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The "Skytta" and the principle of boat design

(Picture 1) Above this text is the picture of one small boat, what has attractive color. The type of this boat is "Skytta". This boat is very capable of open sea sailing, but there is one problem with them. The problem is that "Skytta" would "swim" quite deep, and this is the thing, what makes it so nice thing for open sea sailing and yachting. The roots of this kind of structure are from similar galeases, what Kristoffer Columbus used in his first trip to America. Or one thing has been forgetting, only the flagship "Santa Maria" and the "Pinta" were galeases. The third one "Nina" was faster than other ships of the Columbus fleet. "Nina" used the Arabian rig, where the yard was put below the sail. Galeases are very deep sailing ships, that are also very short. In the time of Columbus, the half of those ships might be under the sea, and that was made those ships very stable. That's why they were very ...