Such a sail sets better than a common boom foresail, particularly on a wind, when the boom foresail sheet must be trimmed so flat to fill the foresail and fore gaff topsail, that much of the propelling power is lost. The foresail may be a combination of “boom and lug,” in which case the forward part of the foot has the usualīoom and traveller, and the clew of the sail extends much further aft than in the ordinary type. Stout tail ropes or clew-ropes for the staysail and foresail enable those sails to be held to windward, if necessary, in tacking. This traveller for the main sheet is a short bar of iron, and for the other sheets extends across the deck, and for the staysail sheet may be a wooden spar. The staysail sheet and fore and main sheets have their lower blocks strapped to a thwartship traveller. In our description of manoeuvres, &c., we assume the inner head sail to be a fore staysail. It will be seen from the above that the jib of a schooner is that sail whose tack is nearest to the bowsprit cap. Its tack lashing may have a long drift to enable the sail to hoist above the other jibs. When the forestay goes to the bowsprit cap, or nearly to it, the first head sail from inboard is the jib, beyond which are the flying jib and outer jib.īut if the forestay sets up at or near the knightheads, the sail set upon it is called the fore staysail, and the others are the jib, flying jib, and outer jib.Īn additional jib, on the fore topmast stay, is called a jib topsail. The head sails of coasting schooners are variously named according to the position of the stays. It has also a fore and main gaff topsail, triangular in shape, the luff attached to the topmast by hoops the sails furling aloft at the lower masthead. The Schooner has a fore and aft foresail and mainsail, both usually laced to booms and gaffs and attached to hoops on their respective masts. We shall confine our attention chiefly to the two principal types of fore-and-afters peculiar to the waters of the United States, viz.: the two masted schooner, Fig. The student is referred for more detailed information on this subject to Qualtrough’s “Sailor’s Handy Book,” where it is treated with special reference to yachts and yacht sailing.
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