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Default Lateen rig

"Thom Stewart" wrote ...
'Upper & Lower" Work for me.
Scott, I think the Upper was called a Spar and the Lower
the Boom (Guess)



Anything that hits you in the head is called a "boom."

OzOne wrote:
The two poles that hold the sail...


Good answer.


Scotty wrote:
Well, I've still got the mast and rigging from my 1979 ,
Sunfish style dinghy and I used the 'poles' for something
the other day and it got me wondering what they were called.


Well, now they're called "poles." If you ever put them back
on a boat you can call them by their right name(s)!


Still have the old sail too, but I cut patch pieces out of
it.


After all this time, the sail probably wasn't good for much
anyway.

I have seen this done both ways: Sunfish spars used for
plumbing and plumbing used for Sunfish spars.

DSK