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.
Sailing Rigs [Explained]
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[The comic contains views from the side of boats, each with a different sailing rig. All boats are oriented to the left of the comic.]
Lateen [a single triangular sail]
Bermuda rigged sloop [a front and rear triangular sail share a mast]
Ketch [two triangular sails as above, with an additional triangular sail on a second rear mast]
Gaff rigged sloop [front triangular sail shares mast with rear quadrilateral sail]
Yawl [two triangular sails share front mast and a much smaller aft mast holds a small aft]
Schooner [two triangular front sails share foreward mast with quadrilateral center sail. An aft mast supports a quadrilateral aft sail]
Ketch-rigged gaff [Resembles a gaff, with the aft sail reduced and two triangular sails mounted above. The resulting shape resembles a vertical ketch]
Kloop-rigged sketch: [Includes elements of ketch and sloop]
Bunkbed rig [A gaff-rigged sloop is mounted on top of a second hull]
Flettner rig [The rectangular outline of a cylinder with motion lines around it]
Oops, all spinnakers [three masts each with a sail only attached to the top]
Keel rig [three sails in a ketch arrangement, but mounted to the keel]
Kite rig [all sails are replaced by two groups of kites, each tied to the mast with an independent line]
Longsail rig [bermuda rigged sloop with the aft sail extending ~5 times as far back, well beyond the end of the hull]
Deckhand obliterator [all sails replaced by an anchor that swings around the mast on a chain, similar to tetherball]
Offset rig [gaff rigged sloop sails are mounted on a mast that is offset (forward) from the hull via an underwater extension of the keel]
Mastless rig [a single sail is attached where the mast would normally be mounted, flapping around freely]
Unclassifiable chaos rig [includes elements of the schooner, yawl, lateen, and possibly others]