Barquentine - a vessel with the foremast rigged square, and the other masts rigged fore and aft.
Barra Boats - Vessels of the Western Isles of Scotland, with almost perfect V section.
Barquentine:
Sailing vessel with three or more masts. Square rigged on foremast, fore and aft rigged on all others.
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A sailing ship with three to five masts, all square-rigged except the after mast (last), which is fore-and-aft rigged.
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Barquentine: A vessel with three or more masts with square sails on the foremast, and fore and aft sails on the main and after masts. Generally in the 250 - 500 ton range.
Bowsprit: A spar projecting from the upper end of the bow of a sailing vessel.
Barkentine barquentine barketeen-3 Masted with Sq rigged on fore mast only with the main and mizen being fore and aft rigged .
Gaff rig remains the most popular rig for schooner and barquentine mainsails and other course sails, and spanker sails on a square rigged vessel are always gaff rigged.
But the pure types may be combined, in topsail schooner, brigantines, barquentines and barques, when the topsail, a quadrangular sail hanging from and fastened to a yard, slung by the middle, is combined with fore and aft sails.
It was successfully employed on small sailing boats, cutters, schooners, sloops and on the jigger mast of great sailing ships - the barques and barquentines. On the stamp to the right you can see a gaff sail without a boom.
 See also: Schooner, Sailing, Fore, Fore and aft, Gaff
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