Sailing rig consisting mainly of sails
Micronesian wa with crab claw sail
The gaff-rigged schooner Effie M. Morrissey
The earliest European fore-and-aft rigs appeared in the form of spritsails in Greco-Roman navigation,[ 1] as this carving of a 3rd century AD Roman merchant ship
A fore-and-aft rig is a sailing vessel rig with sails set mainly along the line of the keel , rather than perpendicular to it as on a square rigged vessel.[ 2]
^ Casson, Lionel (1995): "Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World", Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 978-0-8018-5130-8 , pp. 243–245
^ Knight, Austin Melvin (1910). Modern seamanship . New York: D. Van Nostrand. pp. 507–532.