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A classic cutter is a sailing vessel with more than one head sail and one mast. In a traditional vessel there would normally be also, a bowsprit to carry the topmast forestay with the jib hanked to it. (The sloop carries only one head sail, properly called a foresail though nowadays usually called a jib.) Correctly speaking, a jib is set on the topmast forestay. The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, traditionally with a gaff mainsail, though not invariably so. The foot of the mainsail would normally be laced to a boom and the head to a gaff above which a gaff topsail would be set in suitable conditions. There would also be a foresail and jib and possibly a flying jib set above the jib.
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|  Catamaran | Catamaran
A catamaran is a type of boat (or occasionally ship) consisting of two hulls joined by a frame. Catamarans can be sail- or motor-powered. The word catamaran comes from the Tamil language, in which the word kattumaram means "logs bound together". The catamaran was the invention of the paravas, an aristocratic fishing community in the southern coast of Tamilnadu, India. Catamarans were used by the ancient Tamil Chola dynasty as early as 5th century AD for moving their fleets to conquer such Southeast Asian regions as Burma, Indonesia and Malaysia. |
|  Dhow | Dhow
A dhow is a traditional Arab sailing vessel with one or more triangular sails, called lateens. It is primarily used along the coasts of the Arabian Peninsula, India, and East Africa. A larger dhow may have a crew of approximately thirty while smaller dhow have crews typically ranging around twelve. For celestial navigation, dhow sailors have traditionally used the kamal. This observation device determines latitude by finding the angle of the Pole Star above the horizon. |
|  Dingy | Dinghy
A dinghy is a small utility boat attached to a larger boat. Dinghies are usually rowboats or have a small outboard motor while others may use a small sailing rig. They are necessary for any off-ship excursions from larger boats, outside of docking at suitably-sized ports or marinas. When not in the above context, a "dinghy" commonly refers to any similar boat originally developed for that use, but now used in its own right for dinghy sailing or rowing. |
|  Dory | Dory
A dory is a small, shallow-draft boat of approximately 5 to 7 m (15 to 22 ft) in length. Lightweight and versatile, these boats are used in the open sea for commercial fishing applications, as well as in whitewater rafting on interior rivers. McKenzie River Dory versions usually seat from two or three to four people including the oarsman. The hullform is characterized by flat sides angled approx. 30 degrees from the vertical, and a bottom that is transversely flat and arced fore-and-aft. (This curvature is known as 'rocker'.) The stern is frequently a raked surface that tapers sharply toward the bottom forming an nearly double-ended boat. Nested stacks of dories were frequently carried on the decks of fishing schooners out to the fishing grounds, where they were then deployed to lay longlines or tend nets. More glamorously, dories were once used to travel dangerous whitewater rivers, where their superior maneuverability made them preferable over other watercraft available at the time. They have since been supplanted in this purpose by inflatable rafts which require less skill and are generally more durable for collisions with rocks. However, fishing guides on many western U.S. rivers still use drift dories because of their maneuverability and ability to be rowed upstream. Additionally, their high rocker and extremely shallow draft give them low resistance to the flow of water, effectively holding the boat in place for the prolonged fishing of holes in the river. Typically salmon, trout, and steelhead are fished for this way. The double-ended nature of a dory makes it very suitable for these uses in broken water. As with the more elabourately-built surf boats used in various parts of the world, and the old, pulling whalers, the form of their stern allows the boat to rise to a following sea without the boat's broaching to. The term "dory" is also used for a different and otherwise unrelated type of modern boat. This is a rectangular plastic or fibreglass dinghy with a cathedral hull, used as a working boat, tender, or fishing platform. The rectangular shape provides maximum space for a given length and beam. Its cathedral hull makes it extremely stable while still being easily-driven and hence reasonably fast with a small outboard. |
|  Inflateable | Inflateable
An inflatable boat is a light-weight but high performance and high capacity boat constructed with flexible tubes at the gunwale. Often they are designed to be highly portable by being deflated and packed into a small volume allowing them to be used as liferafts for boats or aircraft or simply so that they can easily be transported to water. Boats may have rubber floors, either plain or inflatable, or they may include steel, wood or aluminium sheets for rigidity. The tubes are made of rubberised, synthetic sheet and provide a large amount of light-weight and secure buoyancy. The tubes are often constructed in separate sections, each with a valve to add or remove air, to reduce the effect of a puncture, meaning that should one section puncture it is quite possible to repair it while still underway, and the patched area will probably be tougher than the original. |
