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3 letter answer(s) to triangular sailJIB
6 letter answer(s) to triangular sailLATEEN
Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Triangular sail'Still struggling to solve the crossword clue 'Triangular sail'?If you're still haven't solved the crossword clue Triangular sail then why not search our database by the letters you have already! crosswordsolver.com is not affiliated with SCRABBLE®, Mattel®, Spear®, Hasbro®, Zynga® with Friends, "Wordle" by NYTimes in any way. The use of these trademarks on crosswordsolver.com is for informational purposes only.  A lateen (from French latine, meaning "Latin"[1]) or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction. The lateen is widely believed to have appeared in the eastern Mediterranean as early as the 2nd century CE, during Roman times, possibly imported from Egypt or the Persian Gulf. Its effective use by the Arabs caused its rapid spread throughout the Mediterranean, contributing significantly to the resurgence of medieval commerce.[2] It is very common in the northwestern parts of the Indian Ocean and the eastern Mediterranean sea, where it is the standard rig for feluccas and dhows. The western rigs called "lateen" today are actually crab claw sails (also called "Oceanic lateen") derived from the sailing rigs of the Austronesian peoples in the Indo-Pacific. They differ from actual Mediterranean lateen sails in that they have a spar on both the head and the foot of the sail. They are used on small recreational boats like the highly popular Sailfish and Sunfish. History[edit]Introduction into Mediterranean Sea[edit]The lateen is believed to have appeared in the eastern Mediterranean as early as the 2nd century CE, during Roman times, possibly imported from Egypt or the Persian Gulf.[3] A precursor of this kind of fore-and-aft rig was the spritsail, which some claim appeared in the 2nd century BC in the Aegean Sea on small Greek craft.[4] The lateen sail originated somewhat later during the Roman empire in the Mediterranean Sea.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] It evolved out of the dominant square rig by setting the sails more fore-and-aft — along the line of the keel — rather than athwartship, while tailoring the luff and leech.[15] Byzantine ship rigged with settee sail (miniature from c. 880)[16] Both types of lateen were likely used from an early date on: a 2nd-century AD gravestone depicts a quadrilateral lateen sail (also known as a settee), while a 4th-century mosaic shows a triangular one, which was to become the standard rig throughout the Middle Ages.[4] According to the Belgian maritime historian Lucien Basch, the true lateen rig appears as early as the 1st century BC, in a Hellenistic wall painting found in a Hypogeum in Alexandria.[17] The earliest archaeologically excavated ship that has been reconstructed with a lateen rig is dated to ca. 400 AD (Yassi Ada II), with a further four being attested prior to the Arab advance to the Mediterranean.[18] The Kelenderis ship mosaic (late 5th to early 6th century)[19][20] and the Kellia ship graffito from the early 7th century complement the picture.[20] By the 6th century, the lateen sail had largely replaced the square sail throughout the Mediterranean, the latter almost disappearing from Mediterranean iconography until the mid-13th century.[21] It became the standard rig of the Byzantine dromon war galley and was probably also employed by Belisarius' flagship in the 532 AD invasion of the Vandal kingdom.[17][22] The fully triangular lateen and the settee continued to coexist in the middle Byzantine period, as evidenced by Christian iconography,[16] as well as a recent find of a graffito in the Yenikapı excavations.[23] In the 12th to 13th centuries the rigging underwent a change when the hook-shaped masthead made way for an arrangement more akin to a barrel-like crow's nest.[24] After the Muslim conquests, the Arabs adopted the lateen sail by way of the Coptic populace, which shared the existing Mediterranean maritime tradition and continued to provide the bulk of galley crews for Muslim-led fleets for centuries to come.[25] This is also indicated by the terminology of the lateen among Mediterranean Arabs which is derived from Greco-Roman nomenclature.[26] More detailed research into their early use of the lateen is hampered by a distinct lack of unequivocal depictions of sailing rigs in early Islamic art.[27] A glazed pottery dish from Saracenic Dénia dating to the 11th century is at present the earliest securely identifiable example found in the Mediterranean.[27] Nile River[edit]From the Mediterranean, the lateen sail spread to the Nile River in Egypt, where the lateen-rigged felucca was developed.[28] Diffusion to Indian Ocean[edit]Dhow with lateen sail in "bad tack" with the sail pressing against the mast, in Mozambique. The emergence of new evidence for the development and spread of the lateen sail in the ancient Mediterranean in recent decades has led to a reevaluation of the role of Arab seafaring in the Indian Ocean in that process.
