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3193. Sailing Rigs

title text: I wanted to make the world's fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it's not a yawl anymore! It's a real ketch-22.

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Single panel comic. Title: common sailing rigs. There are 18 little drawings of sail boats of different designs. Lateen: single triangular sail with the mast closer to the narrow end of the triangle. Bermuda sloop: two triangles on either side of the mast, which runs parallel to their long edges Ketch: like the Bermuda sloop, but it has a second mast with a single smaller triangle after the pair Gaff rigged sloop: A triangular sail on the front of the mast, with a trapezoidal sail (small side to the mast) on the back Yawl: like the Ketch, but the second mast and sail is tiny and further to the back of the boat Schooner: A combination of triangular and trapezoidal sails on two large masts. Ketch-rigged gaff: A single large mast with a front triangular sail and the back sails a pair of triangles flipped on their sides and a trapezoid also on it's side Alt-text for the previous image (continued) Kloop-rigged sketch: two large masts with a variety of sails on the first and a single large triangle on the back of the second Bunkbed rig: A gaff rigged sloop, but the boat has a second boat attached to the bottom Flettner rig: a rectangular sail spinning very fast Opps, all spinnakers: three masts with sails that are only attached at the very top and hanging limp Keel rig: a boat with the sails for a ktech rigged on the bottom (into the water) Kite rig: 8 kites split in two groups and tied to the mast Longsail rig: a Bermuda sloop rig, but the back sail is far longer than the length of the boat Deckhand obliterator: a pair of anchors mounted on the mast and swinging back and forth Offset rig: a mast far out front with sails in a gaff rigged sloop formation, attached to a boat by a long rod that goes under bottom of the boat Mastless rig: a large piece of fabric being held up by one corner and blow about wildly Unclassifiable chaos rig: 4 large masts, two of which are at a 45 degree angle to the deck of the boat, there are many sails in both triangular and trapazoidal shapes