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	Definition of Sail, from dictionary.net
		Sail burton (Naut.), a purchase for hoisting sails aloft for bending.
		Sail yard (Naut.), the yard or spar on which a sail is extended.
		To strike sail (Naut.), to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting, or in sudden gusts of wind; hence, to acknowledge inferiority; to abate pretension.
	www.dictionary.net /sail, (1235 words)

	Sail Ship Sails
		Modern sails are designed such that the warp and the weft of the sailcloth are oriented parallel to the luff and foot of the sail.
		In modern times a sail is cut of the extreme size which is capable of being carried in fine weather, and when the wind increases in strength it is reefed -- part is gathered up and fastened by reef points, small cords attached to the sail.
		Outboard of the square sails might be set studdingsails [studding sail, studsail, stun's'l) -- a sail on a special spar, extended outboard of a square sail or sails, for added sail area in moderate winds.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/sail-sails.htm (1720 words)

	Text-Book of Seamanship - Part 8
		Sailing in squadron in "order of sailing," those vessels which have the advantage in speed over others, are obliged frequently, besides reducing sail, to back the mizzen topsail, for the purpose of keeping in their stations.
		Sailing with the wind on the starboard quarter, under royals, flying-jib, staysails, and all starboard studding-sails, you are struck by a heavy squall.
		Sailing with the wind on the starboard quarter under royals, flying-jib, staysails, and all the starboard studdingsails,-a signal is made to come to on the port tack, with the main topsail to the mast, under single-reefed topsails.
	www.hnsa.org /doc/luce/part8.htm (15537 words)

	Boy's Manual Of Seamanship And Gunnery
		The leech-lines and slablines are bent to the leech of the sail with a running-eye over the same toggle, which is seized to the upper bowline-cringle ; when there are two leechlines and slablines the upper ones are bent to a toggle seized to the reef-tackle cringles.
		Brails are fitted to a trysail in the same manner as they are to a spanker, the sheet which answers the purpose of an out-haul is generally a luff-tackle hooked to the clew of the sail.
		Is bent with a sheet-bend to the outer clew of the sail.
	www.pbenyon.plus.com /B_S_M/Sail_Instruction.html (2897 words)

	Spanker (sail) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A spanker is either of two kinds of sail.
		On a square rigged ship, the spanker is a gaff rigged fore-and-aft sail set from and aft of the aftmost mast.
		On a racing or cruising yacht, a spanker is an additional headsail set beside and to windward of a spinnaker when running downwind.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanker_(sail) (148 words)

	Text-Book of Seamanship - Part 7
		A sailing ship under way, or being towed, shall carry the same lights as are provided by Article 3 for a steamship under way, with the exception of the white light, which she shall never carry.
		While the sail loosers are loosing the sail, the sheets and the halliards are manned, hands being by the clewlines and braces.
		When sailing with the wind aft, the terms starboard and port are used, and the same should be observed with the wind quartering to prevent mistakes.
	hnsa.org /doc/luce/part7.htm (18037 words)

	The Endeavour visit
		With full sail up, as she came in through the heads, she cut an imposing figure on the water.
		In fact, she was square-rigged on all three masts though she also had a spanker sail.
		She was not fast, for her fastest speed was 8 knots running with the wind, and she was at her best sailing with the wind abaft the beam when she did between 7 and 8 knots.
	www.khantazi.org /Events/Endeavour/Endeavour.html (1520 words)

	Model Ship Museum : Buy Sail Boats, Warships Ships, battleships, Ocean Liners, Modern Navy
		The topmast studding sail boom was often fitted with a small additional brace on the Continent and the topmast studding sail tack was sometimes arranged that it also served as lift to the topmast studding sail boom on the Continent.
		If no studding sail boo,111 was carried, the lower studding sail was fitted with a lower yard of half sail width, and was set flying, with a tack which was attached to the lower yard with three bridles.
		The halyards of the studding sail yards were single, and reeved through blocks on the yard arms or the booms to leading blocks on the mast and down to the deck.
	www.modelshipmaster.com /about/tech42--studding.htm (398 words)