There has been according to some a reversal of the earlier scholarly opinion on the direction of diffusion of the lateen rig in the Indian Ocean and its gulfs. According to them searches for lateen sails in India were inconclusive.[31] Since lateen sails were absent from Indian inland waters, that is in regions remote from foreign influences, as late as the mid-20th century, the hypothesis of an Indian origin appears a priori implausible.[32] The earliest evidence for the lateen in Islamic art adjacent to the Indian Ocean occurs in a 13th-century Egyptian artifact which, though, is assumed to show a Mediterranean vessel.[33] Excavated depictions of Muslim vessels along the Eastern African coast uniformly show square sails before 1500.[34] However, these over-confindent and subjective assertions cannot continue to be sustained, as a recent discovering of a pot shred from Sri Lanka dating back to 3nd century BC shows triangular sail on a rigger.[35][36] A terracotta seal from Chandraketugarh according to J. Deloche may represent furled lateen sail.[37] Boats depicted in Chamardi rock cave painting dated to Maitraka dynasty from 5th century-7th century AD (but sometimes dated as late as 10th, 12th or 14th century) provides evidence of two Kotiya ships with lateen sail also with mounted rudder.[38] Fore and aft sail has also been depicted in Ajantha ship painting of 6th century AD.[39] According to archaeologist Daniel T Potts, An iron age pendant from Tell Abraq also shows one of the earliest depiction of lateen sails dated 1000–500 BC[40] After 1500, the situation in the Indian Ocean dramatically changed, with nearly all vessels now being lateen rigged.[33] As Mediterranean hull design and construction methods are known to have been subsequently adopted by Eastern Muslim shipbuilders, it is assumed that this process also included the lateen rigging of the novel caravel. Later development[edit]the Bracera: a traditional lateen-rigged sailboat of the Mediterreanean A 17th-century woodcut of a triangular-sailed Bermudian vessel. Its raked masts were a development of the lateen. Until the 14th century, the lateen sail was employed primarily on the Mediterranean Sea, while the Atlantic and Baltic (and Indian Ocean) vessels relied on square sails. The Northern European adoption of the lateen in the Late Middle Ages was a specialized sail that was one of the technological developments in shipbuilding that made ships more maneuverable, thus, in the historian's traditional progression, permitting merchants to sail out of the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic Ocean; caravels typically mounted three or more lateens. However, the great size of the lateen yardarm makes it difficult and dangerous to handle on larger ships in stormy weather, and with the development of the carrack, the lateen was restricted to the mizzen mast. In the early nineteenth century, the lateen was replaced in European ships by the driver or spanker. The lateen survived as a rigging choice for mainsails of small craft where local conditions were favorable. For instance, barge-like vessels in the American maritimes north of Boston, called gundalows, carried lateen rigs throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Likewise, lateen sail survived in the Baltic until the late 19th century. Because the yard pivots on its point of attachment to the mast, the entire sail and yard can be swiftly dropped. This was an advantage when navigating the tidal riverways of the region, which often required passage under bridges. The balancelle, a Mediterranean coasting and fishing boat of the 19th century, also used a single lateen sail. One of the disadvantages of the lateen in the modern form described below is the fact that it has a "bad tack". The sail is to the side of the mast, on one tack that puts the mast directly against the sail on the leeward side, where it can significantly interfere with the airflow over the sail. On the other tack the sail is pushed away from the mast, greatly reducing the interference. On modern lateens, with their typically shallower angles, this tends to disrupt the airflow over a larger area of the sail.[citation needed] However, there are forms of the lateen rig, as in vela latina canaria, where the spar is changed from one side to the other when tacking. This way the rig doesn't suffer these airflow disruptions that come from the sail pushed against the mast.