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What are triangular sails?
Either a marconi or lanteen rig
What year were the lanteen sails made?
Lanteen sails are still made
What is A ship with square and triangular sails?
"Square-riggers" have primarily square sails, but the jib sails are triangular.
Lateen sails were triangular these sails were square?
Trapezoidal, actually. But the square sails were called square sails. Lateen or square could be referred to as yards.
If La-teen sails were triangular which type of sails are square?
Square sails (rectangular) were (are) called four-cornered sails.
If lateen sails were triangular which type of sails were square?
They were referred to as "four-cornered" sails.
What is the ship with square and triangular sails?
caravel
A ship with square and triangular sails?
caravel
What kind of sail did ancient egyptians drive their boats?
Lanteen sails
If lateen sails were triangular what were the square sails called in medieval times?
Square sails are not truly square but rectangular with a longer long side on the bottom perimeter of the sail. They were and are referred to as "four-cornered" sails.
A ship developed in the 1400s with triangular sails for tracking into the wind and square sails to for running before the wind?
A caravael
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
