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Vinony's link graph records 698 inbound references to Lateen sails, and connects out to Mediterranean Sea, Arabs and mast.
Vinony files it under Galleons and Lateen-rigged sailboats.
Vinony links it to 27 Wikipedia language editions.
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- sail
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- Lateen sails
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Mediterranean origin
- Nile River
- Diffusion to Indian Ocean
- Later development
- The bad tack
- Lateen replacement of square rig
- See also
- Citations
- General and cited sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|The lateen sail
A lateen (; ), also called a latin-rig, is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction. The settee can be considered to be an associated type of the same overall category of sail.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lateen sails” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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