Joe wrote:
Between the main and mizzen mast?
http://www.tallshipstacoma.com/images/ships/oriole.jpg



Gary wrote:
The small stripped sail between the mizzen and main is the mizzen
staysail. It's kind of an assymetric for the mizzen. The tack normally
goes inboard of the main as far windward as possible. The clew sheets to
the end of the mizzen boom. It is only useful between 90 and 135
degrees off the wind. It has to be dropped for each tack or gybe.

In this picture it is hoisted wrong.


I wondered about that from the dimensions of the foot &
leach, plus the stripes on sails usually go the other way!

BTW there are mizzen staysails that can be used upwind, they
generally sheet to the centerline or close to it. Mari-Cha
IV uses one.

I was taught that a mizzen ballooner sheeted to the mizzen
boom was a "Dutchman's britches"... we had several of these
type sails on a Navy-owned ketch at NTC Great Lakes, but
none of them set properly no matter where we sheeted them. I
suspect they were made for a different boat.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King