|  Jetboat | Jetboat
A jetboat is a boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft. Unlike a powerboat or motorboat that uses a propeller in the water behind the boat, a jetboat draws the water from under the boat into a pump-jet inside the boat, then expels it through a nozzle at the stern. Jetboats were originally designed by Sir William Hamilton (who invented the waterjet in 1954) to operate in the fast-flowing and shallow rivers of New Zealand to overcome the problem of propellers striking rocks in such waters, although Italian inventor Secondo Campini demonstrated a similar vessel as early as 1931 in Venice. The difference between Campini's and Hamilton's invention are that Campini's waterjet had a very short lifetime in operation due to some unsolved material problems. Hamilton, unlike Campini, filed for a patent. Jet boats are highly maneuverable and can often be reversed and brought to a stop within their own length from full speed in a maneuver known as a Hamilton turn. There is no engineering limit to the size of jet boats, though the classic prop-drive is more economical than the jet-drive. Thus, the biggest jet driven vessels are found in military use. South Africa's MECCU-Frigates (approximately 150m long) are the tallest jet-propelled vessels so far. Even these German built vessels are capable of performing the Hamilton turn. |
|  Jet Ski | Jet Ski
Jet Ski is the brand name of Kawasaki's personal water craft. The name, however, is often used as a generic term for personal watercraft (PWC), typically those propelled by water jets. These jets rapidly expel water, driven by a screw-shaped propeller, in a backward spray. Jet ski can also refer to versions of PWCs known as "stand-ups". Because of their relatively low cost and the freedom they afford to owners, Jet skis are widely used for recreation. However, many U.S. states require safety training for persons operating personal water craft. All modern Jet Skis include a dead man's switch, commonly called a lanyard, to turn off the vessel if the rider falls off. Lake Havasu, Arizona is a favorite for Jet Ski riders and annually hosts the World Championships for personal watercraft racing each October. |
|  Kajak | Kayak
A kayak is a type of small human-powered boat and is a covered variant of a canoe, it is often called a canoe in Great Britain and Ireland, typically used with a double-bladed paddle instead of a canoe's single bladed paddle. The user or paddler sits down in the kayak with feet facing forward. The top of the kayak is covered with a deck. The paddler sits in a hole in the cockpit which may be sealed off with a spray skirt (or spraydeck). This stops water splashing over the boat from entering it, and makes it possible that, should the kayak (capsize), the kayak will not fill with water, and the paddler, with skill, can right the kayak again without taking on water. This manoeuvre is known as an Eskimo Roll. |
|  Ketch | Ketch
A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: A main mast, and a mizzen mast abaft the main mast. Both masts are rigged mainly fore-and-aft. From one to three jibs are carried forward of the main mast when going to windward. On older, larger ketches the main mast may in addition carry one or more square rigged topsails, similar to a sloop. A ketch may also carry extras, see below. The main 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 either gaff or bermuda rigged, or less often one of each in either combination. The ketch rig is often confused with a yawl. The difference is that the ketch has her mizzen mast forward of the rudder post thus having more sail area, which contributes significant forward propulsion, whereas the mizzen on a yawl is aft of the rudder post and is used primarily to balance the sail plan (and as a riding sail while at anchor). The ketch is popular among long distance cruisers as the additional sail allows for a better balance, and a smaller more easily handled mainsail for the same overall sail area. It also allows sailing on mizzen and jib only without introducing excessive lee helm, and in an emergency can be quite well steered without use of the rudder. Running before the wind or reaching across the wind, a ketch may carry extra sails such as a spinnaker on the main mast, and possibly a second smaller reaching set between the masts (mizzen staysail). |
|  Motorboat | Motorboat
A motorboat generally speaking is a vessel other than a sailboat or personal watercraft, propelled by an internal combustion engine driving a jet or a propeller. However, the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea defines it as any vessel propelled by machinery. Since an oar is an example of a lever, one of the simplest machines, thus, a rowing boat is by definition a motorboat. A speedboat is a small motorboat designed to move quickly, used in races, for pulling water skiers, as patrol boats, and as fast-moving armed attack vessels by the military. There are three popular variations of powerplants: inboard, inboard/outboard, and outboard. If the engine is installed within the boat, it's called a powerplant; if it's a removable module attached to the boat, it's commonly known as an outboard motor. An outboard motor is installed on the rear of a boat and contains the internal combustion engine, the gear reduction, and the propeller. An inboard/outboard contains a hybrid of a powerplant and an outboard, where the internal combustion engine is contained inboard and the gear reduction and propeller are outside. A purely inboard boat contains everything except a shaft and a propeller inside the vessel. There are two configurations of an inboard, v-drive and direct drive. A direct drive has the powerplant mounted near the middle of the boat with the propeller shaft straight out the back, where a v-drive has the powerplant mounted in the back of the boat facing backwards having the shaft go towards the front of the boat than making a 'V' towards the rear. Motorboats vary greatly in size and configuration, from the 4-meter, open Boston Whaler type to the luxury mega-yachts capable of crossing an ocean. |
