Sailboat
A sailboat, sailing boat or yacht is a boat that has a mast and sails. It moves by using the wind in its sails but it may also have an engine.[1]
Types
There are a great many different sailboats.
Dinghy
A sailing dinghy is a small boat up to about 7 metres (23 ft.) which usually has a centreboard. It does not have a cabin. Usually, a sailboat has two sails: a mainsail and a jib and sometimes a spinnaker.
Sailing yacht
A sailing yacht is a larger boat with a keel and it normally has a cabin. These types of boats can sail long distances, sometimes even around the world. Sometimes they have only one mast but they can have two or three.[2]
Tall ship
A tall ship is an even larger sailing boat which were used before steam engines were invented. These were used for carrying cargo from port to port in days gone by. Now they are usually used as training ships for young people. A tall ship usually has more than one mast.[3]
Sailboat Media
Sailboat on Lake Constance, Germany.
wooden sailing boat Kleine Freiheit - 70 year old gaff cutter - operation: Abenraa - Denmark
- Nonsuch
- erskiffsailingAUSnationalsGeelong
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Taken 4-JUL-1976, NYC.
Bermuda rigged sloop at Convict Bay, Bermuda, circa 1879
Chubasco photo D Ramey Logan
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References
- ↑ Sleight, Steve (2017). The Complete Sailing Manual. London: Penguin. p. 70.
- ↑ "Start boating: Yacht". RYA. Archived from the original on 2015-07-03. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
- ↑ 1817-1862, Thoreau, Henry David. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers". www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
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