"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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Scot,

It seem to me that when you connect a sheet to it for sail
control, it
becomes a "Boom"

I've always said that the Boom got it's name by the sound
you hear when
it hits your head.

So Scot, we has the bottom pole named. Now the upper pole.
Connected to
that pole is a halyard. Now if both ends rose when you
hoisted it with
the halyard it could be called a "Gaff" as in a "Lug" rig
but since
it's attached to the "Boom" at the Tack I'd call it a
Spar.

That my reasoning. Often proven wrong but it's worked for
me.

If your using it to hold up a Rose bush it should now be
called a "
Stake", if used to hold up a fence it is "Post", If used
to knock down a
Apple from the tree it should probably be called a "Stick"
If used to
jack up a cloth line; called a "Cloth Pole Jack" If we
can't name it;
who Gives a ****. Not me


I used it to roll up a sail.

Scotty