|  Outrigger Canoe | Outrigger Canoe
The outrigger canoe (Tagalog: bangka; Maori: waka; Hawaiian: wa'a) is a type of canoe featuring one or more lateral support floats known as outriggers, which are fastened to one or both sides of the main hull. The outrigger bestows greater stability and seaworthiness upon a canoe. Smaller canoes often employ a single outrigger on the port side, while larger canoes usually emply a double outrigger configuration. |
|  Rigid-Inflatable Boat (RIB) | Rigid-Inflatable Boat (RIB)
A rigid-inflatable boat (RIB) (or rigid-hulled inflatable boat, RHIB) is a light-weight but high performance and high capacity boat constructed with a solid, shaped hull and flexible tubes at the gunwale. The generic design is very stable and seaworthy. The hull provides efficient performance in the water. The inflatable collar means that buoyancy is not lost if a large quantity of water is shipped aboard. The RIB is a development of the inflatable boat. |
|  Rowing Boat | Rowing Boat
With regard to watercraft, rowing is propulsion, usually of a small boat, by forcing one or more oars mounted on the craft via rowlocks to push against the water. The purpose can be transport, recreation or sport. The most common instances are those where one rower pulls on two oars, each a single straight piece mounted to an oarlock on the gunwhale of the boat, thereby moving the boat in the direction opposite that which the rower faces. A single oar per rower, multiple rowers (usually coordinated by a coxswain, articulated oars that facilitate efficient rowing in the direction the rower faces, maneuvers aimed at turning or at rowing in the opposite direction, and some combinations of these, are also well established aspects of rowing. For the principal case described above, keeping equal forces on the two oars, efficiently coordinating the application of vertical and horizontal force according to the point in the cycle of rowing, and muscular strength and endurance, are major aspects of effective rowing. Sport rowing is an important specialized case of rowing. |
|  Schooner | Schooner
A schooner (IPA: [ˈskuːnə]) is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. Schooners were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century, and further developed in North America from the time of the American Revolution. The schooner sail-plan has two or more masts with the forward mast being shorter or the same height as the rear masts. A two-masted schooner is technically a yacht, as a sailing ship must have at least three masts. Most schooners are either gaff or schooner rigged. Alternatives include the topsail schooner with one or two square rigged topsails on the foremast, and the staysail schooner with staysails only on the foremast. There was no set maximum number of masts for a schooner. A small schooner has two or three masts, but they were built with as many as six or seven masts to carry a larger volume of cargo. The only seven-masted (steel hulled) schooner, the Thomas W. Lawson, was built in 1902, with a length of 395 ft (120 m) and carrying 25 sails with 43,000 ft² (4,000 m²) of sail. A schooner is quite maneuverable and can be sailed by a smaller crew than some other sailing vessels. |
|  Sharpie | Sharpies
are long, narrow sailboats with flat bottoms, extremely shallow draft, centerboards and straight, flaring sides. They are believed to have originated in the New Haven, Connecticut region of Long Island Sound, United States, for the oystering industry, which thrived in New Haven harbor with its wide, shallow waters. The type is believed to have evolved from the Native American dugout canoes that were originally used in the area. European setters altered the original dugout form so that the sides and bottom were flat, to improve stability and carrying capacity. It was around 1840-1850 that the first true sharpies were being built in the New Haven area. These were long boats, about 27 feet or so, crewed by one man and rigged as a cat-ketch, with three mast steps; one at the bow, one amidships and one in between. In light airs, two masts would be stepped at the bow and amidships, but in heavier weather a single mast would be stepped in the middle. Larger versions, up to 35 feet, were crewed by two men. The New Haven models were typified by plumb bows with the foot just out of the water and round, counter-sterns. Although most sharpies were rigged as a cat-ketch with free standing, sprit rigs, larger versions - especially those found in the Carolina's and Florida - used stayed gaff schooner rigs which included a jib. The sharpie type migrated south and west to other regions where shallow water prevented deep-draft vessels from operating, including Chesapeake Bay, the Carolina's, the Great Lakes (Ohio) and Florida. Sharpies were introduced to Florida in 1881, when Commodore Ralph Monroe brought a 30-foot