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Tall Ships Youth Trust is to sell one of its brigs
"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message anews.com... "Andy Champ" wrote in message ... Wilbur Hubbard wrote: I hope not because a brigantine is a two-masted, square-rigged ship with fore and aft mainsail. A 'brig' is a lubberly shortening of the word 'brigantine.' Wilbur Hubbard http://www.answers.com/brig&r=67 Note that the first definition is from the *American* heritage dictionary (so this is not your language being differnt!), and it has a link to brigantine with the description of the different rig. Andy Wrong! Let me repeat. A brigantine is a two masted vessel, square-rigged but with fore and aft mainsail. http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/d.../d0002703.html http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/brigantine http://www.geocities.com/cjstein_2000/dictionary.html#B note: a gaff sail is a fore and aft sail. Wilbur Hubbard There's little point in quoting references on the internet, most of them are plagiarised from other sources (for example, Google any of the phrases that support the above arguments, such as "A two-masted sailing ship, square-rigged on both masts." or "a two-Masted vessel with both masts square rigged. On the sternmost mast, the main mast, there is also a gaff sail.") I'm not convinced that there's a hard and fast definition. Sailing vessels are constantly evolving so they make the most of the extant sailing conditions, so having a brig (square rigged only) and adding a fore and aft sail (it's still a brig) seems perfectly reasonable. Alisdair |
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