Rig (sailing)
Arrangement of a ship's masts, sails, and ropes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A sailing vessel's rig is its arrangement of masts, sails and rigging.[1] Examples include a schooner rig, cutter rig, junk rig, etc.[2] A rig may be broadly categorized as "fore-and-aft", "square", or a combination of both. Within the fore-and-aft category there is a variety of triangular and quadrilateral sail shapes. Spars or battens may be used to help shape a given kind of sail. Each rig may be described with a sail plan—formally, a drawing of a vessel, viewed from the side.
Modern examples of single-person sailing craft, such as windsurfers, iceboats, and land-sailing craft, typically have uncomplicated rigs with a single sail on a mast with a boom.