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Tanja sail (Malay: layar tanjak) or tanja rig is a type of sail commonly used by the Austronesian people, particularly in Maritime Southeast Asia. It...

the tanja sail (also known variously and misleadingly as the canted square sail, canted rectangular sail, boomed lugsail, or balance lugsail). Tanja sails...

rigged sails, gaff rigged sails, gaff sails, gunter rig, lateen sails, lug sails, tanja sails, the spanker sail on a square rig, and crab claw sails. Fore-and-aft...

Traditional Austronesian generalized sail types. C, D, E, and F are types of crab claw sails. G, H, and I are tanja sails. A Double sprit (Sri Lanka) B Common...

or fixed masts. Tanja sail (also known as canted square/rectangular sail, balance lugsail, or boomed lugsail) features a four-sided sail with spars on both...

lugsail Tanja sail, a type of sail from Nusantara archipelago Block, Leo (2003). To Harness the Wind: A Short History of the Development of Sails. Annapolis:...

fore-and-aft crab claw, tanja and junk rigs. The date of introduction of these later Austronesian sails is disputed. Lateen sails emerged by around the...

performance. Crab claw sail Settee (a triangular sail with the front corner cut off) Tanja sail, a type of sail sometimes mistaken as lateen sail. "the definition...

reliefs of large Javanese outriggers ships with various configurations of tanja sails are also found in the Borobudur temple, dating back to the 8th century...

people invented the balance lugsail (tanja sail), probably developed from the fixed mast version of the crab claw sail.: 98–99 [obsolete source] The junk...

vessels Sail components include the features that define a sail's shape and function, plus its constituent parts from which it is manufactured. A sail may...

the 1960s, Gozo boats had a settee rig. Lateen (a triangular sail) Tanja sail Crab claw sail Whitewright 2009, p. 103 "Picture of mosaic of the Kelenderis...

A staysail ("stays'l") is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from...

a 39-piece German ARD Art Series by Berengar Pfahl Tanja sail, also known as the tilted square sail, used by native Austronesian ships in maritime Southeast...

peoples, using technologies like multihulls, outriggers, crab claw sails, and tanja sails. This enabled the rapid spread of Austronesians into the islands...

Asia. They are traditionally fitted with Austronesian sails, like the crab claw sails and tanja sails, but in modern times are often fitted with petrol engines...

gaff-rigged fore-and-aft sail set from, and aft of, the aftmost mast. Spankers are also called driver, jigger, and pusher sail. On a schooner of four or...

sailing vessel to carry or support its sail. These include yards, booms, and masts, which serve both to deploy sail and resist compressive and bending forces...

transport vessels. Proas are traditionally rigged with the crab claw and tanja sails. The modern proa exists in a wide variety of forms, from the traditional...

vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes include carrying sails, spars, and derricks, giving necessary height to a navigation light, look-out...