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2. Mast (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   This contrasts with a ketch or a yawl, where the after mast, and its principal sail, is clearly the smaller of the two, so the terminology is (from forward) mainmast and mizzen. (In a yawl, the term "jigger" is occasionally used for the aftermast.) [7] Some two-masted luggers have a fore-mast and a mizzen-mast – there is no main-mast. This is ...

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. Sail plan - Wikipedia

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   Sail plan of a brig. A sail plan is a drawing of a sailing craft, viewed from the side, ... The mizzen sail (or "spanker") is a gaff-rigged, fore-and-aft sail ...

5. Rig (sailing) - Wikipedia

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   A lug sail is an asymmetric quadrilateral sail suspended on a spar and hoisted up the mast as a fore-and-aft sail. A mizzen sail is a small triangular or quadrilateral sail at the stern of a boat. A steadying sail is a mizzen sail on motor vessels such as old-fashioned drifters and navy ships (such as HMS Prince Albert). The sail's prime ...

6. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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   mizzen 1. A mizzen sail is a small sail (triangular or gaff) on a ketch or yawl set abaft the mizzenmast. [2] 2. A mizzen staysail is an occasional lightweight staysail on a ketch or yawl, set forward of the mizzenmast while reaching in light to moderate airs. [2] 3. A mizzenmast is a mast on a ketch or yawl, or spritsail barge.

7. Yawl - Wikipedia

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   The sail area of the mizzen on a yawl is consequentially proportionately smaller than the same sail on a ketch. [ 1 ] As a hull type, yawl may refer to many types of open, clinker-built , double-ended, traditional working craft that operated from the beaches of Great Britain and Ireland.

8. 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.

9. Sailboat - Wikipedia

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   Ketches are similar to a sloop, but there is a second shorter mast astern of the mainmast, but forward of the rudder post. The second mast is called the mizzen mast and the sail is called the mizzen sail. A ketch can also be Cutter-rigged with two head sails.