sharpie to the Key West area of Florida. Several years later, the Commodore brought his 33-foot Kingfish to St. Augustine, Florida. Perhaps the most famous of sharpies was the Commodore's, Egret design, now immortalized in plans available from WoodenBoat magazine. The Commodore designed Egret in 1886 and had her built on Staten Island and delivered to Key West. Egret was unique in that she had higher, flaring sides than the typical sharpie and was double-ended. As with a dory, this meant more stability as she was loaded and the ability to run before a following sea without waves breaking over the stern. These attributes contributed to behavior that led the Commodore to call the Egret a "sharpie-lifeboat". Modern designers sometimes refer to the design as a 'shorie' - a cross between the sharpie and the dory. Throughout the late 1800's, the Commodore and others helped to evolve the type. Thomas Clapham utilized a v-bottom in his "Nonpareil sharpies", and Larry Huntington introduced a rounded, arc bottom that has been used by modern designers like Bruce Kirby and Reuel Parker. Some believe the Chesapeake Bay skipjack with its v-bottom may have evolved from the early sharpies. |
|  Skiff | Skiff
The term skiff is applied to various river craft, but a skiff is typically a small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern. Although originally used mainly by fishermen, they are today primarily leisure craft. They usually hold either one person or, more commonly, three (two scullers and a cox). Many modern skiffs do carry a small outboard motor and have a center-console hull design, with a blunt bow, a flat bottom and a square stern. They are relatively inexpensive compared to skiboats or bass boats, and are common "working" boats, filling such jobs as ferrying passengers from the shore to a larger vessel, or employed by crab trappers. |
|  Trimaran | Trimarans
have a number of advantages over comparable monohulls (conventional, single-hulled sailboats). Given two boats of the same length, the trimaran has a shallower draft, a wider beam, less hull area, and is able to fly more sail area. In addition, because of the wide beam, trimarans do not need the weighted keel required in monohulls. As a result, the trimaran offers much better straight-line performance than a monohull, is able to sail in shallower water, and maintains its stability in stronger winds. However, its wider beam makes it a little more cumbersome to maneuver, so tacking and jibing can be trickier, and the narrower hulls provide less living space than an equivalently-sized monohull. As the righting moment (the force that resists the opposite torque of the wind on the sails) is produced by a float on either side called an ama and not a heavy protruding keel, trimarans are lighter and faster than a monohull of equivalent length. A lightweight retractable keel, referred to as a centerboard is often employed to resist lateral movement, making many models easily beachable. Most trimarans are nearly impossible to flip sideways given a reasonable degree of caution, however, trimarans can reach speeds so great in a storm that they can plow into a wave and flip end-over-end. This hazard is especially dangerous for a multihull because of their wide beam. The front of the boat, often covered by trampoline, acts as a giant paddle rather than a narrow monohull would. To avoid this unfortunate scenario trimaran sailors are advised to use trampolines with a large weave and employ parachute drogues and sea anchors whenever appropriate. |
|  Whaleboat | Whaleboat
A whaleboat is a type of open boat that is relatively narrow and pointed at both ends, enabling it to move either forwards or backwards equally well. It was originally developed for whaling, and later became popular for work along beaches, since it does not need to be turned around for beaching or refloating. Whaleboats are traditionally oar-powered, although in whaling use often had a dismountable mast and sails, too. After 1850 most were fitted with a centerboard for sailing. When sailing, steering was with a rudder; when rowing, steering was done with an oar held over the stern. Whaleboats used in whaling had a stout post mounted on the aft deck, around which the steersman would cinch the rope once the whale had been harpooned, and by which the whale would drag the boat until it was killed. |
|  Windsurfer | Windsurfing
(also called boardsailing) is a sport involving travel over water on a small 2-4.7 meter board powered by wind acting on a single sail, that is connected to the board via a flexible joint. The sport is a hybrid between sailing and surfing. The sail board might be considered the most minimalistic version of the modern sailboat, with the major exception that steering is accomplished by the rider tilting the mast and sail or, when planing, banking the board, rather than with a rudder. Also, one can simultaneously apply pressure and angle to the windward rail of the board to achieve direction. Windsurfers can travel over flat water as long as there is enough wind; they can also cut into breaking waves and perform spectacular stunts. Windsurfing can mean a peaceful relaxed pastime on the water to some people, it can be a high-stress high-adrenalin sport to others, but it can also be a lifestyle of seeking the endless limits of perfection in skills and self-expression. Windsurfing is particularly enjoyable at wind strengths of Beaufort 3 or higher. |
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