Outline of sailing
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sailing:
Sailing – the use of wind to provide the primary power via sail(s) or wing to propel a craft over water, ice or land. A sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails by adjusting their angle with respect to the moving sailing craft and sometimes by adjusting the sail area.
Overview
[edit | edit source]Sailing can be described as all of the following:
- Exercise – bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness.
- Recreation – activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time.[1]
- Sport – organized, competitive, entertaining, and skillful physical activity requiring commitment, strategy, and fair play, in which a winner can be defined by objective means.
- Transport – movement of people and goods from one location to another.
- Boating – travel or transport by boat; or the recreational use of a boat (whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels such as rowing and paddle boats) focused on the travel itself or on sports activities, such as fishing.
- Travel – movement of people between relatively distant geographical locations for any purpose and any duration, with or without any additional means of transport.
- Tourism – travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.
Types of sailing
[edit | edit source]History of sailing
[edit | edit source]Types of sailing vessels
[edit | edit source]Parts of a sailing vessel
[edit | edit source]- Aftercastle
- Anchor
- Anchor windlass
- Beakhead
- Bilge
- Bilgeboard
- Boom brake
- Bow
- Bowsprit
- Capstan
- Cathead
- Centreboard
- Chains
- Cockpit
- Crow's nest
- Daggerboard
- Deck
- Figurehead
- Forecastle
- Gangway
- Gunwale
- Head
- Hull
- Jackline
- Jibboom
- Keel
- Keel (Canting)
- Kelson
- Leeboard
- Mast
- Orlop deck
- Poop deck
- Prow
- Quarter gallery
- Quarterdeck
- Rudder
- Sail
- Ship's wheel
- Skeg
- Spar (sailing)
- Stem
- Stern
- Sternpost
- Strake
- Tiller
- Top
- Transom
- Whipstaff
- Wind transducer
- Winch
Hull configurations
[edit | edit source]Rigging
[edit | edit source]Rigging – apparatus through which the force of the wind is used to propel sailboats and sailing ships forward. This includes spars (masts, yards, etc.), sails, and cordage.
Types of rigs
[edit | edit source]Rigging components
[edit | edit source]- Standing rigging – the fixed lines, wires, or rods, which support each mast or bowsprit on a sailing vessel and reinforce those spars against wind loads transferred from the sails.
- Running rigging – the components used for raising, lowering, shaping and controlling the sails on a sailing vessel
- General rigging components
Types of Spars
[edit | edit source]Spar (sailing) – pole of wood, metal or lightweight materials such as carbon fibre used in the rigging of a sailing vessel to carry or support its sail. These include booms and masts, which serve both to deploy sail and resist compressive and bending forces, as well as the bowsprit and spinnaker pole.
- Boom
- Bowsprit
- Boomkin
- Dolphin striker a/k/a Martingale
- Pelican striker
- Fore-mast
- Gaff
- Jackstaff
- Jibboom
- Jigger-mast
- Jury rigging
- Main-mast
- Mast
- Mizzen-mast
- Truck
- Spinnaker pole
- Spreader
- Sprit
- Topmast
- Yard
Sails
[edit | edit source]- Sail a device designed to receive and redirect a force upon a surface area. Traditionally, the surface was engineered of woven fabric and supported by a mast, whose purpose is to propel a sailing vessel.
Types of sails
[edit | edit source]- Blooper
- Course
- Crab claw
- Driver
- Extra
- Fisherman
- Junk sail
- Lateen
- Lug sail
- Mainsail
- Moonraker
- Parafoil
- Ringtail
- Rotorsail
- Royal
- Screecher
- Skysail
- Spanker
- Spinnaker
- Spritsail
- Staysail
- Studding
- Topgallant
- Topsail
- Trysail
- Turbosail
- Watersail
- Wingsail
Sail anatomy
[edit | edit source]- Sail material
- Parts of a sail
Sailing vessel design and physics
[edit | edit source]Stability of sailing vessels
[edit | edit source]- Turtling (sailing)
- Angle of loll
- Broach (nautical)
- Death roll
- Drogue
- Limit of positive stability
- Metacentric height
- Naval architecture
- Ship stability
- Weight distribution
Sailing activity
[edit | edit source]Sport sailing
[edit | edit source]Sailing (sport) – using sailboats for sporting purposes. It can be recreational or competitive. Competitive sailing is in the form of races.
- Types of races
- Fleet racing – involves sailboats racing one another over a set course. It is the most common form of sailboat racing.
- Match racing – racing between two competitors, going head-to-head.
- Team racing – also known as teams racing, is a popular form of dinghy racing and yacht racing. Two teams consisting of 2, 3, or 4 boats compete together in a race, all the boats being of the one class and reasonably evenly matched. The results of each team are combined to decide the winner
- Race formats and sailing sport events
- Short course racing
- Coastal/Inshore racing
- Offshore racing
- Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race[2]
- Transpacific Yacht Race
- Fastnet Race[3]
- Bermuda Race
- Hamilton Island Race Week
- Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac
- Governors Cup[4]
- South Atlantic Race[5]
- Oceanic racing
- Volvo Ocean Race (formerly called the Whitbread Round the World Race)
- Global Challenge
- Clipper Round the World Race.
- Racing Rules of Sailing
- Ruling bodies
Locations related to sailing
[edit | edit source]Sailing organizations
[edit | edit source]Sailing publications
[edit | edit source]- Australian Sailing
- Blue Water Sailing
- Boat International Media
- International Boat Industry
- Motor Boats Monthly
- Practical Boat Owner
- SuperYacht Business
- Yacht Harbour
- Yachting
- Yachting Monthly
- Yachting World
Persons influential or notable in sailing
[edit | edit source]Notable sailing vessels
[edit | edit source]- American Sailboat Hall of Fame
- List of large sailing yachts
- List of schooners
- List of large sailing vessels
- List of clipper ships
- List of longest wooden ships
- List of large sailing sloops
- List of large sailing vessels
See also
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References
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- ^ Rol ex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, 630 nm
- ^ Royal Ocean Racing Club
- ^ The Governor's Cup, Cape Town to St. Helena Island, 1690 nautical miles (nm)
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External links
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- American Sailing Association
- US Sailing
- The physics of sailing (School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
- File:Wikivoyage-Logo-v3-icon.svg Cruising on small craft travel guide from Wikivoyage
