DSK wrote:
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

Wake up Doug, it's not upside down, it's outboard of the main boom. It
should be inboard.

The best they can do is about 60 degrees upwind then they get in the way
of sheeting the main.

Gaz