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Knowledgeable comparison of schooners, ketches, yawls, sloops, and cutters, Covers the gaff and Bermudan rigs from the point of efficiency and handiness. Illustrated with some of Brewers mouth-watering classic designs in all rigs.
[Ted Brewer Yacht Design, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada]
Some features of a boat are attractive for one type of cruising but limiting or even dangerous for others: interior arrangements, cockpits, sail plans, and hull shapes are discussed briefly.
[SailNet, 14 April 2003]
The history and theory of a rig with a mast stepped well aft, one gigantic genoa jib, and or without a small free-luff mainsail. Advantages include a lower center of effort, removal of the dangerous boom, ease of furling off the wind, and others.
[Boat Design Net, Beaver Island, MI, USA]
A long list of the inefficiencies of traditional mainsails, and an interesting argument for boomless and mastless sails. Sail plan diagrams.
[Running Tide Yachts, Ltd., Bethesda, MD, USA]
An introduction to the intricacies of matching a sailing rig to your needs - and your hull and keel shape. Schooners and gaffers are given sympathetic treatment.
[Kasten Marine Design, Inc., Port Townsend, WA, USA]
The author tells why ishbone rigs are among the most powerful and efficient in the world.
[SailNet]
Interested in schooners, gaffers and other traditional rigs? Here′s a widely-supported set of forums on building/repair, designs/plans, people and places, and other topics. There is a lot of advice here, and the chance to ask your own questions. You can also search the back issues index by keyword, then order the issue or find it in your library.
[WoodenBoat Publications, Brooklin, ME, USA]
Account of the early trials (as in tribulations) of a proa with a the crab-claw sail rig.
[Proafile, Issaquah, WA, USA]
Comparisons of eight different rigs suitable for the two-bowed proa hull design, i.e. can be reversed to sail the boat in either direction. Suitable for sailing canoes and similar designs.
[Proafile, Issaquah, WA, USA]
Brief grab bag of facts and commentary about alternative rigs. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
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