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Bruce in Bangkok[_2_]
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America's Cup sail design
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:15:04 GMT,
(Richard
Casady) wrote:
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:12:45 -0500, Gogarty
wrote:
lo and behold! up pops Maltese Falcon, which is a square rigged ship, i.e.,
three masts with square sails on all three. A very interesting rig, but
very retro and also very fast.
I think it was clipper ship Flying Cloud that did more than 400 miles
in 24 hours. I call that fast. Only thing wrong with a square rig is
that they don't go to windward all that well.
Casady
Quite a lot of interesting information at
http://www.eraoftheclipperships.com/
regarding these ships and their histories.
Bruce-in-Bangkok
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