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	Mast (sailing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mast of a sailing ship is a tall vertical pole which supports the sails.
		On a two-masted vessel with the mainmast forward and a much smaller second mast, such as a ketch, or particularly a yawl, the terms mizzen and jigger are synonymous.
		Some two-masted schooners have masts of identical size, but the aftmost is still referred to as the main-mast, and normally has the larger course.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mast_(sailing) (504 words)

	RIGGING - LoveToKnow Article on RIGGING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The mast is held up and controlled by ropes, which are classed together as the standing rigging, because they are that part (of the whole rigging) which is made fast, and not hauled upon (Admiral Smyth, Sailors Word-Book).
		Near the heads of the lower masts are the topsplatforms on which men can standand in the same place on the topmasts are the crosstrees, of which the main function is to extend the topgallant shrouds.
		The simplest of all forms of rigging is the dipping lug, a quadrangular sail hanging from a yard, and always hoisted on the side of the mast opposite to~ that on which the wind is blowing (the lee side).
	35.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RI/RIGGING.htm (3575 words)

	Airfoil sailing system - Patent 4848258
		Mizzen mast 18 is rotatably mounted to a lower boom 19 and an upper boom 16.
		The mizzen sail 21 is attached to mizzen mast 18 by yards 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28 in a similar manner to the mounting of main sail 3 to main mast 2.
		Mizzen sail 21 and jib sail 34 are symmetrical fore and aft in the manner of main sail 3.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4848258.html (4279 words)

	Ketch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A ketch is a sailing craft with two masts: A main mast, and a mizzen mast abaft the main mast.
		The difference is that the ketch has her mizzen mast forward of the rudder post thus having more sail area, which contributes significant forward propulsion, whereas the mizzen on a yawl is aft of the rudder post and is used primarily to balance the sail plan (and as a riding sail while at anchor).
		Running before the wind or reaching across the wind, a ketch may carry extra sails such as a spinnaker on the main mast, and possibly a second smaller reaching set between the masts (mizzen staysail).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ketch (296 words)

	Sail Ship Masts
		A mast (0ld Engglish maest; a common Teutonic word, cognate with Latin males; from the medieval latinized form maslus comes French mat), in nautical language, is the name of the spar, or straight piece of timber, or combination of spars, on which are hung the yards and sails of a vessel of any size.
		Mast and sail arrays could be exceptionally complex, held together by a labyrinth of rigging, and could be trimmed into a number of configurations to maximise speed.
		The earliest form of mast which prevailed till the close of the middle ages, and is still in use for small vessels, was and is a single spar made of some tough and elastic wood; the conifers supply the best timber for the purpose.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/sail-masts.htm (1958 words)

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		The flute is the main dutch merchand ship at the 17th century, rigged with two masts each one with two square sails, a mizzen mast with a triangular sail and a bowsprit.
		The three-masted barque (in french "trois-mâts barque") has two square rigging, on the foremast and on the main mast, when the mizzen mast is rigged with a spanker on a gaff and a gaff topsail.
		The three-masted schooner (in french "trois-mâts goélette") has a square rigging on the foremast when the main mast tand the mizzen mast are rigged with a spanker on a gaff and a gaff topsail.
	www.chez.com /philateliemarine/phil_mar_e/d_tail_types_e.htm (446 words)

	Sail Magazine 2005 Buyers Guide: xxxxx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The traditional distinction between the two was that on a yawl the mizzen mast is located aft of the sternpost and is rather small; on a ketch it is located forward of the rudder and is somewhat larger.
		The mizzen on a yawl is half the height (or less) of the main mast; a ketch's mizzen is noticeably taller.
		A yawl's mizzen may be used as an "air rudder" to help balance and even steer a boat while sailing in a straight line, or it can be backed at strategic moments to help turn a boat quickly or slow it down in close quarters.
	www.sailbuyersguide.com /articles/boatpages/ChoosingAMast.cfm (1907 words)

	Mizzen Mast Retired to Juddmonte - bloodhorse.com
		Mizzen Mast, who began his career in France and was a group winner there, emerged as one of top older runners on the West Coast for trainer Bobby Frankel.
		Mizzen Mast's dam, Kinema (by Graustark), is a half-sister to stakes winner Sweet Alliance, the dam of European champion Shareef Dancer.
		Mizzen Mast's third dam is the Newstead foundation mare Legendra.
	breeding.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=11903 (201 words)

	E37 Ketch Maststep
		It actually is mounted to the rear of the mizzen mast which adds the torsional strength to the cockpit floor with the boat under sail.
		FWIW: My friend with the Irwin hates that mizzen mast as your helm position is right under its boom, and its a pain to work around the rigging as you move back and forth in the cockpit...picture docking.
		Does it have a seperate ss rod from the mast step to the mast collar at the cabin top, this stops the cabin top from lifting, while a cross support is as this person has surmized the lateral support.
	www.endeavourowners.com /dscsn/deck/maststep.html (575 words)

