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LEECH LUFF EDGE [3 records]

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Record 1 2018-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ship and Boat Parts
  • Pleasure Boating and Yachting
CONT

A gaff sail is a fore-and-aft sail with four corners and four edges. The lowest edge is called the foot and is attached to a horizontal spar called a boom. The vertical edge that is attached to the mast is called the luff; the upper edge is called the head and is attached to a spar called a gaff. The remaining edge is the leech. The corner between the luff and the head is called the throat, between the head and the leech is the peak, between the leech and the foot is the clew, and the remaining corner is called the tack.

OBS

Schooners are usually rigged with gaff sails, and most square rigged vessels have a gaff sail on their aft mast called the spanker. Above the gaff is often rigged a triangular sail called a gaff topsail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parties des bateaux
  • Yachting et navigation de plaisance
CONT

La voile à corne est située en arrière du mât sur lequel elle pivote, ce qui simplifie les virements de bord. Le haut de la voile est envergué sur un espar, appelé pic ou corne, qui se termine par une fourche - l'encornat - permettant l'articulation autour du mât. Le bas de la voile peut être dénué d'espar, (dans ce cas on dit voile à bordure libre), ou solidaire d'une bôme. Bien qu'elles ne soient guère supérieures aux voiles tiers, les voiles à cornes ont la réputation d'être plus faciles à manœuvrer.

OBS

Il est fréquent de confondre «voile à corne» et «voile aurique». Or la voile aurique désigne toutes les voiles longitudinales quadrangulaires au même titre que les autres types de voile comme la livarde ou la voile au tiers.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
DEF

A Fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel, originally and still typically having two masts, although multimasted schooners were tried for a short time late in the days of sail.

OBS

Fore-and-aft sail : A sail designed to have a leading edge(Luff) and a trailing edge(Leech) cut in a triangular or quadrilateral shape, but neither square nor rectangular.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
DEF

Navire à voiles à deux mâts, appelés mât de misaine et grand mât et munis, outre les focs, flèches et voiles d'étai, de voiles goélettes, c.-à-d. auriques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de barcos
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Record 3 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Transport

French

Domaine(s)
  • Transport par eau
OBS

24 B.V.-S.L. 5-75

Spanish

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