Nice boat but could I sail it single handed?

[Colin_S]

Saw this on the Medway today - wonderful sight!

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[Sybarite]

Easy. The sails are divided over two masts so no sail is too big to handle. That's the theory.

John

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[Bejasus]

description please for an ignorant mobo'er. Gaff rigged schooner with clipper type sails on forestays.........don't know what the other two sails are that are furled./forums/images/icons/crazy.gif
So what do you correctly call this type of rig?
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[Colin_S]

Followed it onto Chatham Marina later on and those 2 furled sails and booms (correct term?) had to be rotated 90 degrees to clear the lifting bridge.

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[Sybarite]

From memory (but wouldn't swear to it) it looks like a "barquentine" and likely a Baltic Trader.

John

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[IanPoole2]

blooming big

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[jorinda]

Sailing it's probably the easy bit, but parking it a marina on a busy sunday single handed would be worth watching.

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[tugboat]

I checked this so don't think I'm a smartarse (definitely NOT-I spelt smartarse wrong first time round!!)
SHIP----------3 or more masts, all square-rigged
BARQUE------3 or more masts, all square-rigged except aftermost mast which F&A
BARQUENTINE--3 or more masts,square on fore, F&A on rest
BRIG---------2 masts, both square-rigged
BRIGANTINE--2 masts, square-rigged on foremast
SCHOONER---2 or more masts, F&A on all but with square topsails

guess that makes it a schooner?

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[john_morris_uk]

For what its worth I would have described it as a 'Tops'l Schooner". Tops'l for the square rig on the foremast. Schooner is hopefully obvious - the main mast is abaft the foremast.

Not sure about singlehanded, but I've been on a similar one with an effective crew
or three or four including the skipper.




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[Bejasus]

ok, with all my ignorance, I would also have went for Tops'l Schooner, but what do I know./forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[Bejasus]

so how did you know that you had spelt it wrong. Did you check it in a dictionary??

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[qsiv]

My old man traded a few of these - regular crew was him, two hands, a boy and a dog.

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[Peppermint]

Re: That would be a no then. NM

nm

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[moodycruiser]

Saw this one with the rags up pretty much all the way to the Avant Port in Cherbourg.

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[snowleopard]

that's a brigantine, the previous photo is a topsail schooner.

boats of that size were sailed by a man and a boy. in today's terms that means you on the helm and 'er indoors on the ropes /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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[DanTribe]

Sailing it shouldn't be a problem but how long would it take to polish the topsides?

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[ongolo]

I have one almost like it, my world has collapsed this morning. Who wants the boat?

See other post to follow.

regards ongolo


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[tugboat]

No, my dog told me. Now she IS a smartarse!/forums/images/icons/laugh.gif

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[JonA]

If the yard for the fore course is standing, as it looks in the picture, I would call her a Hermaphrodite Brig. Funny place for the ensign, at the main masthead, should be at the main peak. Strange arrangement of spans for both the peak halliards. Nice though.
Jonathan

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