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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Jun 2007
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Tall Ships Youth Trust is to sell one of its brigs
"Ronald Raygun" wrote in message
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Dave wrote:
On 2007-08-23 09:33:08 -0700, Ronald Raygun
said:
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
A 'brig' is the term used for a prison. You know like, "Throw the
******* into the brig!" Buck up there, man! Call a spade a spade.
It's
a 'brigantine.'
Not so. They are brigs (square rigged on both masts). Brigantines
are square rigged only on the fore mast.
Yep, a brig is a two-master with the forward mast shorter than the
after. If the forward mast is taller it's a ketch. (Unless the mizzen
is behind the rudder post, then it's a yawl.)
If the fore mast is shorter than the main it could also be a schooner.
I gather the distinction between that and a brigantine is that the
schooner has no square sails at all.
Would you have a ketch/yawl with square sails?
http://www.sailbaltimore.org/shiptypes.htm
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