Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In naval architecture, a plan showing the masts, spars, sails, and rigging of a vessel in longitudinal elevation. The cut under
ship is a sail-plan except that the running rigging is not usually shown on such a plan.
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- noun nautical A diagram showing the
number , possiblearrangements , andsizes of the sails for a sailing vessel
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Examples
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But the stormy inconstancy of Mac's behaviour had no connection with a gill or two of wine; his passions, angry and otherwise, were on a different sail-plan from his neighbours '; and there were possibilities of good and evil in that hybrid Celt beyond their prophecy.
The Wrecker 1898
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Officers of men-of-war used to come on board to take the exact dimensions of her sail-plan.
The Mirror of the Sea Joseph Conrad 1890
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In South American waters the bowsprit and boom were shortened and the jigger-sail added to form the yawl-rig with which the rest of the trip was made, the sail-plan of which is indicated by the dotted lines The extreme sail forward is a flying jib occasionally used, set to a bamboo stick fastened to the bowsprit.
Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877
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[Illustration: Sail-Plan of the _Spray_ The solid lines represent the sail-plan of the _Spray_ on starting for the long voyage.
Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877
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