Wikipedia:WikiProject Sailing vessels and rigging

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to sailing vessels and rigging. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to encourage accuracy and consistency in articles describing sailing vessels and their rigging.

A secondary goal is to fill gaps in the current coverage of this subject area.

[edit] GA Noms

Catalina Yachts

[edit] GAs

None at time (know of)

[edit] Participants

(edits)

[edit] Related projects

[edit] Structure

No structures have yet been defined. Possible structures could be defined for articles on

  • particular rigs.
  • sails.

[edit] Goals

  1. To produce a consistent and complete set of articles describing types of sailing vessels, their sails and rigging.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

  • Edit all such articles to be consistent in their terminology, wikilinked as appropriate, and without excessive redundancy. And of course of high quality in all respects.

[edit] Some resources (external links)

  • Ships List index of rig type description pages.
  • Schoonerman index of all sorts of nautical terms, rigging especially.
  • Days of Sail, containing brief rig type descriptions.

[edit] Infoboxes

None yet defined. Possible uses for rigs and for sails, see Structure above. To be determined.

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