Hey, I am developing a game system based around realistic sailing, and one of the things I wanted was for players to be able to design their own sail plan. Keep in mind, I have no experience with sailing (but boy do I want to some day).
I was wondering if anyone on here had experience sailing with a Lateen Rig system. What are your experiences with it? Does it feel different from other sail plans?
Thanks in advance.
Hello! I am both a lubber AND a reddit noob, so bear with me please.
Looking for some info on how a lateen sail would be furled & unfurled while coming in & out of port. Looking specifically for how a fairly large ship would do so... something like a three-masted Barbary Xebec, or similar. Im sure the sails have to be furled while in port, but not seeing a good way for the sails to be unfurled if the yard is up & in position. So would one be at port with the yard on deck, untie the sail and then raise the yard? Or somehow climb up the mast to untie the sail after the yard is up?? Youtube & google & searching Reddit haven't been helpful-- YET! I found lots of videos of how to sail such a vessel, but nothing of one "taking off" as it were.
Can someone walk me through the process, step-by-step of setting sail from port?
im just wondering. When will the game get Lateen type sails? (triangle shaped sails)
it would open up more ways to sail your ship.
Basically the title. I might have seen every photo or diagram of an Oceanic Lateen rig that exists on the Internet at this point, but none of them are detailed enough for me to figure out how to build one, let alone detailed enough for me to figure out how to make one more single-hand friendly, which I'm going to need to do.
Does the heel of the sail slot into the hull or something, or is it just tensioned there by a line? How's it attached to the mast in such a way that the sail can freely flip over when the boat shunts? And how is the mast stepped that allows it to flop around without getting everything else tangled or otherwise screwed up?
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I tried to find the answer in wikipedia, but I found all sorts of theories
The ones that made more sense to me where that the Polynesians developed them first and then they spread to Europe, but there are also plenty of serious theories that propose that someone introduced the Polynesians to them: the greeks, the romans, the arabs, have your pick.
Then whomever introduced the Polynesians to this technology supposedly didn't develop it that much until around the 1700 for some reason when apparently the Dutch started using them?.
To be honest these theories where the Polynesians didn't develop this technology seem wrong to me, ,to be completely honest, it seems like people don't want to admit that the "savage" Polynesians developed a technology that the Europeans didn't, and they just want to look for a way in which they developed it first and just never used it.
Anyway, that's why I come to you, maybe I'm wrong and these theories have good evidence to back them up. Maybe this technology was developed more than once, that's also possible.
I recently purchased a Glastron Alpha dinghy and the sails are pretty rough. The seller mentioned there were light wind sails that once came with it, but he could not find them. Since it seems this boat isnt nearly as popular as others, I'm wondering if I could purchase new sails for another dinghy, like the Sunfish, and use them on it. Are Lateen rig sails generally compatible like this, or am I out of luck?
Better said in pics than words. https://www.conservapedia.com/images/thumb/f/fa/Caravel.jpg/200px-Caravel.jpg https://imgur.com/bAoJtdC
How would one move the yard so it's facing the other direction?
In image 1, the wind is pushing the canvas against the mast and yard, like if you were sailing directly upwind with a square rigger
In image 2, the wind is pushing the canvas away from the yard, like you'd normally expect it.
In Uncharted Waters Online, the animation has the crew bring in all the lateen sails, somehow rotate it around like this: https://imgur.com/a/sW81zGJ
Ignoring the shittiness of my paint drawings, is this realistic?
If realistic, how did the crew go and turn the yard the other way around? How does it not mess the rigging up and force re-rigging everything from scratch? What if the sails aren't a perfect right-angled triangles, thus causing assymetry between the yard being on one side over the other
If not realistic, how would one sail close hauled if the wind is blowing from the side where the sails are? Putting the wind on the other side would cause the ship to go way off course, no?
I've been big on naval history and have a deep fascination with ships for years now. The question above pretty much outlines it: why did vessels go from square sales to lateen sales to square again?
Thanks guys!
Building an 18' canoe out of fiberglass and looking for diagrams for a lateen rig set up (mast diameter size and sail measurements. Any info will be appreciated!
I am curious to know where the Lateen Sail originated from because it seems there is little information known about it. I know it did not originate in Europe, but I have heard mixed origins for it which include Asia, Indonesia, the Indian Ocean region.
I've sailed in this boat for a while, and only recently did I decide to keep it out of the water for a whole slough of repairs. Plenty of it I can handle, like patching sails, cutting a new daggerboard/rudder. What I wanted advice on was glassing the hull. It's a foam hull with plastic on the bottom that is slowly falling apart. I would take that plastic off, but leave the plastic that is on the inside of the boat, because that's perfectly fine. Will epoxy resin melt through the foam, and will it stick to the plastic on the inside where the fiberglass overlaps?
A new type of sail for our ships, which we hope it will increase their speed and their reach...
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