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What are the names of the sails on a Ketch type sail boat?
The lowest fore-and-aft sail on the main mast is called the mainsail, while that on the mizzen is called the mizzen sail. These may be any type of fore-and-aft sail, in any combination. The Scots Zulu, for example, had a dipping lug main with a standing lug mizzen.
What is a jib?
It is a type of sailing boat sail of triangular shape that is rigged in front of the mainsail.
What are triangular sails called?
One type is the "lateen sail", but there are also jibs; Genoa & spinnaker.
What type of web does the triangular spider spin?
The triangular spider spins spiral, wheel-shaped webs, that are often found in gardens.
What is a triangular shaped tomb?
A triangular shaped tomb is a burial structure or monument that is designed in the shape of a triangle. This type of tomb is less common and typically has three sides that come together at a point. Triangular tombs can be found in various cultures and time periods, and they may have different architectural and symbolic meanings depending on the context.
What is the shpe of the harp?
It really depends on the type of harp. Most are triangular shaped, but Celtic harps are more curved, almost like a mango shape.
What type of head shape the cottonmouth has?
it has a white mouth (lik a cottonball and has brown and green on the sides. and maybe a lil black
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 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
Which solid figure can only be made from one type of polygon?
triangular prism
A lateen is?
A type of sail
How can a pirate ship sail against wind?
By a method called tacking. The vessal moves in a zig zag like pattern to make head way. A sailing boat can not sail into the wind in a straight line. In a zig-zag pattern shifting from port to starboard. I have the older version, actually. Mine is from around the time Christopher Colombus sailed to the Indies. They used a triangular sail and a square sail that could sail into the wind. The square sail sailed with the wind and the triangular one sailed against it. These ships are called Caravels.
