On Oct 31, 11:53 pm, OzOne wrote:
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:09:45 -0500, "Bart" .@. scribbled thusly:

Oz gets no credit because he didn't answer the question, as
usual, and his only comment was a snipe. 1 lash for Oz.It wasn't anything like a snipe....It was a challenge to look again.

Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

OK, Oz, I looked again, and if I were to modify my answer I'd say it's
a high-cut mizzen staysail, one that allows the helmsman to see where
he's going, unlike most mizzen staysails. What name are you so
reticent to divulge that would describe it better? Bart? I would be
surprised to hear a different name used in common parliance. The
skipper would have to educate his crew and label the bag in large
lettering if so. Do you think this boat carries a differently cut
mizzen staysail as well?
Curious,
Mike

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On Oct 31, 11:53 pm, OzOne wrote:
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:09:45 -0500, "Bart" .@. scribbled thusly:

Oz gets no credit because he didn't answer the question, as
usual, and his only comment was a snipe. 1 lash for Oz.It wasn't
anything like a snipe....It was a challenge to look again.

Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

OK, Oz, I looked again, and if I were to modify my answer I'd say it's
a high-cut mizzen staysail, one that allows the helmsman to see where
he's going, unlike most mizzen staysails. What name are you so
reticent to divulge that would describe it better? Bart? I would be
surprised to hear a different name used in common parliance. The
skipper would have to educate his crew and label the bag in large
lettering if so. Do you think this boat carries a differently cut
mizzen staysail as well?
Curious,
Mike

Perhaps Oz thinks it's a mizzen staysail of yankee cut? A mizzerable
yankstaysail?

Max

Max & (Mike)
A Staysail is usally named and flown from a STAY (Even if it is a
temporary set Stay) A Wire Luff isn't a Stay.

A Stay is part of the STANDING RIGGING. A Luff Line is part of the
RUNNING RIGGING, even if it is wire, it is part of the Sail and not the
RIGGING.


http://community.webtv.net/tassail/ILLDRINKTOTHAT

On Nov 1, 8:00 am, (Thom Stewart) wrote:
Max & (Mike)
A Staysail is usally named and flown from a STAY (Even if it is a
temporary set Stay) A Wire Luff isn't a Stay.

A Stay is part of the STANDING RIGGING. A Luff Line is part of the
RUNNING RIGGING, even if it is wire, it is part of the Sail and not the
RIGGING.

http://community.webtv.net/tassail/ILLDRINKTOTHAT

Roger that, Thom, but I'm too old a dog to learn new tricks! Guess
I'll just have to continue being one of the legions of misnomerizers.
Eschewing obfuscation,
Mike

On Nov 1, 7:40 am, "Maxprop" wrote:
Oz thinks it's a mizzen staysail of yankee cut? A mizzerable
yankstaysail?
Mizzerable yankrunner, now that's a name that could stick, eh? What a
funny thread this has turned into. On my boat I just tell my crew to
set all the rags that'll fly, and let God take 'em down.

Max- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -

"Maxprop" wrote

Perhaps Oz thinks it's a mizzen staysail of yankee cut? A mizzerable
yankstaysail?

Maybe in Oz, they'd call in a ******?

The ketch in the picture is sailing a genoa, main, mule, and mizzen.

"mule sail n. A staysail hung with the point down and carried between the
mainmast and the mizzen on ketches."

The Sailor's Illustrated Dictionary by Thompson Lenfestey published 1994 The
Lyons Press

Ansley Sawyer
SV Pacem
39' Camper Nicholson Ketch