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Tall Ships Youth Trust is to sell one of its brigs
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
The photos I Googled showed both of them sailing together and neither on had a fore and aft sail on the mainmast. Both masts were square-rigged from top to bottom. http://www.tallshipsyouthtrust.net/d...t=693&doc=6823 That picture shows them from ahead which makes it difficult to see whether the gaff sails on the main masts are present. Go to their homepage http://www.tallshipsyouthtrust.net and there is a photo of one of them from less directly ahead, where you can clearly see a gaff sail on the after mast (and the mainsail, i.e. the bottom-most square sail on the main mast, is present, but furled). On the menu along the left, click on "The Ships" (which takes you to the page you mentioned, with the photo of the two side by side), and then on "Our Tall Ships". This takes you to a page which contains a photo from the quarter, which makes it a bit clearer. On the same page there is also a sail plan with names, and the gaff sail is identified as a "spanker". This means they are rightly called 'brigs.' We're agreed on that, at least. If they were fitted with a gaff mainsail at some time earlier or later then they should be called 'brigantines.' Not if the gaff sails were there *as well as* the square sails. A brigantine has no (provision to set) square sails on the after mast at all, but if a brig (which of course has square sails on both masts) also carries a spanker (as it usually does), that doesn't make it a brigantine. |
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