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Frogwatch wrote:

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Anyone tell me how a vessel equipped with lanteen sails goes about
without dropping its sail and resetting it on the other side.
Many thanks

Having built and sailed two small sailboats with LATEEN rigs, I can
answer. You tack just as you would in any other sailboat. Both spars
of the sail (boom and gaff) are one side of the mast on either tack.
This does not matter at all because the pportion of the sail
immediately adjacent to the mast is very small and low compared to the
huge portion of the sail that is far from and undistorted by the
mast.. A Lateen rig is a great way to get a huge sail on a small boat
without using a tall mast.

It's pretty much the same way of sailing as a standing lugsail - you go
about but leave the sail where it was. It means that the rig is less
efficient on one tack than t'other, but that's something that you just
live with.

Of course, with a big enough crew you /could/ drop the sail, swing the
yard to the other side of the mast and re-hoist. This is the same process
as is done with balanced lug rig - it gets a boost in efficiency in
sailing at the cost of going about more slowly - and of carrying many
extra pairs of hands.

As the other poster said, it's a great way to get a large sail area on a
small boat. Just be careful gybing.

--
Andy Breen ~ Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)

"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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"Jewel" wrote in message
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Anyone tell me how a vessel equipped with lanteen sails goes about
without dropping its sail and resetting it on the other side.
Many thanks


They don't go at all. There is no such thing as a lanteen sail or a
lanteen rig.

Wilbur Hubbard
Sorry - of course I meant Lateen

Jewel wrote:
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"Jewel" wrote in message
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Anyone tell me how a vessel equipped with lanteen sails goes about
without dropping its sail and resetting it on the other side.
Many thanks


They don't go at all. There is no such thing as a lanteen sail or a
lanteen rig.

Wilbur Hubbard

Sorry - of course I meant Lateen


Everyone else here knew what you meant...as did that poster but he chose
to be a butthead instead of being decent and replying with a suitable
answer.

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Jewel wrote:
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"Jewel" wrote in message
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Anyone tell me how a vessel equipped with lanteen sails goes about
without dropping its sail and resetting it on the other side.
Many thanks


They don't go at all. There is no such thing as a lanteen sail or a
lanteen rig.

Wilbur Hubbard

Sorry - of course I meant Lateen
Everyone else here knew what you meant...as did that poster but he
chose to be a butthead instead of being decent and replying with a
suitable answer.


Actually, I was more concerned with correcting a common mistake. We
sailors need to take pride in the proper use of sailing related
terminology.

Wilbur Hubbard

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:

Actually, I was more concerned with correcting a common mistake. We
sailors need to take pride in the proper use of sailing related
terminology.


Wilbur,

If that is what you intended it didn't come across like that. I knew
immediately what the OP meant, even though I have never heard that
mistake before; if you did too, there are gentler ways of letting down
someone new to the sport.

Regards
Andy

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Jewel wrote:
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"Jewel" wrote in message
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Anyone tell me how a vessel equipped with lanteen sails goes about
without dropping its sail and resetting it on the other side.
Many thanks


They don't go at all. There is no such thing as a lanteen sail or a
lanteen rig.

Wilbur Hubbard

Sorry - of course I meant Lateen
Everyone else here knew what you meant...as did that poster but he chose
to be a butthead instead of being decent and replying with a suitable
answer.


Actually, I was more concerned with correcting a common mistake. We
sailors need to take pride in the proper use of sailing related
terminology.

Wilbur Hubbard
Absolutely right of course. What he meant to say was...


"he chose to be an arsehole instead of being decent and replying with a
suitable answer."

Honestly, some people just don't know the correct terminology. Now we have
the pedantry over, can we get back to sailing?

Floatything

Frogwatch,

Before you cut off those Lateen Booms, thinks a bit. The Lateen Rig uses
a very simple mast; No sail track, No Boom jaws, No Gaff Jaws, No
complicated rigging on the gaff to shape the sail.

The Lateen is a very simple sail and by bringing the Booms together
with the sail coming to a point it can be kept simple.
AND

Watch Neal, using Wilbur's name, come Stalking with some kind of STUPID
comment(G)


http://community.webtv.net/tassail/ThomJazz
http://community.webtv.net/tassail/AGooddayTODAY

"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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Frogwatch,

Before you cut off those Lateen Booms, thinks a bit. The Lateen Rig
uses
a very simple mast; No sail track, No Boom jaws, No Gaff Jaws, No
complicated rigging on the gaff to shape the sail.

The Lateen is a very simple sail and by bringing the Booms together
with the sail coming to a point it can be kept simple.
AND

Watch Neal, using Wilbur's name, come Stalking with some kind of
STUPID
comment(G)


Ole Thom, you are a brilliant man. You used to sail the most desirable
sailboat of anybody here. You are slim, fit and handsome.

You know something? You were 100% correct about the STUPID comments BG

Wilbur Hubbard

Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
: "Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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:: Frogwatch,
::
:: Before you cut off those Lateen Booms, thinks a bit. The Lateen Rig
:: uses
:: a very simple mast; No sail track, No Boom jaws, No Gaff Jaws, No
:: complicated rigging on the gaff to shape the sail.
::
:: The Lateen is a very simple sail and by bringing the Booms together
:: with the sail coming to a point it can be kept simple.
:: AND
::
:: Watch Neal, using Wilbur's name, come Stalking with some kind of
:: STUPID
:: comment(G)
:
:
: Ole Thom, you are a brilliant man. You used to sail the most desirable
: sailboat of anybody here. You are slim, fit and handsome.

thom is more of a man than you'll ever be, neal. at least he's got the
cojones to post with his real name and not morph like a cowardly
net-abusing ****wit.
:
: You know something? You were 100% correct about the STUPID comments

agreed, but entirely unsurprised.

: BG
:
: Wilbur Hubbard

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Meow

I thought it was 'lateen' but I wanted to double check, so I
Googled 'Lanteen Sail'. There's a lot on 'Lanteen sails' on
the web. Are they all incorrect, or is it a case of tomato /
tomatoe?

Scotty


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"Jewel" wrote in message

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Anyone tell me how a vessel equipped with lanteen sails
goes about
without dropping its sail and resetting it on the other
side.
Many thanks


They don't go at all. There is no such thing as a
lanteen sail or a
lanteen rig.

Wilbur Hubbard
Sorry - of course I meant Lateen