	Rigging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rigging (Anglo-Saxon wrigan or wrihan, to clothe) denotes a ship's apparatus of spars (including both masts and yards), sails and cordage, by which the force of the wind is used to move the hull against the resistance, and with the support, of the water.
		The backstays, and other ropes which keep the top and topgallant masts in place, are therefore only “comparative fixtures.” The bowsprit, though it does not rise from the deck but projects from the bow, is in fact a mast.
		She has one quadrangular sail suspended from a yard which is hung (or slung) by the middle to a single mast which is placed of a fully clothed mast.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Rigging.htm (3723 words)

	Mizzen Mast, Western Pride Return in Strub Stakes \| bloodhorse.com
		Mizzen Mast won the first leg of the Strub series with the Malibu Stakes.
		Mizzen Mast switched from turf to dirt for trainer Bobby Frankel in the first race of the series, and the move proved successful as the then 3-year-old won the seven-furlong Malibu Stakes (gr.
		II), with Mizzen Mast kept in the barn to point for the Strub.
	www.bloodhorse.com /articleindex/article.asp?id=7843 (431 words)

	An Introduction to Ships of the American Revolution
		On the main mast, the lowest yard was called the mainyard, the next one up was the maintopsail yard, followed by the main topgallant sail yard, and finally the main royal yard.
		The main types of standing rigging were the shrouds which supported the masts on either side, the stays which ran forward from the mast, and the backstays which ran backwards.
		These masts are rigged with the distinctive "lug" sail, a quadrilateral sail fastened to a yard which is slung obliquely in a fore-and-aft position.
	www.continentalline.org /articles/9802/980202.htm (1320 words)

	Historical Documentation
		The lower mast caps join the foot of the topmast to the head of the lower mast, for each of the three masts, fore, main and mizzen.
		Mast caps are so called because they sit on and are mortised into the top of the lower mast to give support to the mast section above it.
		The mast caps have a mortise or square hole in the aft section for the lower mast head tennon and a through round hole forward for the upper mast to pass through.
	www.maritime.org /conf/conf-otton-docapp.htm (3074 words)

	Kenyon 3550 Mast Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Kenyon 3550 mast section is normally used with 1 1/8" OD round spreaders or with Kenyon SP-2.2 airfoil spreaders, which measure 1 7/8" (fore and aft) x 3/4" (vertically).
		Pad is attached to mast with 1 screw, clearance holes for screws to mount winch are then drilled through pad, winch mounting holes are drilled and tapped in spar wall.
		Mast Step for 3550, as K-9886 (above), but with bottom milled so that mast angles 5 degree aft when mast step is on flat surface, or so mast is vertical when mast step is on 5 degree angled deck.
	www.rigrite.com /Spars/kenyon_spars/3550-Mast.html (3503 words)

	illustrated square rigger terminology
		The yard (and therefore, mast) to which a sail is attached determines the name of the sail.
		If there is a square sail on the mizzen mast it is called a CROSS-JACK (pronounced "crojek") as is the lower yard; however a sail on the mizzen-topmast yard is called a mizzen-topsail, as one would expect..
		A BARK has square sails on the fore and main masts and fore-and-aft sails on the mizzenmast unless it has four or more masts in which case only the aftermost mast is rigged for-and-aft.
	www.theageofsail.com /terms.htm (1189 words)

	Arlington Notes - Chicago Barn to Wire
		Juddmonte Farms, Inc.'s Mizzen Mast, the Kentucky-bred but European-campaigned gray sophomore who is one of the prime candidates for Saturday's Grade I Secretariat, worked three-quarters of a mile from the gate in 1:13 4/5 over the muddy Arlington Park main track Thursday at 7:40 a.m.
		Mizzen Mast recorded splits of :25 2/5, :36 4/5, :48 4/5, and 1:01 2/5 prior to the 1:13 4/5 six furlong marking, and galloped out seven-eighths in 1:27 3/5.
		Nautically, a mizzenmast, on a yawl or ketch, is the third mast back from the bow of the ship, but Mizzen Mast has been more toward the front than that in his two most recent outings.
	www.barntowire.com /2001/APnotes010816.shtml (1239 words)

	Netsails Sailmakers Online - Sail Measurement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mast Bend - With backstay tensioned and the main halyard tight down to the intersection with the boom estimate the maximum measurement between the back of the mast and the halyard.
		Measure the fore and aft dimension of the mast to assist in this estimation.
		P E Foot - Measure from the aft face of the mizzen mast to the furthest outhaul setting.
	www.meridsail.co.uk /netsails/pages/diagram.html (588 words)

