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Staysail schooner "Rich Harvest" becalmed. Its large genoa jib has been roller-furled, and its quadrilateral Fisherman staysail is still in a sailbag. Most staysails are triangular; however, some are four-cornered, notably some fisherman's staysails. Triangular staysails set forward of the foremost mast are called jibs, headsails, or foresails.
She runs a series of daily sails for a period of two to three weeks out of her home port of Galveston each spring. [citation needed] Elissa remains one of the world's oldest sailing hulls still in operation. [9] The oldest is the coasting schooner Lewis R. French, launched in 1871 in Christmas Cove, Maine.
A fisherman staysail is a sail placed between the fore and main masts of a sailing ship, usually a schooner but also including brigantines. [1] All four of its sides are typically set flying, although the luff may be attached to the mast (possibly with in-mast furling) on a staysail schooner. The purpose of a fisherman staysail is to catch ...
USS Sam Houston was a small (66-ton) schooner captured by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War.. She served the Union Navy during the blockade of ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America as a ship's tender, pilot boat, and dispatch boat, but also as a gunboat when the occasion presented itself.
The Texan schooner San Bernard was a two-masted schooner of the Second Texas Navy from 1839-1840. She was the sister ship of the San Jacinto and the San Antonio . In 1840, San Antonio was part of the Texas Navy flotilla led by Commodore Edwin Ward Moore which was dispatched to assist Yucatecan rebels that had taken up arms against Mexico .
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 ...
goes to the end of the bowsprit, a little beyond the forestay, on which the fore-topmast staysail runs on hanks. main-topmast stay attaches to the hounds of the foremast, or comes on deck. mizzen-topmast stay goes to the hounds of the main-mast. top-gallant, royal, or any other masts have each a stay, named after their respective masts springstay
Samuel May Williams moved to Mexican Texas in 1822 and soon began working as the secretary to Stephen F. Austin, the first empresario in Texas. [5] During the Texas Revolution (1835–1836), Williams and his business partner Thomas F. McKinney used $99,000 of their own funds to purchase supplies for the Texian Army; Williams also purchased the first ship in the Texas Navy, the schooner Invincible.