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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.
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 ...
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.
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
Capitán Miranda (ROU 20) is a three-masted staysail schooner of the Uruguayan Navy. Originally acquired by the Uruguayan Navy as a survey ship in 1930, the ship remained in service until 1976 in this role. Destined for the shipbreakers, the vessel was repurposed as a training ship in 1978.
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.