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On Feb 18, 9:42 pm, "Harbin Osteen" wrote:
Yes, I did mean schooner, but I have never seen one with equal sized
mast, and
was wondering if there was a proper name for this particular setup.

Yes, schooner. Schooner rigs cover a lot of ground. For instance,
Herreshoff's Marco Polo, was a very popular schooner design in the
post war period and you may still see a few around. They were
designed with three masts with the center mast taller than the fore
and aft mast. There are a bewildering array of different schooner
rigs and they may be like Justice Stewart's definition of pornography:
"you know them when you see them." Schooners must have at least two
masts and must have fore and aft sails rigged on each mast, other than
that, well...

-- Tom.


Oh, sure -- but can this boat carry a Fisherman and a Gollywobbler? (ha!
Gotta love those schooner sail names!)