Configuration of mast and rigging for a type of sailboat
J-Class sail plan with Bermuda Rig c. 1930
A Bermuda rig, Bermudian rig, or Marconi rig is a configuration of mast and rigging for a type of sailboat and is the typical configuration for most modern sailboats. This configuration was developed in Bermuda in the 17th century; the term Marconi, a reference to the inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi, became associated with this configuration in the early 20th century, because the wires that stabilize the mast of a Bermuda rig reminded observers of the wires on early radio masts.[1]
^Stephens, William P. (January 1942). Memories of American Yachting—The Rig. New York: Motor Boating. pp. 104–6.
A Bermudarig, Bermudian rig, or Marconi rig is a configuration of mast and rigging for a type of sailboat and is the typical configuration for most modern...
fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermudarig with triangular sails fore and aft, or as a gaff-rig with triangular foresail(s) and a gaff rigged mainsail...
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the headsail and mainsail in Bermudarigs, although the benefits of the "slot effect" are disputed. Hybrids between a Bermuda sail and junk sail exist as...
such a vessel a brigantine. Many schooners are gaff-rigged, but other examples include Bermudarig and the staysail schooner.: 211 : 26 : 100 : 48 The...
"gaff" (as in gaff rig).: 38 The overall shape of a gunter sail is roughly triangular, so having a superficial resemblance to Bermudarig. A gunter sail...
rig was also the ancestor of the Bermudarig, by way of the Dutch bezaan rig. In the 16th century, when Spain ruled the Netherlands, the lateen rigs were...
beamy and (usually) shallow draft hull. Typically they are gaff rigged, though Bermudarig is also used. Most are fitted with a centreboard, although some...
ship design in Bermuda that stretches back to the earliest decades of the 17th century. The Bermudarig, also known as a Marconi rig, refers to a configuration...
merchants, privateers and the Royal Navy, giving its name to the Bermudarig and Bermuda sloop. It became an imperial fortress, the most important British...
mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen...
schooners are Bermudarigged. The most common modern sailboat is the sloop, which features one mast and two sails, typically a Bermudarigged main, and a...
suggested many possible origins but remain uncertain, but given its sailing rig and general design, it likely evolved from some kind of Mediterranean tending...
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built in Bermuda between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Fitted with a gaff rig, a combination of gaff and square rig, or Bermudarig, they were...
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mizzen mast is smaller and set further back. There are versions of the ketch rig that only has a mainsail and a mizzen, in which case they are referred to...
studies of sail types show that crab sail performance improves over Bermudarigs, as the point of sail deviates from close hauled. The configuration has...
topsails, like gaff rigs in general, may still be seen at tall ships gatherings. The gaff rig has been largely superseded by the Bermudarig, which has no topsails...
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