A fore-and-aft yachting rig with a tall tapering mainsail.
(游艇的)百慕大帆装(带高耸的尖型主帆的纵向帆装)
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A gaff is preferable to a Bermuda rig for most offshore conditions.
He claims that the efficiency of the junk rig also has other advantages: The sails needn't be made of high-tech materials, and compared to Bermuda rigs, these are the most quiet sails available because they don't slat and snap against the rigging; there isn't any rigging.
For boats equipped with a Bermuda rig the following rule shall apply.
She will easily sail through 90 degree tacks to windward, and off the wind, the Bermuda rig provides excellent performance.
The sail plan of the original Potter 14 was a Gunter-style, however by 1975, it had been modified to a Bermuda rig.
It was a special wish of professor Albert Einstein that the sailing boat was equipped with a Bermuda rig.
The rig is heavier than a standard gaff or Bermuda rig of the same sail area (but not by much).
Lateens, sprits, gaffs and Bermuda rigs could nuzzle right up to the wind for better speed and maneuverability.
The yachts shown are two cutters, a schooner, a sloop with Bermuda rig much like our modern Marconi rig, and a lugger.
They have long overhangs and tall Bermuda rigs and they raced in the Spirit of Tradition Class.
Her pre-war owner reported how she once raced from Concarneau to Benodet. - ‘We were home and stowed before the Bermuda rigs came in’.
It relates in particular to those battens which are found on the mainsail of a Bermuda rig, i.e. in the most common rig type in sailing boats for leisure use and regatta purposes.
One of the main advantages of the boat is the use of a mast and vertical spar to achieve the same mast height and sail area as the Bermuda rig would set.
The gaff rig has 34 square feet more sail area than does the Bermuda rig.
I would like to retain the traditional rig, but limitations caused by inability to reef and danger in raising/lowering the mainsail has provided thought to altering to a more manageable fully battened Bermuda rig.
Definition of Bermuda rig in US English:
Bermuda rig
noun
Sailing
A tall yachting rig with a high, tapering fore-and-aft mainsail.
(游艇的)百慕大帆装(带高耸的尖型主帆的纵向帆装)
Example sentencesExamples
They have long overhangs and tall Bermuda rigs and they raced in the Spirit of Tradition Class.
It was a special wish of professor Albert Einstein that the sailing boat was equipped with a Bermuda rig.
The sail plan of the original Potter 14 was a Gunter-style, however by 1975, it had been modified to a Bermuda rig.
A gaff is preferable to a Bermuda rig for most offshore conditions.
It relates in particular to those battens which are found on the mainsail of a Bermuda rig, i.e. in the most common rig type in sailing boats for leisure use and regatta purposes.
Lateens, sprits, gaffs and Bermuda rigs could nuzzle right up to the wind for better speed and maneuverability.
He claims that the efficiency of the junk rig also has other advantages: The sails needn't be made of high-tech materials, and compared to Bermuda rigs, these are the most quiet sails available because they don't slat and snap against the rigging; there isn't any rigging.
For boats equipped with a Bermuda rig the following rule shall apply.
She will easily sail through 90 degree tacks to windward, and off the wind, the Bermuda rig provides excellent performance.
Her pre-war owner reported how she once raced from Concarneau to Benodet. - ‘We were home and stowed before the Bermuda rigs came in’.
I would like to retain the traditional rig, but limitations caused by inability to reef and danger in raising/lowering the mainsail has provided thought to altering to a more manageable fully battened Bermuda rig.
The yachts shown are two cutters, a schooner, a sloop with Bermuda rig much like our modern Marconi rig, and a lugger.
The gaff rig has 34 square feet more sail area than does the Bermuda rig.
One of the main advantages of the boat is the use of a mast and vertical spar to achieve the same mast height and sail area as the Bermuda rig would set.
The rig is heavier than a standard gaff or Bermuda rig of the same sail area (but not by much).