[41] The lateen sail can also be tacked by loosening the yard upper brace, tightening the lower brace until the yard is in vertical position, and twisting the yard on the other side of the mast by a tack. Another way of tacking with a lateen sail is to loosen the braces, lift the yard vertical, detach the sheet and tack, and turn the sail on the other side of the mast in front of the mast, and reattach the sheet and tack. This method is described in Björn Landström's The Ship.[citation needed] The lateen rig was also the ancestor of the Bermuda rig, by way of the Dutch bezaan rig. In the 16th century, when Spain ruled the Netherlands, the lateen rigs were introduced to Dutch boat builders, who soon modified the design by omitting the mast and fastening the lower end of the yard directly to the deck, the yard becoming a raked mast with a full-length, triangular (leg-of-mutton) mainsail aft. Introduced to Bermuda early in the 17th century, this developed into the Bermuda rig, which, in the 20th century, was adopted almost universally for small sailing vessels.[citation needed] Comparison to square rig[edit]It is a widespread misconception that the lateen rig replaced square rig because of better windward performance and greater manoeuvrability. A study of the relative effectiveness of the two shows that their performance was actually very similar. These results apply both when working to windward and when sailing downwind. It is suggested that differences in performance are derived more from the hull shape than the type of rig. It is concluded that there was no evolutionary technological development that gave improved sailing performance in the early mediaeval change from the Mediterranean square rig to lateen, and that factors other than, for instance, windward performance must have dictated the this change.[42] Independent invention in Austronesia[edit]The "V"-shaped and ancestrally mastless rig known as crab claw sail of the seafaring Austronesian peoples is sometimes misleadingly known as the "Oceanic lateen" or "Oceanic sprit". Despite this, it is an independent and more ancient invention driven by the island geography of Austronesian sailors. It is believed to have originally been invented at no later than 1500 BC. It may have also caused the unique invention of the outrigger boats of Austronesians, because of the inherent instability that crab-claw sails introduced to small watercraft. It differs from the Mediterranean lateen rig in that it has a supporting spar on the lower edge of the sail and originally had no fixed masts. It spread from the Austronesian homelands in Island Southeast Asia to Island Melanesia, Micronesia, Madagascar, and Polynesia during the Austronesian Expansion.[43][obsolete source] Modern small-boat lateen sails[edit]The modern "lateen" is more accurately a crab claw sail than a traditional loose-footed Mediterranean lateen. They are characterized by the addition of a spar along the foot of the sail. The lower spar is horizontal and is attached to the mast where it crosses. The front ends of both spars are joined. Both joints are designed to allow free rotation in all directions. The sheet is attached to the lower spar and the halyard to the upper spar. The geometry of the sail is such that the upper and lower spars are confined to a plane parallel to the mast. This results in the sail conforming a conic section, identical to half of the Rogallo wing commonly found in kites and hang gliders. The modern lateen is often used as a simple rig for catboats and other small recreational sailing craft. In its most basic form, it requires only two lines, a halyard and a sheet, making it very simple to operate. Often, additional lines are used to pull down the lower spar and provide tension along the upper and lower spars, providing greater control over the sail shape. Since the upper and lower spars provide a frame for the sail, the camber of the sail is simply a function of how tightly the spars stretch the sail. This means that lateen sails are often cut flat, without the complex cutting and stitching required to provide camber in Bermuda rig sails. Curved edges, when mated with the straight spars, provide all or nearly all of the sail curvature needed. See also[edit]
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What is the name of a small triangular sail?A lateen (from French latine, meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction.
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