, being unable to retain the speed and maneuverability of the true galley.
	www.thepirateking.com /ships/ship_types.htm (10259 words)

	MODERN SAILING RIGS - HOW THEY DIFFER
		This was the birth of the "bermuda rig", the predecessor of today's sloop rig.
		Cutter rigs are generally masthead rigs in order to get enough area forward of the mast for the second forestay and sail.
		The idea behind the rig was to contain rigging loads as much as possible within the mast structure itself and avoid loading the deck and hull.
	marina42.net /cgi-bin/p/m42p-custom.cgi?d=passage-yachts-inc&id=615 (1056 words)

	Bermuda Rig
		Originally developed for the bermuda sloop, the 'bermuda sail is either set as a mainsail on the main mast, or as the course (the principal sail) on another mast.
		A bermuda rigged sloop with exactly one jib is known as a bermuda sloop, marconi sloop or marconi rig.
		The foot of a bermuda sail may be attached to the boom along its length, or in more modern rigs the sail is attached to the boom only at its ends.
	www.boats-i.com /bermuda-rig.html (441 words)

	What's The Ideal Sailing Rig?
		If the rig is very tall, the lever arm is relatively longer from the center of lateral resistance to the center of effort of the sails, so the keel must be proportionately deeper to compensate.
		During the design process, once the preferred keel configuration and the preferred rig type are chosen, it is simply a matter of balancing them against each other in order to obtain the required lead for the sail area vs the lateral area, and to place the ballast where required for proper trim.
		One feature of the rig I tend to prefer (as with designs like Redpath) is that the working sails are sized to be as nearly alike in area as possible, so there is no single dominant sail.
	www.kastenmarine.com /gaff_rig.htm (4735 words)

	Bermuda's History from 1500 to 1699
		Bermuda was believed to have been discovered by accident by Juan de Bermudez, Captain of La Garza, a Spanish vessel, part of a Spanish fleet.
		The first Governor of Bermuda, Richard Moore, was much occupied in raising a timber watchtower on a hill overtopping the town of St. George's to the westwards, to serve for the discovery of shipping upon the coast.
		In Bermuda, the population was calculated as 2,500 white and between 300 to 400 fl and Native American.
	www.bermuda-online.org /history.htm (7287 words)

	The Sliding Gunter: A versatile Traditional Sailing Rig
		One of the main advantages of the Gunter is the use of a mast and vertical spar to achieve the same mast height and sail area as the Bermuda rig would set.
		Detractors of the Gunter rig are quick to point out that the yard falls off from the mast on a beat to the wind, creating turbulent air flow and is therefore slower than the Bermudian sail.
		The builder can rig the boat with a simple combination of mast, spar, and sail- or a carefully thought out system that is perfectly suited to his or her sailing needs.
	www.duckworksmagazine.com /04/s/articles/gunter/index.cfm (2443 words)

	Wildwood Sailing Club - Recognizing Boat Types
		The racing sailor and the average yachtsman stay with the Bermudan rig, while the gaff is favored by a few diehards and is used, of course, for character boats and replicas.
		The cat rig is certainly suitable for coastal cruising, with an eye on the weather, but I don't consider any single-masted cat rig, not even the most modern, to be a true bluewater cruiser.
		The rig is best suited to larger craft, generally of 40 feet or more, but if you like the rig and want a small schooner, go for it.
	home.golden.net /~capone1/wsc/boattype.htm (2745 words)

	Bermuda Sloop Foundation
		Bermuda was a player at the hub of this developing “Atlantic World”; her population in 1700 was one tenth of the British Colonies in North America!
		Bermuda’s foremost sailing innovation had been the “Bermuda Rig” — the attacking triangular sail that coastal Bermudian sailors had evolved since 1650 on small sloops to sail up the country from St. George’s to Somerset into the prevailing southwest wind.
		Between 1820 and 1850, they adapted the Bermuda rig onto the larger multi-masted, ocean going navy schooners (RN “Shamrock” Class) that came to be known as “Bermudians” or Ballyhou schooners.
	www.bermudasloop.org /article17.html (581 words)

	RIG - Definition
		Jack was rigged out in his gold and silver lace.
		{To rig a purchase}, to adapt apparatus so as to get a purchase for moving a weight, as with a lever, tackle, capstan, etc.
		That uncertain season before the rigs of Michaelmas were yet well composed.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/rig (319 words)