	Haze Gray & Underway Photo Feature: Sail 200
		This sail was the capstone of many years of restoration, designed to fully restore the historic warship to her former glory.
		For her first sail she was fitted with six sails - fore, main and mizzen tops'ls (square sails), jib and flying jib, and spanker.
		The sails were made from Oceanus, a modern, synthetic sail material with the appearance of traditional canvas.
	www.hazegray.org /features/sail200 (600 words)

	Setting and Trimming the Cruising Spinnaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sail is about 25% smaller in total area than a standard spinnaker, but it is about twice as big as a conventional 150% genoa.
		The good thing about the cruising spinnaker is that you gybe this sail very much the same way you would if you were flying a genoa, thus avoiding the risk of an uncontrolled sail during the gybing maneuver.
		This is different from having the sail going in front of the forestay during the gybe, which is what happens when you using the spinnaker-halyard method.
	www.neilprydesails.com /newslet/19/19-trim.htm (1775 words)

	Sail 2002 update
		The forward sail are set to become aback and the main tops'l is set to fill away on the desired course, once the anchor is off the bottom.
		We struck the square sails and motor-sailed for the Kewenaw canal.
		Back and forth the hauled the sails around, from one side of the masts to the other, as each of the four mates to their turn tacking the ship, wearing the ship, and stopping the ship at the buoy under sail.
	www.brigniagara.org /12sailingupdate.htm (12901 words)

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		A triangular sail bent to a long yard set at an angle of 45 degrees to the mast.
		Rows of small ropes on a sail, parallel to the yard or gaff, with which the sail is tied up when it is reefed.
		Square sail set above the spritsail on a yard from the spritsail topmast, a small mast mounted on the bowsprit, usually found in old warships.
	www.calstatela.edu /faculty/eviau/edit557/vespucci/sharron/navterm3.htm (1416 words)

	Ships of the XVIII century - Flying Lab Software Forums
		For those who do not know what a spanker sail is, look on the square rigged ships and you see either a small triangular sail or schooner type gaff sail on the mizzen (rear) mast.
		The sail is set to help the ship keep a straight course by making it catch the wind, and usually not at a very efficient angle for forward propulsion.
		The jib sails can also be set to catch the wind too much or barely catch the wind to keep the ship steering a straight course, depending on where the wind is comming from.
	www.flyinglab.com /forums/showthread.php?postid=38767 (716 words)

	The Constellation Restoration Effort - After Two Years
		She displaces approximately 1400 tons and is the largest all-sail sloop-of-war built by the Navy.
		Constellation is "ship" rigged: each of her three masts carries squaresails with a fore'n aft sail or "spanker" on her mizzen mast.
		She set 20,000 square feet of sails and is the last all-sail warship built by the U.S. Navy.
	www.maritime.org /conf/conf-linden.htm (3348 words)

	Raleigh Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BEAUFORT, NC - Visitors to the Pepsi Sail Americas Tall Ships festival last week were able to take a look at several "tall ships" that arrived from around the world to the event.
		The ship has 23,626 square feet of sailing canvas with 31 sails including 15 square sails, 9 stay sails, 6 stun sails, 1 spanker sail and 1 storm sail.
		The beautiful wooden sailing ship is a sight to behold at the Morehead City deepwater port in NC.
	www.raleighchronicle.com /2006071301.html (1190 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 002 Commercial vessels > Replicas > British vessels
		Nowadays the tall ship is used mainly in sailing events, for corporate or private charter, and for receptions in its spacious saloon or on its deck.
		A replica, built in Bristol, sailed the same voyage on the 500th anniversary of the landmark voyage.
		The replica is 78' (23.7m) long with a beam of 20'6" (6.3m) with a draft of 7' (2.1m) and 2,360 sq.ft. of sail.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/postcardlibrary/index.php?cat=309 (659 words)

	Spanker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A spanker is a kind of sail on a sailboat.
		Spanker was the name of an 18th century famous thoroughbred race horse
		SS-17 Spanker is the NATO reporting name for the MR-UR-100 Sotka intercontinental ballistic missile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spanker (203 words)

