On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:29:21 -0700 (PDT), Dean H
wrote:

I'm starting my research to restore the rigging on a model of a tern
schooner which was built many moons ago by a Gloucester fisherman.
Sources I see today, fumbling through my searches, may be
overgeneralizing when they say a tern is any three masted schooner.
Other sources have led me to believe that many or most schooners have
the main mast in the middle, and only schooners with an aft main mast
are terns. My model schooner has the main mast in the rear, er aft,
and I believe it is that aft main mast that makes it a tern. The
middle mast is of medium height.

But that's only incidental to my question. The fact remains that the
tallest mast is the main mast. What is the proper name for the middle
mast?

1. Fore-mast
2. ??? - mast
3.Main-mast

Thanks in advance for any help. Have fun with any controversy.
Sorry if a model is OT.
Maybe I should build a real boat.
I don't have a boat. But I have rights for a mooring here at my humble
beach shack.
I should build a bigger house with a workshop.
Then I can build the boat. Just something to explore the shoreline of
Long Island Sound and catch a few stripers.
Then I can fix the model.
But I'll be fishing.

mid-mizzen?

-dean
motogroove hat yaaaaahoo spot calm

According to "Chapman great sailing ships of the world" By Otmar
Schäuffelen, see:
http://books.google.com/books?id=QgM...esult&resnum=1

the sails and by extension the masts on a three masted schooner are
Fore Sail, Main Sail and Mizzen Sail.


Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)