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In a word, flexibility. The are less likely to snap in a sudden high breeze.
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What is used in sailing?
a boat a sail and the wind
What is used to steer a boat?
Normally a rudder is used to steer, but it depends on what boat your on on what the rudder steers. For example- a motor on a jet boat and a tilla on a sailing boat.
How did vertical timbers affect the old globe theatre?
The height of the playhouses were limited by the height of the timbers. The size of the masts used in sailing ships were comparable.
What type of sailing vessel did Columbus use on his initial voyage to the Western Hemisphere?
Christopher Columbus used the type of sailing vessel called a caravel. Caravels were a common sailing ship built in the 15th and 16th centuries. They were small ships with a broad bow, a high narrow poop deck, and usually had three masts.
What does a schooner look like?
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century. It has fore and aft sails on two or more masts.
What name is given to the heavy implement used to moor a sailing boat to the sea bed?
Anchor
How were sailing ships used to transport cotton to the North?
they put cotton in a boat and brought it the the north
How is a pulley used in a sailing boat?
To ease the raising of sails, a pulley is attached to the top of the mast.
What is a topper?
well a topper is a small single handed sailing boat which is used normally for racing.
What is a two-masted sailing vessel called?
A brig is one type of two-masted sailing vessel. More specifically, a brig is a vessel with two square-rigged masts. This means that the two masts have square sails, as opposed to a vessel that is bermuda-rigged (triangle-shaped sails). There are other types of two-masted sailing vessels: Brigantine Brig or Brig-schooner Ketch Koch (type not based on rigging) Schooner Yawl. Of these, the ketch, schooner, and yawl still remain somewhat popular today.
Is a galleon a type of ship?
A Galleon was a large full rigged sailing ship having three or four masts and used primally as a warship or trader between the 15th and 18th Century
What powered Da Gamas ships?
Vasco Da Gama's ship was powered by the wind, it was a sailing boat.