	Bermuda Vacation Package, Island Beach, Travel To Bermuda - Gateway2Discovery
		Colonized since 1612, Bermuda shares a similar history with other Atlantic islands near the American East Coast in that it imported African slaves (from America and the West Indies) to harvest tobacco and sugarcane and profited greatly from trade with the southern states during the American Civil War.
		Bermuda was sympathetic to the South and supplied the Confederates with munitions and supplies in return for bales of cotton bound for England.
		Despite its tropical climate, Bermuda can be especially formal, such as the requirement of a dinner jacket and tie at restaurants or strict adherence to traditional white on the tennis court.
	www.gateway2discovery.com /index.php?page=country&country_id=23 (1654 words)

	bermuda rig - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Bermuda rig : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		Bermuda rig : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Bermuda rig : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=bermuda+rig&ls=a (151 words)

	Revisiting a Mast-Aft Sailing Rig
		A staysail was then rigged between the masts in place of the mainsail, and the boat regained 1 knot of speed while retaining its decreased leeway.
		A ketch rig divides the sail area up into more manageable size sails, and it produces a rig with a lower center of effort (less overturning moment) than a sloop of the same sail area.
		Plus, the weight of our rig (and particularly the mast) is more favorably centered over the boat's motion center, contributing less to the vessel's pitching motion (Almost like gaining the benefits of a modern carbon mast without having to have one).
	www.boatdesign.net /articles/mast-aft-sailing-rig/index.htm (2259 words)

	archive 1
		Other rigs, such as schooner or ketches, with plenty of sail area in the working rig are much better for short-handed cruising.
		Size for size, the transition rig prototypes are not yet sophisticated enough to compete with existing rigs in terms of performance.
		This could be from wind tunnel tests, performance polars measured with competing rigs in similar conditions, or through side-by-side sailing of the same dinghy class, ballasted to the same weight, sailing with comparison rigs.
	www.transitionrig.com /archive1.htm (2828 words)

	Proa File \| Rig Options - Crab Claw
		The rig may be tilted straight up in light air to reach for the better breeze aloft, or in a fresh breeze it may be angled way down, to keep the CE as low as possible, and to apply the power in the safest, most manageable way.
		Though the rig is well-balanced on traditional proas while on windward courses or reaching, as the wind becomes more abaft the beam and the sheet is eased, the sail creates powerful weather helm, so that a steering paddle or rudder is required to maintain course.
		The rig is not easy to shunt, mainly because the heel of the yard must be moved all the way from one bow to the other every time.
	proafile.com /view/weblog/comments/rig_options_crab_claw (2377 words)

	Television Point \| Dictionary \| Meaning of rig
		Jack was rigged out in his gold and silver lace.
		{To rig a purchase}, to adapt apparatus so as to get a purchase for moving a weight, as with a lever, tackle, capstan, etc.
		That uncertain season before the rigs of Michaelmas were yet well composed.
	www.televisionpoint.com /dictionary/default.asp?define=rig (319 words)

	Experience Bermuda - Official Website of the Bermuda Hotel Association
		Bermuda's early settlers made the most of the sea that surrounded them.
		Bermuda kept the remaining third of its unique vessels, using them to trade throughout the Atlantic and beyond.
		Such speedy vessels incorporated the triangular "Bermuda rig" sail of small coastal sloops on large blue-water vessels.
	www.experiencebermuda.com /history/bermudasloop.html (382 words)

	International Mirror Class Association of Tasmania
		The UK Mirror Class Association has put forward a proposal to change the current gunter rig on the Mirror, and to replace it with all-alloy "bermuda" spars.
		Further to the discussion on the Bermuda/Alloy rig proposal, it appears that the vote on this will not be until later on in the year.
		This will give us more time to disemminate all the views/ information/ costs etc. Please keep sending me your thoughts if you have not already done so.
	www.mirrortas.org.au /rig_debate/new_rig.htm (160 words)

	Experience Bermuda - Official Website of the Bermuda Hotel Association
		Bermuda first based its economy on agriculture, but the island was ill suited for mass-scale farming and the plantation economy collapsed within 80 years of English settlement.
		The Bermuda Sloop Foundation is a public/private collaboration, a registered Bermuda charity that is 501(c)(3) eligible.
		Given Bermuda's strategic location, it's understandable that Britain considered the island chain to be one of its most important North American colonies.
	www.experiencebermuda.com /sightseeing/sloop.html (637 words)

