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Default Another Ketch Sail


DSK wrote:
Edgar wrote:

How are you going to be able to get up to the triatic stay to hank and
unhank a sail?



If you are still talking about the Mule, it not hanked to the triatic
IMO, He just has it sheeted hard in this picture because he's motor
sailing
http://www.theyachtmarket.com/userimages/24272.jpg

Joe


heh
with great difficulty. On a schooner, there are a festooning
plethora of buntlines to gather the fisherman stay sail,
it's enough of a PITA to rig & unrig that they generally
leave it up there most of the season (or leave it off entirely).

Always the eye for the practical side of things, Edgar?

DSK