DSK wrote:

Nav wrote:

OED:

The rig characteristic of a schooner has been defined as consisting
essentially of two gaff sails, the after sail not being smaller than
the fore, and a head sail set on a bowsprit.

Webster:

Fore and aft rigged vessel with a smaller sail on the foremast and the
main mast stepped _nearly_ amidships.


Ah, yes, well... going to the definitive maritime reference, eh? How
come neither mentions such a possibility as a 3 masted schooner? ANd
yet, in the annals of sea lore there very definitely are such things...
and more!


Doug, you really start to look incredibly foolish when you don't even
bother to look at what reference books say and then criticise them as
knowing less than you.


The size of the mast doesn't really matter, it's the sail
distribution.. That also dictates mast placement -hence the Webster
observation on this point. Do you think the masts were gaff rigged as
well?


Does a schooner have to be gaf rigged? Do you think you could be
bothered to look for yourself? I'm not here to do your homework for you.
Is this how you got through school?



OK, so, you don't know. Since you have shown no ability at maths
(especially calculus) I don't think you could have done any of my
homework. But that's OK because the world need wipers and I'm sure you
were (are still) a very good wiper.

Cheers