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Juan Sebastián de Elcano
The Juan Sebastián de Elcano is the Spanish Navy's four-masted training ship, in service since 1928 and named for the navigator who first circumnavigated the globe.
Junk (ship)
A junk is a Chinese sailing ship distinguished by watertight bulkheads, a sternpost rudder, and battened sails; it served for centuries as a trading vessel across East Asia.
Ketch
A ketch is a two-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel with the mizzenmast forward of the rudderpost; it served for centuries as cargo craft and cruising yacht.
Kieler Woche
Kieler Woche (Kiel Week) is an annual sailing regatta and summer festival in Kiel, Germany, first raced in 1882 and called the largest sailing event in the world.
Kruzenshtern (ship)
Kruzenshtern (Крузенштерн) is a Russian four-masted barque and sail training ship, built in Germany in 1926 as Padua and transferred to the Soviet Union in 1946.
Laser (dinghy)
The Laser, since 2019 formally the ILCA, is a single-handed one-design sailing dinghy designed in 1969 and 1970 by the Canadians Bruce Kirby and Ian Bruce.
Laser Radial
The Laser Radial, designated ILCA 6 since the class was renamed ILCA in 2019, is a smaller-sailed rig for the Laser dinghy, the Olympic women's single-handed dinghy since 2008.
Lateen
The lateen, or Latin sail, is a triangular fore-and-aft sail set on a long angled yard, the principal Mediterranean rig from the early Middle Ages.
Leviathan (yacht)
Leviathan is a 111-meter (364 ft) diesel-electric superyacht built by the Dutch shipyard Oceanco, delivered in November 2025 to Valve co-founder Gabe Newell, reportedly costing around $500 million.
Luminance (yacht)
Luminance is a 138.8-meter (455 ft) motor superyacht built by German shipyard Lürssen and delivered in January 2024, widely reported to be owned by Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov.
Maltese Falcon (yacht)
Maltese Falcon is an 88-meter, three-masted sailing yacht built by Perini Navi in 2006 for Tom Perkins, known for its automated DynaRig with 15 sails.
Multihull
A multihull is a boat with more than one hull, most commonly a catamaran with two hulls or a trimaran with three, gaining stability from beam rather than ballast.
Nautor's Swan
Nautor's Swan is a Finnish sailing yacht builder founded in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkylä in Pietarsaari, Finland, producing Swan yachts from one-design racers to maxis over 30 meters.
Octopus (yacht)
Octopus is a 126-meter explorer motor yacht built by Lürssen in 2003 for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, later used in the discovery of the battleship Musashi.
Pamir (ship)
Pamir was a German four-masted steel barque built in 1905 for the Laeisz line's Flying P-Liners, and sank in 1957 in Hurricane Carrie, killing 80 of the 86 aboard.
Sail
A sail is a fabric or rigid surface arranged to catch wind and propel a vessel, the dominant means of marine propulsion until steam and diesel engines displaced it.
Sailboat
A sailboat, or sailing boat, is a watercraft propelled by sails, ranging from small dinghies to ocean-going tall ships, used for commerce, cruising, and racing.
Sanlorenzo
Sanlorenzo is an Italian luxury yacht shipyard founded in 1958 near Florence and headquartered in Ameglia, building made-to-measure motor yachts from 24 to 74 meters.
Schooner
The Schooner is a North American sailing vessel that emerged in the early 1700s. It was dominant on the Atlantic coast for its fishing and trading.
Sea Witch (clipper)
The Sea Witch was an American extreme clipper launched in New York in 1846, designed by John W. Griffiths and built for the fast China tea trade.
Sloop
A sloop is a sailing vessel with one mast, a fore-and-aft rig, and two sails: a headsail ahead of the mast and a mainsail behind it.
Spinnaker
A spinnaker is a large, light, three-cornered downwind sail set flying from the masthead on a sailing yacht, in symmetric and asymmetric types, first recorded in 1866.
Stad Amsterdam
Stad Amsterdam is a three-masted steel-hulled clipper built in Amsterdam between 1997 and 2000, serving as the official flagship of the city and the SAIL Amsterdam festival.
Statsraad Lehmkuhl
Statsraad Lehmkuhl is a Norwegian three-masted steel barque launched in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1914 as a German training ship, now based in Bergen as Norway's largest sailing ship in service.
Superyacht
A superyacht, also known as a megayacht, is a large, professionally crewed private pleasure yacht, typically 24 meters or longer; the longest, Azzam, exceeds 180 meters.
Trimaran
A trimaran, or double-outrigger, is a multihull boat with a central main hull and two outrigger hulls, ranging from small daysailers to ocean racers exceeding 30 knots.
USCGC Eagle (WIX-327)
USCGC Eagle is a 295-foot barque, built in Germany in 1936 as Horst Wessel, serving since 1946 as the Coast Guard Academy's sail-training ship in New London, Connecticut.
Yacht
A yacht is a sail- or power-driven vessel used for pleasure, cruising, or racing, with no fixed size definition, though superyachts measure 24 meters or more.
Yngling (keelboat)
The Yngling is a three-person racing keelboat designed in Norway in 1967 by Jan Hermann Linge and used as the Olympic women's keelboat in 2004 and 2008.