INTRODUCTION OF SAILBOAT

A sailboat or sailing boat is a boat propelled partly or entirely by sails and is smaller than a sailing ship.
Distinctions in what constitutes a sailing boat and ship vary by region and maritime culture. Sailing
employs the wind acting on sails, wingsails or kites to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing
ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course,
which is often part of a larger plan of navigation. Apart of that, a course defined with respect to the true
wind direction is called a point of sail. Conventional sailing craft cannot derive power from sails on a
point of sail that is too close into the wind. Sailing uses of combination of technique, strategy,
technology, strength and skill, making it one of the most challenging Olympic disciplines to master.
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

The history of the sailboat is the best choice for every passengers for research. While it would seem
at first glance that the sailboat hasn’t changed much in the last few centuries, there have actually
been many advances in sailboat and sail technology. With every advance in knowledge advance in
technological knowledge or physics, the sailboat has changed, even if it was only a slight change.
Throughout history sailing has been instrumental in the development of civilization, affording
humanity greater mobility than travel over land, whether for trade, transport or warfare, and the
capacity for fishing. The earliest representation of a ship under sail appears on a painted found in
Kuwait dating between 5500 and 5000 BCE. A part of that, advances in sailing technology from the
Middle Ages onward enabled Arab, Chinese, Indian and European explorers to make longer voyages
into regions with extreme weather and climatic conditions. After that, from the 15th century
onwards, European ships went further north, stayed longer on the Grand Banks and in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, and eventually began to explore the Pacific Northwest and the Western Arctic. Sails and
rigging and their effects on the speed of sailboats were essentially ignored until 1920. Since that
time, aerodynamics have been used in their design. Today, modifications to complex craft like the
boats that participate in the America's Cup Race are based on wind-tunnel testing and many other
sophisticated analyses applied to boats, water, wind, and sails. Moreover, in parts of the world
where waters are frozen for most of the year, iceboats were developed to skim the sailboat over the
ice by mounting it on runners or blades. Archaeologists.

FUNCTION OF SAILBOAT

Sailboat are used to navigate the oceans, meaning that sailboat since ancient times have been used by
humans as a means of transportation for humans to move from one place to another by means of
water. Moreover, large boats with large screens capable of carrying hundreds of tons of merchandise
and about two hundred passengers.

KEEL BOAT

 On non-sailing vessels, such as commercial cargo ships, the massive plate that serves as the
vessel’s bottom is usually referred to as the keel.
 It prevents the boat from being blown sideways by the wind.
 Holds the ballast that keeps the boat right-side up.
 Its shape is designed to match the ship’s cargo-carrying needs or special use and provides hull
strength.
 Some cargo and cruise ships are built with a longitudinal keel, commonly called a flat plate,
attached to the hull at an angle and running parallel to the ship’s deck, to provide greater
directional control and stability.
 On smaller vessels, such as trawlers, tugs, or ferries, a bar keel is often attached to the hull and
serves the same purpose.
 Recreational powerboat hulls are generally flat and do not have keels.

HULL SAILBOAT

 Monohull sailing boats are by far the most common, and rely on a combination of hull shape
and the weight (ballast) of the keel for stability. 
 Function of hull is more like a skimming stone by generating hydrodynamic lift, the hull sifts
upon the surface of the water, allowing it to achieve greater speed due to less contact with
the water.
 Catamarans can offer significantly more interior space and deck area for a given length.
 They are therefore becoming increasingly popular among owners of cruising yachts.
 Catamarans and trimaran sailing boats have significantly increased stability because of their
greater overall beam, yet they are lighter as they are not weighed down by a keel and have
minimal wetted surface area.
 This gives the potential for enormously faster speeds under sail. Both types of craft are also
referred to as 'mutihulls'.

RIG CONFIGURATION AND SAILS

 Masthead Sloop: The most common type of sailing boat is a Bermudan sloop, with a
single mast and two sails, a mainsail and a headsail.
 Fractional Sloop: Very similar to the masthead sloop described above, but the forestay
on a fractional rig sloop doesn't reach the top of the mast. One performance advantage
that a fractional rig sloop may enjoy is the greater capability it offers a crew to bend the
top of the mast and flatten its sails when the wind builds and full power is no longer
needed.
 Cutter: Also similar to a sloop, a cutter has a single mast and mainsail, but the mast is
further aft to allow the simultaneous use of two headsails that are set from two
forestays.
TYPES OF SAILBOAT
 KEELBOAT HULLBOAT

MAST CONFIGURATION
BOAT

Sailboat is a type of air vehicle usually smaller than a ship. Some boats can be carried aboard or on land
using trailers - and one of the meanings of a boat is the kind of air that a boat can carry. The boat has a
flotation of structures called hulls and push systems such as fans, paddles, pebbles, screens and water
jets.