	Racing Sails
		P = Main mast length - distance from the top of the main boom to the fl band at the top of the main mast.
		I = Deck to mast length - distance from the deck to the intersection of the forestay and and mast.
		J = Forestay to mast length - distance from the forestay at the deck to the mast at the deck.
	www.doylesails.com /designinfo-anatomy.htm (289 words)

	Mizzen English Setter Puppy Photos
		Mizzen's name comes from the sailing term for the shorter second mast on a two-masted sailboat.
		The shorter aft mast is called the mizzen mast, and the sail hung on it, is called the mizzen.
		Mizzen's parents have sailed most all of their lives, so she will be getting her sea-legs in a hurry.
	mizzen.org (242 words)

	Christopher Columbus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Foresail and mainsail were square sails, the sail on the mizzen mast (at the stern) was a triangular sail known as a lateen, there was also a small square sail on the bowsprit, and small topsail on the mainmast above the mainsail.
		The Niña at Corpus Christi, is rigged as her namesake under Columbus, the square 'trinquette' sail set on the fore mast with the square 'mayor' sail on the main mast and the fore & aft 'missana' sail on the mizzen (stern) mast.
		The mizzen mast on the poop (stern) deck has a triangle fore & aft sail of 188 sqft, the spar being (the usual) two lashed tree limbs.
	www.sailtexas.com /columbusships.html (1714 words)

	Barque
		By the end of the 18th century, however, the term came to refer to any vessel with a particular type of rig comprised of three (or more) masts, fore and aft sails on the aftermost mast and square sails on all other masts.
		Related rigs are brigantine (2 masts), barquentine (square-rigged on only the fore mast), and the sole instance of a vessel with 2 fore-and-aft rigged masts and 2 square-rigged (the Olympia).
		Throughout the period of sail, the word also was used as a shortening of the barca-longa of the Mediterranean Sea.
	www.datamass.net /ba/barque.html (307 words)

	SetSail.com - the serious cruising sailor's website
		As the mizzen represents only 17% of sail area, by your recommendations on pg.645 of the Encyclopedia, this sail is more decorative than useful and the boat would probably be better rigged as a sloop with a removable inner forestay.
		The mast currently has the original track where the slugs are flat and slide inside a track that is riveted on to the mast.
		Gybing downwind with the babystay means you have to remove the pole from the mast toggle and move it around the other side of the babystay to complete the gybe (somewhat of a pain).
	www.setsail.com /c_central/faqs/faq_rigs.html (9951 words)

	NewStandard: 7/3/98
		This attention to detail has characterized the entire construction of Capt. Glidden's flag pole, which is a one-fifth replica of a mizzen mast typically found on a three-masted man-of-war such as the USS Constitution.
		The mizzen mast is the rear, or aft mast.
		Glidden trims the halyards on the replica of the mizzen mast of a three-masted Man-of-War, such as the USS Constitution.
	www.s-t.com /daily/07-98/07-03-98/b01lo046.htm (643 words)

	Wind Generator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A piece of 1/8" rubber was placed between the brackets and the mast to reduce vibration transmitted from the wind generator.
		A third bracket is at the top of the mast an is made of Starboard.
		The wire from the wind generator comes down the inside of the mizzen mast and exits near the bottom of the mizzen mast.
	www.dv-fansler.com /Sailing/Annabelle/Electrical/wind_generator.htm (505 words)

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		The placing of the masts was pleasing to the eye; and the balance obtained could not possibly be bettered.
		The mizzen yards also hang slightly lower than the main yards at the crojick; but as they are to carry smaller sails than either fore or main mast, the distances between them diminish rather rapidly; so that the mizzen-royal yard hangs just a tiny bit higher than the main top-gallant yard.
		The mizzen mast, of course, is much shorter than the main; while the fore-mast is just a little shorter than the main.
	www.swcp.com /usvmyg/squarerig/sq2.htm (1682 words)

	Virtual Trincomalee - Masts & Sails (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		By the time of Trincomalee mast and sail arrays were exceptionally complex, held together by a labyrinth of rigging, and could be trimmed into a number of configurations to maximise speed.
		They could also allow ships to maneuvre even when the wind was opposing their course - the one situation where a sailing vessel was helpless was becalming - a complete absence of wind.
		The triangular Jib and Stay sails (the latter hung between the masts, and all but the most forward of them not shown here for clarity) would increase maneuverability.
	www.hms-trincomalee.co.uk /virtual/rigging/sails.htm (201 words)

	HotWire - KISS Wind Generator Mount
		There are several ways & places to mount a wind generator aboard: attached to a stern arch, on a pole, forward of a mizzen mast, in the rigging, or even overboard and towed astern.
		Hotwire's Mizzen Bracket ($245.00) is designed to be mounted on the mizzen mast, somewhere near the spreaders.
		And the wind generator is easier and safer to reach to remove the blade assembly when preparing for a hurricane.
	www.svhotwire.com /mount.html (482 words)

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