what were sails made of in the beginning
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Sailboat Animal skins were used as sails for the earliest boats and rafts. The Egyptians and other ancient people wove reeds together in mats to make sails, but the Egyptians were also the first to make cloth sails as early as 3300 B.C. Great sailors of the Mediterranean region like the Phoenicians sailed under cloth sails.
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Lateen sail Lateen sail, triangular sail that was of decisive importance to medieval navigation. The ancient square sail permitted sailing only before the wind; the lateen was the earliest fore-and-aft sail. The triangular sail was affixed to a long yard or crossbar, mounted at its middle to the top of the mast and angled to extend aft far above the mast and forward down nearly to the deck.
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- Viking Ships. Arguably the greatest achievement of the Vikings was their boat and shipbuilding. The Vikings were not the first people to build ships but they did build the best ships anyone had made up to that time. The longship is part of the popular image of the Vikings today but there were many different types of boat for different purposes. so far no two boats have been found that are the same. There are some characteristics that make Viking boats distinctive.
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- In Ancient Egypt, textiles were used for many purposes, among them clothing, bags, sails, ropes, and nets. Ancient Egyptian textiles were primarily made of linen, which comes from the flax plant.Textiles were also made from palm fibers, grass, seeds, and much less frequently from sheep's wool and goat hair.n Ancient Egypt, textiles were used for many purposes, among them clothing, bags, sails, ropes, and nets. Ancient Egyptian textiles were primarily made of linen, which comes from the flax plant.
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Baseball (ball) In the early, mid-1800s days of baseball, there was a great variety in the size, shape, weight, and manufacturing of baseballs. Early baseballs were made from a rubber core from old, melted shoes, wrapped in yarn and leather. Fish eyes were also used as cores in some places.n the early, mid-1800s days of baseball, there was a great variety in the size, shape, weight, and manufacturing of baseballs. Early baseballs were made from a rubber core from old, melted shoes, wrapped in yarn and leather. Fish eyes were also used as cores in some places.
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Engineering the Medieval Achievement Materials: 1  Sails were made out of hemp or sometimes flax. 2  Sometimes wool was used to make sails since it was the major cloth of England, but it was much less useful a material, and was only used to patch old sails after the 1370s.
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Viking Ships: The Drakkar The sails of all Viking sailing ships, were made of wool from sheep or linen from the flax plant. Making them was the responsibility of Viking women. First, small diamond-shaped pieces were woven and then trimmed with leather. The leather helped the wool or linen pieces to keep their shape, especially when wet.
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- The oars from the two small boats of the Kincaid, which had been washed away by an off-shore wind the very night that the party had landed, had been in use to support the canvas of the sailcloth tents.
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History of ships Types of sails. While the speed of a rowed ship was mainly determined by the number of oarsmen in the crew, in sailing ships the total spread of canvas in the sails was the main determinant of speed.
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Viking Ships: The Drakkar The sail of a Viking ship was very expensive to make, often costing more than the rest of the ship itself. Sail design is often misrepresented in modern drawings and replicas. Tapestries from the Viking age show a cross-hatched pattern in the sail, a result of how it was made.
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- A total of 116 drugs (392 brand and generic names) are known to interact with PreserVision (multivitamin with minerals). 1  8 major drug interactions (17 brand and generic names) 2  103 moderate drug interactions (365 brand and generic names) 3  5 minor drug interactions (10 brand and generic names)
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CANVAS A History of Canvas. Canvas is a heavy, closely woven fabric used for making sails, tents, covers, awnings and other functions where sturdiness is required. Typical weights range from 10 to 50 ounces per square yard. The word 'canvas' is derived from the Arabic word for cannabis, a Latin word meaning 'hemp'. In earlier times, hemp was popularly used to make canvas. Modern canvas is usually made of cotton, linen or synthetic materials. Canvas has a very simple weave - the weft thread just goes over one warp thread and under the next. Canvas is very hard-wearing, generally water-resistant.
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- Aircraft can be constructed from wood, fabric, many types of metal, or even composite materials (e.g. carbon-fiber, fiberglass). Early aircraft such as the Wright Flyer were built with wood and fabric.
