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spritsail's Usage Examples:

By the middle of the eighteenth century shipbuilders began using jibs to do the same job as the spritsail topmast with greater efficiency and less.

shoal Netherlands coast and was a ketch, spritsail rigged on the main, and lateen on the small mizzen.

She is a mulie, with a spritsail rigged mainmast, a topmast and a gaff-rigged mizzen.

striker"s length was typically half the length of the spritsail yard or, when spreaders were used, the same length as one spreader.

unusual spritsail rig allowed any combination of sails to be set: often the topsail on its own would be effective.

Lady of the Lea is a spritsail Thames sailing barge, the last such barge to be built in England.

The earliest European fore-and-aft rigs appeared in the form of spritsails in Greco-Roman navigation, as this carving of a 3rd century AD Roman merchant.

snotter is a rope or tackle used in sailing to tension the sprit on a spritsail, or a sprit boom on a sprit-boomed sail by pulling the lower end towards.

assist the spritsail (which hung below it) in bringing the bow around when tacking.

There are boomed spritsails, loose-footed spritsails and boomless spritsails.

Historically, spritsails were the first European fore-and-aft rigs, appearing in Greco-Roman navigation.

The spritsail is a four-sided, fore-and-aft sail that is supported at its highest points by the mast and a diagonally running spar known as the sprit.

spritsails, as the area under the bowsprit was instead occupied by rigging (martingales and dolphin striker) that reinforced the bowsprit and jib-boom against.