A staysail ("stays'l") is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from...

A fisherman staysail is a sail placed between the fore and main masts of a sailing ship, usually a schooner but also including brigantines. All four of...

schooners are gaff-rigged, but other examples include Bermuda rig and the staysail schooner.: 211 : 26 : 100 : 48  The name "schooner" first appeared in eastern...

mast. A staysail set on a stay running forward and downwards from the top or midpoint of the topgallant mast is called a topgallant staysail. C.S. Forester...

Club Med 2 is a five-masted computer-controlled staysail schooner owned and operated by Club Med and operated as a cruise ship. It combines the power of...

a roller furling genoa, and a working staysail for most wind conditions, and, for strong winds, a storm staysail and trysail. Sails for lighter winds would...

boat with two staysails the inner sail is called the staysail, and the outer (foremost) is called the jib. This combination of two staysails is called a...

staysail hoisted to the top of the mizzen topgallant on a stay running to the top of the main topmast would be called the mizzen topgallant staysail....

MSY Wind Surf is a five-mast staysail schooner that is one of the largest sailing cruise ships in the world, with two electric propulsion motors powered...

masthead to a bowsprit. The sail on the forestay is then referred to as the staysail or stays'l. A forestay might be made from stainless steel wire on a modern...

allowing sails to be flown from both the forestay and the staysail stay at the same time. Since a staysail on a cutter does not run all the way to the mast-top...

mainsail, but generally carries the mast further aft to allow for a jib and staysail to be attached to the head stay and inner forestay, respectively. Once...

Roller furling is a method of furling (i.e. reefing) a yacht's staysail by rolling the sail around a stay. Roller furling is typically used for foresails...

A genoa sail is a type of large jib or staysail that extends past the mast and so overlaps the main sail when viewed from the side, sometimes eliminating...

the bowsprit, a little beyond the forestay, on which the fore-topmast staysail runs on hanks. main-topmast stay attaches to the hounds of the foremast...

wind the craft may want to broach. Running goose winged with a balloon staysail poled out to windward will balance the CE; Nick Skeates circumnavigated...

upper end of the main-topmast-staysail; a mizzen-topmast may carry the equivalent. The fore-topmast will carry a staysail, but depending on where the lower...

Mizzen Staysail 19.9 Mizzen Topmast Staysail 29.8 Maincourse 86.6 Main Topsail 101.3 Main Topgallant 45.6 Main Staysail 40.6 Main Topmast Staysail 46.8...

mainsail on a boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail." With general usage, that term came to define any vessel of the United...

Adventurer-56 (formerly Blue Max) 1984 USA Annapolis, Maryland Privately owned Staysail Adventuress 1914 USA Port Townsend, Washington National Historic Landmark...

30 m (214 ft) Camper & Nicholsons Charles Ernest Nicholson 1927 3-mast staysail wooden schooner; originally Vira. Largest Wooden hulled sailing yacht....

gaff mainsail and two headsails - the jib was set on a bowsprit and the staysail to the stemhead. This is a cutter rig, not to be confused with the ship's...

for square rigged vessels to include some fore and aft sails, such as staysails. A mast may be referred to as a square rigged mast where square sails...

Luff 11 – Foot Corners: 1 – Head 10 – Tack 12 – Clew 1 – mainsail  2 – staysail  3 – spinnaker  4 – hull  5 – keel  6 – rudder  7 – skeg  8 – mast  9 –...

Berriman and Trevor Lyons, a maritime law expert, used the latter's 72-foot staysail schooner Rich Harvest to transport large quantities of cigarettes and spirits...

cutter or sloop. Less well known are the advantages of setting a mizzen staysail when reaching, which can give a considerable amount of extra drive not...

named "Arjuna"—35.9 metres (118 ft) Main topgallant Main topmast staysail Main staysail Main topsail Mainsail Mizzenmast, named "Yudhistira"—32.5 metres...

A particularly fair ferrocement vessel, the staysail schooner "Rich Harvest"...

Jib Lateen Mainsail (Bermuda rig) Raffee Ringtail* Screecher* Spinnaker Staysail Trysail* Four-sided Course Fisherman† Foresail Junk sail* Lug sail Mainsail...

without comment in a vessel description. On rigs having multiple jibs or staysails of which at least one is set high, such as many late 19th and 20th Century...