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lateen::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | lateen-rigged |
lateen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | lateen sail |
| Type of | fore-and-aft sail |
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Unlike a square sail rig, the spar of a lateen sail does not pivot around the mast.
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The disadvantage of the lateen rig is that it is a poorer runner than a square rig.
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A lateen-rigged vessel is far more maneuverable than a square-rigged vessel.
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Representations show lateen sails in the Mediterranean as early as the 2nd century AD.
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Lateen sails mounted this way were known as leg-of-mutton sails in English.
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Propelled by lateen rigging, the three-masted ships were fast and tacked into the wind.
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The earliest archaeologically excavated lateen-rigged ship, the Yassi Ada II, dates to ca.
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Likewise, lateen sail survived in the Baltic until the late 19th century.
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The lateen rig was also the ancestor of the Bermuda rig, by way of the Dutch bezaan rig.
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- Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail
- A triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean
- A lateen (from French latine, meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction.
- A triangular fore-and-aft sail set on a boom in such way that the tack is attached to the hull of the vessel and the free end of the boom lifts the sail
- Rig with a triangular sail secured to a yard hoisted to a low mast.
- TFD: Being, relating to, or rigged with a triangular sail hung on a long yard that is attached at an angle to the top of a short mast.
