Interesting Canadian vessel
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Wansworth
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What type of rig would that be?
Bajansailor
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She seems to have square sails on all three masts, so does that make her a full rigged ship?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-rigged_ship
Wansworth
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In theory yes
AntarcticPilot
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You might find this interesting: St. Roch (ship) - Wikipedia. I haven't seen her (to my shame - I've been in Vancouver several times!) but I have an account of her passage through the Northwest Passage during WW2 on my bookshelf. Quite definitely NOT PC with regard to native peoples! But the Canadian government had a decidedly paternalistic view of native peoples at the time, and the St Roch certainly saved some communities from starvation.
From a quick look, St Roch appears to have quite similar lines, but has a fore and aft rig and mainly depended on motor.
From a quick look, St Roch appears to have quite similar lines, but has a fore and aft rig and mainly depended on motor.
veshengro
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Interesting to see how her appearance changes when the Bowsprit with the additional curved stem piece are fitted. Her plans at 0.38 don't show it, so it must have been a later addition. With that new look and without the housing aft she would have looked like a real mini Clipper Ship. 
MADRIGAL
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It is interesting that the rig seems to have varied over the years. Some images in the video show only two masts with fore-and-aft rig, while the later images show the three-masted ship rig. I imagine that she would have worked under power in ice-clogged, narrow passages and under sail only on voyages south for supplies in open water. Thanks for posting this. I had not heard of this vessel before.
AntarcticPilot
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Rig changes were quite a usual thing in those days; Slocum describes several changes to Spray's rig, for example.
