Sailing rigs and rigging

thumb|right|200px|Climbing the ratlines of STS Mir|STS Mir thumb|right|200px|Rat-boards and rigging of Christian Radich

thumb|Sailor standing on a footrope, outer foot on the Flemish horse. thumb|The footrope (lightly outlined in red) on the topgallant yard, far above the water. See also the picture at Flemish horse (rigging)

thumb|A modern yacht with a trysail set A trysail (also known as a spencer) is a small triangular or gaff rigged sail hoisted in place of a larger mainsail when winds are very high. The trysail provides enough thrust to maintain control of the ship, e.g. to avoid ship damage, and to keep the bow to the wind. It is hoisted abaft (i.e., directly behind) the mainmast (taking the place of the much larger mainsail) or, on a brig, abaft the foremast. A trysail is analogous to a storm jib.

wire utilized in sailing

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battened lugsail from Asia

thumb|300px|Sails made with synthetic fibers. Sailcloth is cloth used to make sails. It can be made of a variety of materials, including natural fibers such as flax, hemp, or cotton in various forms of sail canvas, and synthetic fibers such as nylon, polyester, aramids, and carbon fibers in various woven, spun, and molded textiles.

boat rigging component

rope used to hold a stowed sail in place

thumb|A Dutch sailing barge showing its stowed windward leeboard, hiked up with wind from starboard thumb|Leeboard deployed on a Thames sailing barge on the East Swin thumb|right|alt=Modern sharpie fitted with leeboards|The Centennial a 1979 Ted Brewer sharpie fitted with leeboards

sailing term; single or multiple pulley

type of rigging for sailing

thumb|BMW Oracle Racing USA 17 (yacht)|USA 17 from the [[2010 America's Cup, with a rigid mainsail wingsail, and a conventional jib at the fore]] right|thumb|Forces on a wing (green = lift, red = drag).

strips used to support the roach of a sail

thumb|right|An illustration of a bilander thumb| Rig diagram

ship element; comprises the fixed lines, wires, or rods, which support each mast or bowsprit on a sailing vessel and reinforce those spars against wind loads transferred from the sails

A skeg (or skegg or skag) is a sternward extension of the keel of boats and ships which have a rudder mounted on the centre line. The term also applies to the lowest point on an outboard motor or the outdrive of an inboard/outboard. In more recent years, the name has been used for a fin on a surfboard which improves directional stability and to a movable fin on a kayak which adjusts the boat's centre of lateral resistance (it moves the center of resistance relative to the center of effort). The term is also often used for the fin on water skis in the U.S. It has been used for the vertical fin

thumb|Schematic view of the bow of a ship, showing: A the martingale stay, B the dolphin striker and C the bobstay. thumb|Bows of HMS Victory|HMS Victory: three parallel bobstays, separate dolphin-striker with martingale stays. A bobstay is a part of the rigging of a sailing boat or ship. Its purpose is to counteract the upward tension on the bowsprit from the jibs and forestay. A bobstay may run directly from the stem to the bowsprit, or it may run to a dolphin striker, a spar projecting downward, which is then held to the bowsprit or jibboom by a martingale stay.

spar in ship's rigging

spar on a sailboat used to deflect the shrouds to allow them to better support the mast

part of a sailing ship

ropes used to handle sails of a ship

right|300px|thumb|A boomkin projecting from the bow of (in center of image) A boomkin, bumkin, or bumpkin is a short spar that may project either fore or aft on a sailing vessel, depending on its function. Traditionally, it was a strong, usually wooden spar extending forward over the bow of a Western sailing ship holding a block through which the tack of the foresail was passed; on some modern sailing yachts with long main booms it is a short spar extending aft from the stern anchoring a central backstay.

type of sailing rigging attachment

A gybe preventer, preventer, or jibe-guard, is a mechanical device on a sailing vessel which limits the boom's ability to swing unexpectedly across the boat due to an unplanned accidental jibe.

thumb|Maltese Falcon (yacht)|Maltese Falcon masts The DynaRig is a conceptualization of a square-rigged form of rigging, designed in the 1960s by the German engineer Wilhelm Prölß. While having the appearance of the rigging of a 19th-century clipper ship, it was not actually implemented on a sailing vessel until several decades after its design because of a lack of adequate construction materials. It was fitted to one of the world's largest yachts, the Maltese Falcon. When the original patent rights and residual technology were purchased from the German government by an American investor in 20

type of sail

Oblique quadrilateral sail from Southeast Asia

thumb|Adjustable fairlead (lower right) leading to winch on sailboat thumb|Fairlead (Chock style) thumb|Three mooring lines (hawsers) running through fairlead on a [[Royal New Zealand Navy ship.]]

features that define a (ship) sail's shape and function

SolidSail, sometimes referred to as Solid Sail or SolidSail Mast Factory (SMAF) in reference to the eponymous subsidiary, is a wind propulsion technology designed for large vessels, developed by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France. This innovative system is based on rigid sails made of composite materials and a tilting gaff rigging, enabling hybrid or primary wind propulsion for commercial and cruise ships. It is also the name of the subsidiary created by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in 2023.

form of two-legged lifting device

thumb|Muletta A muletta is a variety of Portuguese fishing trawler, a sailing ship used to catch fish by means of large nets. They are between long, with an average of about , and are crewed by between 10 and 18 sailors. Its carvel-built hull, sail plan, and rigging are unusual for a sailing vessel: the hull is slightly concave along the keel, allowing the ship to be beached upright and giving it a greater draught when tipped ("heeled") than when upright, the bows are nearly always painted with large eyes (a holdover from the Ancient Greek practice of doing so), and it has a series of small sp

rope fixing the front lower corner of the sail

ship type

Type of sail (quadrilateral shape)