A Wisdom Archive on lateen sail ... In sailing, a course sail is the principal sail on a mast. This term is used predominantly on square rigged vessels, referring to the largest and lowest sail on each mast (mizzen-course, main-course and fore-course). ... Among the most famous explorers of the period were Christopher Columbus,
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www.experiencefestival.com/lateen_sail
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The lateen sail seems not to have been used by merchant vessels ...... return to Portugal against the trade winds for those first explorers who ...
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Caravel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Caravel boat. For the carvel type of boat building, see Carvel (boat building). A caravel is a small, highly maneuverable, two- or three-masted lateen-rigged ship, created...
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The caravel, also a product of Iberian shipyards, was the first choice for explorers in the early period. The caravel was relatively small and light, with shallow draught. Her three masts were all lateen rigged. Lateen sails were adopted from the Arab world and allowed a vessel to sail much closer into the wind.
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Early explorers of the African coasts ... Later Arab sailors also used compasses obtained from the Chinese who had discovered the properties of magnetised iron in the 1st century B.C.. Arab dhows used lateen sails which allowed sailing closer to the wind than the square sails used by others.
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Instead, the Portuguese used a type whose construction they borrowed from Arab merchants, the two-master lateen caravel. The lateen sail was more or less triangular and capable of being adjusted to almost all winds. ... Early in their career as explorers, the Portuguese encountered Spanish rivalry. During the fifteenth...
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This once-powerful civilization, built on the trade of ivory, spices and slaves, produced its own language, Kiswahili, a seductive, spicy cuisine, and the Lateen sail, which Mediterranean explorers used to sail to the New World.
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2). A sailor using a square sail in such a manner is well on the way toward inventing the lateen sail, especially one constructed like that used in the western Indian Ocean, probably by the intermediate step of the lug sail (fig.
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Whereas the yard of a square sail pivots on the mast and can turn easily to the required angle with the use of ropes, to swing the foot of a lateen yard behind the mast and rest the sail in another direction when the ship was already beating to windward required a great deal of strength and a large crew.
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