Sail Before Trivia Quiz

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A traditional boat of the Mediterranean area, the felucca is more often associated with Egypt and trips on the River Nile. It is made from wood with one or two sails, and is often used for tourist trips along the Nile. A yawl is a double masted sail boat, often used for fishing. A traditional Chinese sailboat, junks are still widely used in modern times. They originally had square sails, but these have evolved. They have battens of bamboo on the sails, allowing them to be adjusted easily.

The ketch is similar to the yawl. As with most of these sailed vessels, the different names primarily relate to the configuration of the sails. The caravel is particularly associated with Portugal and Spain, and was the vessel of choice during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries when these two powers were exploring and colonising what they called the 'New World'. A dhow is a sailing ship used in the area of the Red Sea and coastal areas of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. They are mostly used for transporting heavy cargoes.

Xebecs were used in the Mediterranean Sea between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. They were often the choice of pirates, who tweaked the design to increase the attainable speed. Luggers derive their name from the lug sail, which is suspended from a spar called the yard. They were used around the coasts of the UK, in Scotland, England and Ireland, and also around France. The wherry is a type of riverboat, used in the Norfolk Broads area (in Norfolk and Suffolk) and on the Thames and Cam rivers in England. They carried cargo and/or passengers.

The schooner is believed to have originated in Massachusetts in the early eighteenth century, although it was probably developed from a European design. The sails are rigged in a way that makes the ship manoeuvrable in coastal waters, and it became the vessel of choice for fishing in the waters around the eastern coasts of Canada and the USA. A scow is a type of barge, popular in the Great Lakes of the USA, but also used in England and New Zealand. Their main use was in the movement of cargo.

The final three sailing ships are the barque, sloop and galleon. Barques normally have three or more masts, with the name being applied to ships as old as those used in Ancient Egypt. It is the way in which the sails are rigged which makes a ship a barque. By contrast, a sloop has only one mast, with sails fitted in various ways. Galleons are large ships, originally from Spain and Portugal, with several decks. Galleons were often used as warships in battles such as the fight against the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Those listed which don't have sails include the coracle, a round boat particularly associated with Wales and used for fishing. Punts are flat bottomed boats propelled by a pole. They are used in shallow water, primarily for pleasure and are mostly associated with the university towns of Oxford and Cambridge in the twenty-first century.

The rodney boat is used for fishing, or sometimes as transport from the shore to a bigger ship, and is from Newfoundland in Canada. The waka is a type of canoe used by the Maoris in New Zealand and the zille is a flat-bottomed boat used on the River Danube. The shikara is used in the Indian city of Srinigar,, mainly on Dal Lake. It is sometimes still used for commercial purposes but more often to transport tourists who visit Jammu and Kashmir.