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sloop
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thumb|A Bermuda sloop, the most common version of the sloop in modern sailing vessels thumb|Gaff rigged sloop, 1899
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thumb|A Bermuda sloop, the most common version of the sloop in modern sailing vessels thumb|Gaff rigged sloop, 1899
In modern usage, a sloop is a sailboat with a single mast generally having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail abaft (behind) the mast. It is a type of fore-and-aft rig. The mainsail may be of any type, most often Bermuda rig, but also others, such as gaff or gunter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sloop” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.