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Solar sails set course for a new journey into renewable energy Solar sails set course for a new journey into renewable energy. Perry Carroll of The Solar Cloth Company explains why his flexible solar sail panels can generate energy not only at on sea but on millions of spaces on land. Perry Carroll, founder of The Solar Cloth Company, sits on a car park roof covered with his solar panels.
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-  Sail  is a song by American electronic rock band Awolnation.n 2013, the song was used by TV channel History in a trailer for the show Vikings and in the trailer for The Counselor (2013). It was also featured in an episode of The Vampire Diaries. Sail was played during the final scene of Dog Soldier, the fifth episode (season 1) of A&E's crime drama Longmire.
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- Medieval ships were designed mostly for moving goods, troops, or warfare. Medieval ships used the less efficient triangular sail. Medieval ships had to be built out of soft woods like pine. Medieval ships used a longer keel, a taller mast, and a heavier wood.
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Mycenaeans Evidence suggests that Mycenaean trading ships looked something like this. They would have been about fifty feet long and powered by sail. They would have been rounded rather than sleek in shape. Ships were built rounded and sitting deep in the water because they needed to carry a great deal of cargo.
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- 1 Centerboard: This is a (usually fibreglass) plate that pivots from the bottom of the keel in some boats and is used to balance the boat when under sail. 2  Cleat: Cleats are what lines (or ropes) get fastened to when they need to be kept tight.  Halyard: Lines that raise or lower the sails.
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Fabric Guide In this construction, all of the crimp is in the warp and stretch in the fill direction is minimized. Polyester (Dacron®) Even though it was almost 40 years ago that Dacron replaced cotton as the primary sail material for fore and aft sails, it is a bit difficult to explain all the subtleties of this fabric. Dacron sail fabric has continued to develop since it was introduced in the mid-fifties.
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- Seeing in this manner the five junks and the paraos, it seemed to them that there might be treachery, and they set sail for the junks, and as soon as the crews of the junks saw them under sail, they also set sail and made off where the wind best served them; and they overhauled one of the junks with the boats, and took it with twenty-seven men; and the ships went and anchored abreast of the island of the Myrolobans, with the junk made fast to the poop of the flagship, and the paraos returned ...
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- Byblos is the main port for the export of the valuable cedar wood of Lebanon, essential for Egypt's architecture and for boat-building. One of the earliest known boats, buried beside a pyramid at Giza and dating from around 2500 BC, is made from planks of cedar; it is 143 feet (44m) long and 20 feet (6m) wide.
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Theory and intuition of trimming sails with cunningham First, the sail cut and the resulting curvature to the cloth. On the first diagram on left we have the sail before inserting the mast. Think of the dashed line as a painted line on the sail. It is a straight line before inserting the mast but it gets curved by the wind when on mast and the cunningham is loose. Then, the impact of pulling cunningham, diagram 2.
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Glossary of nautical terms A type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts, first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century.
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Solar Sails Solar Sails. Some future spacecraft may not be propelled by rockets. If NASA engineer Dean Alhorn has his way, they'll be powered by solar sails—big silver kites in space that are pushed along by the sun's rays. NASA engineer Dean Alhorn says that some future spacecraft may be propelled by the sun's rays. Editor's Note: Hours after NOVA recorded this interview on January 20, 2011, NASA succeeded in deploying its first solar sail in low-Earth orbit.
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- Wow!”. Mike Albert, Annapolis, MD. Clarke Bassett established Kappa Sails in Westbrook, CT in 1996 and has been making premium sails for cruising and racing sailors ever since. Clarke has over 30 years experience designing and building quality sails for customers across the country and beyond. In 1987 Clarke sailed with and designed sails for Dennis Conner and the America’s Cup .... Kappa Sails relies on three things for success:
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Lateen sail The sail, its free corner secured near the stern, was capable of taking the wind on either side, and, by enabling the vessel to tack into the wind, the lateen immensely increased the potential of the sailing ship. zoom_in.