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2. Mast (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   Sections: mizzen-mast lower, mizzen topmast, mizzen topgallant mast [4] Some names given to masts in ships carrying other types of rig (where the naming is less standardised) are: Bonaventure mizzen: the fourth mast on larger 16th-century galleons, typically lateen-rigged and shorter than the main mizzen. Jigger-mast: typically, where it is the ...

3. Full-rigged ship - Wikipedia

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   The lowest and normally largest sail on a mast is the course sail of that mast, and is referred to simply by the mast name: Foresail, mainsail, mizzen sail, jigger sail or more commonly forecourse etc. Even a full-rigged ship did not usually have a lateral (square) course on the mizzen mast below the mizzen topmast.

4. Sailing ship - Wikipedia

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   Mixture of masts with square sails and masts with fore-and-aft sails. Barque, or "bark": at least three masts, fore-and-aft rigged mizzen mast; Barquentine: at least three masts with all but the foremost fore-and-aft rigged; Bilander: a ship or brig with a lug-rigged mizzen sail; Brigantine: two masts, with the foremast square-rigged

5. Topmast - Wikipedia

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   A traditional ship's mast, consisting of "lower" (i.e. Main-, Fore- or Mizzen-) mast, topmast and topgallant/royal mast. The topmast is highlighted in red. The masts of traditional sailing ships were not single spars, but were constructed of separate sections or masts, each with its own rigging. The topmast is one of these.

6. Rig (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   Thus, the mizzen topgallant staysail can be found dangling from the stay leading from above the mizzen (third) mast's topgallant sail (i.e., from the mizzen topgallant yard) to at least one and usually two sails down from that on the main mast (the slope of the top edge of all staysail lines runs from a higher point nearer the stern to a lower ...

7. Stays (nautical) - Wikipedia

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   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 is a kind of substitute nearly parallel to the principal stay, and intended to help the principal stay to support its mast triatic stay is a stay that runs between masts.

8. Sail plan - Wikipedia

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   For staysails between the foremast and the mainmast (from bottom to top): main, main-topmast, main-topgallant, and main-royal (...staysail). Staysails between other masts are similarly named. The mizzen sail (or "spanker") is a gaff-rigged, fore-and-aft sail, mounted on the after side of the mizzenmast. It was used to help tack the vessel. [8] [9]

9. NRP Sagres (1937) - Wikipedia

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   The ship is a steel-built three masted barque, with square sails on the fore and main masts and gaff rigging on the mizzen mast. Her main mast rises 42 m (138 ft) above the deck. She carries 22 sails totaling about 2,000 m 2 (22,000 sq ft) and can reach a top speed of 17 kn (31 km/h; 20 mph) under sail. She has a sparred length of 89 m (292 ft ...