Sloop

A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast^[1] typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast.^{[note 1]} Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sails fore and aft, or as a gaff-rig with triangular foresail(s) and a gaff rigged mainsail.

In naval terminology, "

Before the Bermuda rig became popular outside of Bermuda in the early Twentieth Century, a (non-Bermudian) sloop might carry one or more square-rigged topsails which will be hung from a topsail yard and be supported from below by a crossjack.^[6]

A sloop's headsail may be masthead-rigged or fractional-rigged. On a masthead-rigged sloop, the

Gallery

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  cutter rig

  for other examples of headsails.
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  Gunter-rigged

  sloop
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  Gaff-rigged sloop with a headsail and a gaff topsail
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  Spritsail sloop
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  Sloop sail with multiple foresails and topsail

See also

• Mast aft rig
  , a single mast rig with a mast further back than a sloop or cutter
• Chialoup, an historical type of sloop produced in the East Indies
• Bermuda sloop, originally used for a type of sea-going, sloop-rigged vessel. Today used for any Bermuda-rigged sloop
• Bermuda Fitted Dinghy: a scaled-down sloop used for racing in Bermuda

Notes

References

1. ^ "SLOOP | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
2. ^
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3. ISBN 978-0-7603-1002-1
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4. ^ "Sloop". dictionary.com. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
5. ^ "Cutter | sailing craft". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
6. ^ Samuel Fallows (1885). Progressive Dictionary of the English Language. Progressive. p. 148.

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