Jellore

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A jellore in 1863.
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Jellore with 2 lug sails.

Jellore is a traditional Sumatran sailing craft. These boats are long and narrow, and fitted with double outriggers that stands out considerable distance from the sides. [1] Sometimes they only have one outrigger, which is alternately set in windward and leeward. [2] These boats are rigged with tanja rig. When the sail is partly furled, the ends of the two booms curve downwardly and inserted into the floats of the outrigger. [3]

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  1. Folkard (1901). p. 480.
  2. Folkard (1901). p. 481.
  3. Haddon (1920). p. 83.

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