aft's Usage Examples:

mainsail aft of (behind) the mast.

Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sails fore and aft, or.

On a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, it is the sail rigged aft of the main mast.

sail plans that propel sailing ships, employing square-rigged or fore-and-aft sails.

A fore-and-aft rig is a sailing vessel rigged mainly with sails set along the line of the keel, rather than perpendicular to it as on a square rigged.

Configurations differ for each type of rigging, between fore-and-aft rigged vessels and square-rigged vessels.

masts sail plan: square sails, fore-and-aft rigged sails.

Fore-and-aft rig features sails that run fore and aft (along the length of the sailing craft).

The first, held soon after the ship's loss, concluded that Hood's aft magazine had exploded after one of Bismarck's shells penetrated the ship's.

only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore and aft.

Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a square-rigged sail above.

term "trim" is defined as the difference between the forward and aft drafts.

The draft aft (stern) is measured in the perpendicular of the stern.

The draft.

(configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar (pole).

fore-and-aft rig consists of sails that are set along the line of the keel rather than perpendicular to it.

Vessels so rigged are described as fore-and-aft rigged.

A mast-aft rig is a sailboat sail-plan that uses a single mast set in the aft half of the hull.

a two-masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), generally in a 40-foot or bigger boat.

having one or more masts support only a fore-and aft sail or having a mast that only has two segments.

The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter.

The main mast of a brig is the aft one.

To improve maneuverability, the mainmast carries a small (gaff rigged) fore-and-aft sail.

Brig sails are named after.

The lug sail, or lugsail, is a fore-and-aft, four-cornered sail that is suspended from a spar, called a yard.

Synonyms:

abaft; astern;

Antonyms:

stay in place; negate; fore;