A lovely Sail boat Length: 15FtWeight: About 200KGHull: Flat bottom with removable Fin Ideal for transport on various means.Rig: Marine Cotton Sails: Marine CottonA perfect over night sleeper, for two idividual.Motor: Compatable for various Clamp on outboard Engines.Buy as is. ready for shipping.External info on General Sloops:
After the cat rig which has only a mainsail, the sloop rig is one of the simpler sailing rig configurations. A sloop typically has two sails, a mainsail and a headsail (known as either a jib or a genoa, depending on size), while the has a mainsail and two or more headsails. Next in complexity are the , the and the , each of which has two masts and a minimum of three sails. A sloop has a simple system of mast rigging — a forestay (connecting the mast to bow), a backstay (mast to stern) and shrouds (mast to sides). By having only two sails, the individual sails of a sloop are larger than those of an equivalent cutter, yawl or ketch. Until the advent of lightweight sailcloth and modern sail-handling systems, the larger sails of a sloop could be a handful. So, until the 1950s, sailboats over 9 metres would typically use a cutter rig or a two-mast rig. After the advent of modern and light , the sloop became the dominant sailing rig type for all but the largest sailboats. No rig type is perfect for all conditions. Sloops, with their paucity of spars and control lines, tend to impart less aerodynamic drag. Compared to other rigs, sloops tend to perform very well when sailing to windward and generally offer a sound overall compromise of abilities on all points of sail. Cutters, ketches and yawls are often preferred to sloops when venturing far offshore, because it is easier to reef small sails as the wind increases, while still keeping the boat balanced.