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If lateen sails were triangular which type of sails were square?
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They were referred to as "four-cornered" sails.
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What are triangular sails called?
One type is the "lateen sail", but there are also jibs; Genoa & spinnaker.
If La-teen sails were triangular which type of sails are square?
Square sails (rectangular) were (are) called four-cornered sails.
What is a type of Triangular shaped fore and aft sail?
Lateen
What was the difference between caravels and earlier ships?
the caravel has triangular sails as well as square sails. Square sails carried the ship forward when the wind was at its back. Triangular sails allowed the caravel to sail into the wind. the caravel was better than other euoopean ships of the time at this type of sailing
What made the caravel a good ship for exploration?
Some reasons why the caravel was a good ship for exploration were that they were agile and easier to navigate, with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and 1 to 3 masts, with lateen triangular sails allowing beating.Being smaller and having a shallow keel, the caravel could sail upriver in shallow coastal waters. With the lateen sails attached, it was highly maneuverable and could sail much nearer the wind, while with the square Atlantic-type sails attached, it was very fast.
A lateen is?
A type of sail
What type technology aided Portuguese exploration?
They built caravels, made better maps, used the rudder, used the lateen (a triangular sail), used an astrolabe, also used a compass.
What type of technology aided portuguese's exploration?
They built caravels, made better maps, used the rudder, used the lateen (a triangular sail), used an astrolabe, also used a compass.
What type of building has sails?
windmill
How many square faces does a prism have?
It depends on what type of prism. Is it a rectangular prism, a triangular prism, etc?
What was the caravel and why was it important?
Type of ship, had square sails and was capable of crossing oceans. Columbus, most famous use of, 'discovered' the new world with caravels.
Schmitt trigger convert which wave form?
Schmitt trigger converts any type of waveform (such as sine,triangular.........)to square wave.So it is called Square wave converter.