	Brian Platt: Chinese Sail
		Other sails may sometimes be rigged on booms or between the masts but a two-masted vessel normally carries two sails, a three-master three sails etc. The sailing junks around Hong Kong generally have two or three masts, not more.
		A description of the rig is not complete without some description of the hull that carries it: and particularly so with the Chinese junk which is very much an integrated craft.
		In general the standing rigging of the junk appears unbelievably flimsy, but in fact the nature of the Chinese sail imposes such an evenly distributed strain that heavy rigging does not seem to be necessary.
	www.friend.ly.net /~dadadata/junk/platt/platt_chinese_sail.html (5634 words)

	Boat Building
		Bermuda was known for its sloops from the earliest days.
		Shipbuilding declined in Bermuda during the first half of the 19th century, partly because of the improvement in American schooner design, but more probably as a direct result of the shortage of cedar from excessive cutting.
		Recognising that Bermuda is on the verge of losing part of its maritime heritage, the Museum is attempting to build up a representative collection of small Bermuda-built boats.
	www.bermudamall.com /marmuse/officialguide/boat.htm (521 words)

	Ship Info
		Bermudians, enslaved and free, built the schooners in the period spanning the Emancipation of Slavery in the British Empire (Aug 1st, 1834).
		The original hull shape were adapted from the Bermuda-built RN “Shamrock” class, fast dispatch / patrol vessels that ran from the RN Dockyard, Bermuda, northwest to Halifax and Southwest to Jamaica to contain the rebel colonies.
		Noteworthy is the Bermuda rig that was innovated on the coastal Bermuda sloops that abounded in the 17th, 18th and early part of the 19th century; faced with impassable pathways by land, locals had evolved the lateen rig to short-tack up(wind) the island and up to the fishing banks to windward of Bermuda.
	www.sailvirginia2007.com /bermuda.html (157 words)

	What Cruising Sailors Need to Know
		Harry spoke well of the rig 'pulling like a team of horses' and used the term 'horse collar rig' which I think was derived from Fritzes comments.
		I would like to retain the traditional rig, but limitations caused by inability to reef and danger in raising/lowering the mainsail has provided thought to altering to a more manageable fully battened Bermuda rig.
		This has resulted in a marked lack of interest in putting it up, for fear of danger to luff and limb when lowering, invariably with a sea and strong wind running.
	www.northsails.com /north_america/Cruising_Sails/SolutionsStaysailRigging.htm (506 words)

	Online Dictionary for French English, Spanish English, Italian English, and more.
		To connect or secure to; "They rigged the bomb to the ignition." 3.
		rig> A rig of triangular sails for a yacht; Also called: Bermudan rig, Bermudian rig, Marconi rig.
		Rig in which the principal sails are fore-and-aft.
	www.ultralingua.com /onlinedictionary/?service=ee&text=rig (281 words)

	Bermuda Rig
		A rig of triangular sails for a yacht.
		Synonyms: Bermudan rig (n), Bermudian rig (n), Marconi rig (n).
		Translations for "Bermuda rig"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/Be/Bermuda+rig.html (300 words)

	About Bermuda
		But in years gone by, Bermuda waters were well known for more than their beauty to the earliest navigators who had business in the New World..
		Although most of the settlers continued on their way in a vessel they built while they were stranded on Bermuda, there have been people living here since that visit, and Bermuda’s character as a British colony was established.
		At first, these vessels were gaff-rigged, but Bermudians developed the Bermuda rig, which is now the basis for the rigging of nearly all-sailing yachts.
	www.bermuda.com /aboutbermuda (521 words)

	The Spirit of Bermuda will be attending the Tall Ships Nova Scotia Festival 2007
		Bermuda boasts its own tall ship now that the schooner Spirit of Bermuda has arrived at the island.
		She is of wood/epoxy construction and has a length of 88 feet. In the same manner as the Jubilee Sailing Trust barque, Tenacious, which is built of the same material, Spirit of Bermuda was constructed upside down and was righted on May 28 2005.
		This new vessel is owned by the Bermuda Sloop Association.
	www.tallshipsnovascotia.com /shipsDetails.aspx?id=14 (128 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)