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Unlike the cutter staysail, none of these sails have their luff affixed to a stay. On large rigs, staysails other than headsails are named according to the mast and mast section on which they are hoisted. Thus, the staysail hoisted on a stay that runs forward and downwards from the top of the mizzen topgallant mast is the mizzen topgallant ...
2 masted schooner, staysail Belle Poule: 1932 Brest: Naval training vessel 2 masted gaff, square topsail [19] Bill of Rights: 1971 Chula Vista, California: Modeled after schooner Wanderer (1858); privately owned; commercial charters; sail training vessel; 100 ton captain training. 2 masted gaff; topsail schooner [20] Black Douglas: 1930 Morocco
In some rigs, it overlaps other sails and spars such as the gaff of the foresail and therefore must be fully lowered and re-raised at every tack and jibe. [2] Because of this, a fisherman staysail is unusual on a gaff schooner , but on a staysail schooner , the fisherman staysail is a useful way to fill the upper gap between the masts.
Lewis R. French, a gaff-rigged schooner Oosterschelde, a topsail schooner Orianda, a staysail schooner, with Bermuda mainsail. A schooner (/ ˈ s k uː n ər / SKOO-nər) [1] is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.
3-mast staysail aluminium schooner Vagrant II: 39.00 m (128 ft) Herreshoff Manufacturing Company: Nathanael Greene Herreshoff: 1913: Steel gaff schooner, restored with a staysail rig at Royal Huisman in 2019 Doriana: 39.00 m (128 ft) Frederikssund Skibsværft: Ado Von Lindholm, Ernst Wedell-Wedellsborg: 1930: Gaff wooden schooner Tenaz: 39.00 m ...
Argo is a two-masted staysail schooner that measures 112 feet (34 m) overall and accommodates twenty six students and seven professional crew on ocean voyages. [4] Sailing under the Seamester flag, Argo circumnavigates on 90-day college semester-based programs and shorter 21-day and 60-day programs during the northern hemisphere summer.
Victory Chimes was built at Bethel, Delaware in 1900 by George K. Phillips Co. She was named Edwin and Maud after the children of her first Captain, Robert E. Riggen.. The traditional "ram" rig was a standing jib, flying jib, staysail (also called a forestaysail), foresail, mainsail and spanker (or mizzen), which Victory Chimes carries today.
On a boat with two staysails the inner sail is called the staysail, and the outer (foremost) is called the jib. This combination of two staysails is called a cutter rig (or in North America a yankee pair) and a boat with one mast rigged with two staysails and a mainsail is called a cutter.