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| | | (...) All true... but I still believe that the concept behind the lateen sail (triangle + rotation around mast) allowed travelling against the wind, unlike square sails - better for back-winds (no pun intended). And I'm not sure if ALL the sails in (...) (24 years ago, 27-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: What we can do... (my 2 cents) —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) I believe the mizzen mast was lateen rigged on the Nina, as on many ships until the gaff-rigged sail comes along (ahhh, the Armada Flagship, now available from Lego S@H). I love putting lateen sails on my Lego ships - I keep meaning to cut my (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | Re: What we can do... (my 2 cents) —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | (...) Yeah, but it was an *English* storm... Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.pirates)
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| | | | | | | Re: What we can do... (my 2 cents) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) How so? are you saying god was on the side of the english??? GRIN (24 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: What we can do... (my 2 cents) —Pedro Silva
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| | | | | | (...) That's what you say. Can you present evidence that the storm originated over England and not elsewhere? ;-) Pedro (24 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: What we can do... (my 2 cents) —Pedro Silva
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| | | | (...) There it is: influence, not copy. I'd say inspiration... :-) (...) Yes, the storm *was* the main gun... but the fire-ships were also very effective, at least in the morale issue. The only real bugger in this whole story is that portuguese (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.pirates)
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