dipping lug

It was preceded by the "nickie", which had a dipping lug rigging.

Ness is known for its Sgoth, a type of clinker built skiff with a dipping lug sail.

None of the crew had much experience of sailing but after several weeks of hard practice handling the traditional dipping lug they soon became proficient.

There were fourteen oars which were double banked and she was also equipped with a dipping lug sail.

The Scots Zulu, for example, had a dipping lug main with a standing lug mizzen.

She was equipped with a dipping lug mainsail, mizzen sail and had fittings for a rudder at either end to avoid turning her in heavy seas.

She was powered with 16 oars and she was fitted with a large dipping lug mainsail and a mizzen.

The lifeboat had two masts of which the fore-mast carried a dipping lug sail and the mizzen mast a standing lug sail.

Lentement, lentement,"Louis hissed as Gilbert eased away on the halyard and the black-painted dipping lug of the cutter waslowered into the boat, the men stifling the thick canvas."

The dipping lug lacks a boom and has the top yard dipped around the mast while changing course across the wind so that the sail draws away from the mast on each tack.

In Scotland, when constructed with a main dipping lug sail and a mizzen standing lug sail, such vessels were known as fifies, sailing fifies, or herring drifters, and were often used for herring fishing.

Standing lugs have yards that remain on one side of the mast and the tack is set close to the mast, while dipping lugs have yards that dip around the mast when going about so that the sail draws away from the mast on each tack.