Bulk carriers are a type of ship which transports cargoes (generally dry cargo) in bulk quantities. The cargo transported in such ships is loose cargo, i.e. without any specific packaging and generally contains items like food grains, ores and coals and even cement. Representation image Conventi...
Niaochuan (Bird ship) was a type of small wooden ship, featuring a small bow, a fat body and a pointed round bottom. Because of its slightly warped stern and beak-like bow, it was named “bird ship”. Often built with three masts and a fan-shaped sail, Niaochuan was used only for...
the Ohio-based builders Douglass & McLeod returned to S & S for the third, 34-foot addition to the burgeoning Tartan line. Like her sisterships, the Tartan 34 was commissioned as a “high performance, offshore cruising-racing boat.” The handsome lines of this keel-center...
Also similar to a sloop, a cutter has a single mast and mainsail, but the mast is further aft to allow the simultaneous use of two headsails that are set from two forestays. The headstay carries the jib and the inner stay carries the staysail. Historically this has been a favourite ri...
To help those of you who may share my passion of ships & sails but may not have done much sailing of your own, I have compiled the list below to help you to understand the differences between different types of sailing vessels. If you know of a type of sailing vessel I have missed,...
The present paper describes how wind tunnel tests combined with manoeuvring simulator tests and wind statistics can be used to estimate the mean reduction in power consumption for larger ships equipped with sail systems for auxiliary propulsion purposes. The results presented is based on wind tunnel ...
The headsail also goes by different names depending on the purpose and configuration of the sails. In afractional rig sloop, the forestay cable that is used to hoist the headsail is actually placed below the top of the mast. This configuration is particularly useful when it comes to performa...
Here’s a look at today’s various types of sailboats. 1. Sloop The most popular type of sailboat on the water today is the sloop. A sloop is a single-masted sailing vessel with a tall triangular mainsail and headsail. The sloop rig is simple to sail, enjoyable to sail, and flexible...
3. Cutter: A sailboat with a single mast and at least two headsails. The configuration breaks up the overall sail area of the large headsail found on a sloop and provides the ability to fly two smaller headsails at sea. This allows the crew to adjust one or both of the smaller head...
Sail Boats Sailboats have been around for thousands of years, and we’re all at least a little familiar with how they work. These boats can range in size and can have large cabins or none at all. BoatUs.com does a nice job categorizing the different types of sailboats that you can buy...