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Aktungbby · 11-26-15, 03:56 AM

BAY area Schooners: ALMA-built 1891 gaff'd with top sails;

MARTHA-built 1907 lower foremast & two ungaff'd boom'd aft-sails=schooner no top'sails on Martha . A schooner w/o topsails is 'bald headed schooner'. Gaff'd schooners, while very esthetic, require dual halyards and much adjusting while underway; modern versions are simpler with single halyards; a serious consideration for old sailors taken to falling through hatchways...

The sail gloves (my previous post) are completely shot after two months on just a single-mast sloop rig Catalina.

THIS ONE has it all: SV SEASHELL Holland-1920

Gaff rigged, square rigged, and top sails!(5,500 square feet of sail)

11-26-15, 03:56 AM	#15
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,846 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Not 'square rigged' schooners BAY area Schooners: ALMA-built 1891 gaff'd with top sails;MARTHA-built 1907 lower foremast & two ungaff'd boom'd aft-sails=schooner no top'sails on Martha . A schooner w/o topsails is 'bald headed schooner'. Gaff'd schooners, while very esthetic, require dual halyards and much adjusting while underway; modern versions are simpler with single halyards; a serious consideration for old sailors taken to falling through hatchways... The sail gloves (my previous post) are completely shot after two months on just a single-mast sloop rig Catalina.THIS ONE has it all: SV SEASHELL Holland-1920 Gaff rigged, square rigged, and top sails!(5,500 square feet of sail) __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 11-26-15 at 04:20 AM.