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Working boats and
coastal freighters Cutter with a
single mast and
multiple headsails Schooner with two or more
masts Ocean-going
merchant vessels Brig with...
- is a single-masted boat, with two or more
headsails. On the
eastern side of the Atlantic, the two
headsails on a
single mast is the
fullest extent of...
- sloop. The jib is a
headsail. See
cutter rig for
other examples of
headsails. Gunter-rigged
sloop Gaff-rigged
sloop with a
headsail and a gaff topsail...
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Triangular staysails set
forward of the
foremost mast are
called jibs,
headsails, or foresails. The
innermost such sail on a cutter, schooner, and many...
- of the mast, most
boats have at
least four
forestays which can
carry headsails.
Three of
these are
usually attached to the deck and, as well as bracing...
- the forecastle, or "forecastle men", were
responsible for
handling the
headsails and the anchors. In the
Royal Navy of the 17th and 18th centuries, these...
- and the
foremost mast. Jibs and
spinnakers are the two main
types of
headsails on a
modern boat.
Boats may be
sailed using a jib alone, but more commonly...
- have
headsails (Jibs). When a
ketch is
rigged so that it can fly
multiple jibs at the same time, the rig is
sometimes referred to as a multi-
headsail ketch...
- be used. The term jib is the
generic term for any of an ****ortment of
headsails. The term
genoa (or genny)
refers to a type of jib that is
larger than...
- The
usual sailing rig was
single masted, with a gaff
mainsail and two
headsails - the jib was set on a
bowsprit and the
staysail to the stemhead. This...
