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The polacca occurs as nature and severity of seventeenth-century sailing ship, similar to the xebec. A polacca was oft seen in the Mediterranean. It sports iii individual-pole masts, often using the lateen hoisted on the foremast (which is slanted forward to accommodate a big lateen-rigged yard) and the gaff or lateen on the mizzen mast. A mainmast is square rigged, after a European style.
Occasionally polaccthe motion-picture show what appears to become a ship-rigged vessel (sometimes by having the lateen sail on the mizzen) using the galley-like hull and single-pole masts. So, a term "polacca" seems to refer primarily to a masting & even the hull nature and severity when opposed to the nature and severity of rig utilized for the sails.
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