On Nov 1, 1:15 am, OzOne wrote:
On 1 Nov 2006 00:33:09 -0800, "cruisin"
scribbled thusly:



On Oct 31, 11:53 pm, OzOne wrote:
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:56:37 -0800, (Thom Stewart)
scribbled thusly:

The Staysail on the Mizzen Mast is often called a Mizzen Runner.Well done Thom....There are sailors and old sailors...

Well, maybe so, but on my ketch, the mizzen runners are running
backstays,You have runners on the mizzen?
Jesus..how tall is that stick?

Not that tall, but there isn't much aft angle on the uppers or lowers,
so it needs more aft support on a broad reach and especially if
carrying the mizzen staysail.


and the staysail forward would be called a spinnaker
staysail,Spinnaker staysail?
Never heard the term.....

Not too common these days, but used to be before the days of Bloopers
and Tallboys.

Where do you fly tis sail? off the forestay like a wire luffed assym?

Was set flying, tacked inside the headstay, halyard was about the
height of the (pole) topping lift. Yes, wire luff, cut full. I carry
one on my boat but rarely use it. I have pics of my Dad's boats flying
them, but unfortunately not digitized. Looks like the one on Bart's
pic is hanked onto the forestay tho, so I guess we'd just call that one
a forestaysail.
So please tell me what name you would apply to that skimpy mizzen
staysail?
Waiting on the edge of my chair,
Mike


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

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

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

cruisin wrote:
On Nov 1, 1:15 am, OzOne wrote:
On 1 Nov 2006 00:33:09 -0800, "cruisin"
scribbled thusly:



On Oct 31, 11:53 pm, OzOne wrote:
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:56:37 -0800, (Thom Stewart)
scribbled thusly:

The Staysail on the Mizzen Mast is often called a Mizzen Runner.Well done Thom....There are sailors and old sailors...

Well, maybe so, but on my ketch, the mizzen runners are running
backstays,You have runners on the mizzen?
Jesus..how tall is that stick?

Not that tall, but there isn't much aft angle on the uppers or lowers,
so it needs more aft support on a broad reach and especially if
carrying the mizzen staysail.


and the staysail forward would be called a spinnaker
staysail,Spinnaker staysail?
Never heard the term.....

Not too common these days, but used to be before the days of Bloopers
and Tallboys.

Where do you fly tis sail? off the forestay like a wire luffed assym?

Was set flying, tacked inside the headstay, halyard was about the
height of the (pole) topping lift. Yes, wire luff, cut full. I carry
one on my boat but rarely use it. I have pics of my Dad's boats flying
them, but unfortunately not digitized. Looks like the one on Bart's
pic is hanked onto the forestay tho, so I guess we'd just call that one
a forestaysail.
So please tell me what name you would apply to that skimpy mizzen
staysail?
Waiting on the edge of my chair,
Mike

What is this one called?
http://www.theyachtmarket.com/userimages/24272.jpg

Joe


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

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

"Walt" wrote in message
...
Thom Stewart wrote:

The name comes from the tack you're on when you fly it. The Main Boom
has to be out of the way, as in a down wind Tack or RUNNING before the
wind.

It is one of the saving graces of a Yawl Mizen Masts (Besides being very
pretty)


Hmmm. It looks to me like the yawl in the picture is reaching, not
running - tough to tell from a 2D picture, but the spinaker pole looks to
be barely to windward of the bow.

http://www.goodoldboat.com/classifieds/TonyPeot.jpg

//Walt

Agreed. Both the mainsheet and the mizzensheet appear to be relatively near
the centerline, but as you imply it's difficult to tell from a photo.

Max

On Nov 1, 6:26 pm, "Joe" wrote:
What is this one
called?http://www.theyachtmarket.com/userimages/24272.jpg

Joe

That's easy, Joe, a backwards fisherman/gollywobbler!
I really have no clue, or clew, as Jax would say, but it looks pretty
cool. Can't be too easy to set or douse, tho...
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.

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"cruisin" wrote in message
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On Nov 1, 1:15 am, OzOne wrote:
On 1 Nov 2006 00:33:09 -0800, "cruisin"
Where do you fly tis sail? off the forestay like a wire luffed assym?

Was set flying, tacked inside the headstay, halyard was about the
height of the (pole) topping lift. Yes, wire luff, cut full. I carry
one on my boat but rarely use it.

I have one. It is labelled as a free flying staysail and is tacked down to
an eye which is on a track on the foredeck. But the halyard is just where
you said.
I 'think' it sheets to the inner one of the two tracks I have on the side
deck-the genoa goes to the outer one.
I must try it out next year.
Need to experiment to find the right position of the eye on its track as
well.
This was one of many sails that came with my boat but I have never used it
yet.

cruisin wrote:
On Nov 1, 6:26 pm, "Joe" wrote:
What is this one
called?http://www.theyachtmarket.com/userimages/24272.jpg

Joe

That's easy, Joe, a backwards fisherman/gollywobbler!
I really have no clue, or clew, as Jax would say, but it looks pretty
cool. Can't be too easy to set or douse, tho...
Mike

Maybe Ol Thom will clue us in.

Joe

"Maxprop" wrote

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

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

I see one of these sailing inthe harbor. I have no idea
what it is called.

On Nov 1, 6:26 pm, "Joe" wrote:
What is this one
called?

http://www.theyachtmarket.com/userimages/24272.jpg