	USCG Eagle - Minicraft 1/350
		She was seized as a war prize at the end of the war, the US Coast Guard christened her "Eagle", and with a mixed crew of USCG and German personnel, sailed her to the US in 1946.
		Eagle is rigged as a bark (or barque), which means she has square sails on the fore and main masts, but only fore-and-aft sails on the mizzen.
		Simple representations of the sheets for the fore-and-aft sails and braces for the square sails are shown in the photos of the completed model.
	smmlonline.com /reviews/models/uscgceagle/uscgceagle.html (1427 words)

	GeorgeF.Campbell page 41
		The BOOM and GAFF of the spanker (or driver) sail both had jaws which rode on and held these spars to the mast, assisted by a PARRAL of rope with wooden rollers.
		The set of the sail to the wind was adjusted by means of the MAIN SHEET.
		The GAFF carried the head of the sail and was adjusted by means of the peak and throat halliards (haul yards) Fig.
	www.all-model.com /Campbell/41.html (432 words)

	Snow
		A snow rig was similar to a brig - two masts with square sails on each.
		This was known as the trysail mast and was set with a spanker sail (fore-and-aft triangular sail).
		The snow rig was at one time common around the coasts of the UK but it is believed that the last one, the "Commerce" of Newhaven was built in 1862 and existed until 1909.
	www.theshipslist.com /ships/descriptions/snow.htm (141 words)

	segel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The POMMERN is rigged as a 4-masted barque.
		That means she has a jigger mast with a spanker sail and a spanker topsail, three masts with squaresails and staysails on the stays of the masts.
		Here are more details about the areas of the sails and the amount of canvas etc, in a sail.
	www.pommern.aland.fi /kunskapsbibliotek/engelska/segeleng/segeleng.htm (86 words)

	TaxAlmanac - Discussion:Insurance premiums at YE
		The Star of India (the oldest active sailing ship in the world for everybody else) is sailing both Saturday and Sunday this weekend.
		I am excited to again be sail crew and should again get some time on the helm while she is under sail out in the ocean.
		I am in it climbing when the title of the video is shown in the (spanker) sail at the beginning as well as other places but this part is the easiest to point out.
	www.taxalmanac.org /index.php/Discussion:Insurance_premiums_at_YE (629 words)

	India's tall ship sails into Erie on around-the-world voyage
		She was one of three Indian guests aboard the U.S. Brig Niagara, Pennsylvania's reconstructed War of 1812 flagship, as it sailed out of its home port on a special mission: to meet and escort back into Erie another sailing sister, the Indian Navy ship Tarangini.
		Among the non-working ship lovers who were lucky to get aboard the day sail were John DiTommaso of Murrysville, who's been vacationing with his wife, Sana, at their Lake Erie cottage.
		But as the captain cut the Niagara's diesel engines and the canvas spanker sail gently unfurled right in front of her, blotting out the sun, she was awed.
	www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20030704tallshipsr2.asp (974 words)

	ASTA - Description of Ship Rigs and Sail Names
		Sail Names and Rig Types of tall ships
		Note that "Mizzen" is a more modern spelling of "Mizen" and that "sail" is frequently abbreviated to "s'l" as in "tops'l" and "stays'l"
		For racing purposes vessels taking part in a race are divided into Classes, and in some cases; divisions within classes.
	tallships.sailtraining.org /sailrigs.htm (100 words)

	Reference pictures
		The square sails are rigged from the servo below deck through pulleys on the fwd mast to the aft mast yards and booms.
		The spanker sail works like most modern sailing vessels.
		The jibs using a sail winch are connected on a closed circuit loop of string.
	personal.atl.bellsouth.net /c/h/chrisgski/reference.htm (504 words)

	Ship of Gold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A small spanker sail was rigged in an attempt to keep the ship headed into the wind, for if it was broadside to the waves it risked being swamped.
		However, the spanker sail and all other canvas sails were soon ripped to shreds.
		on Saturday afternoon, the sail of the brig Marine was seen on the horizon.
	www.shipofgold.com /disaster.html (784 words)

	Chapter Spanæmic <i>to</i> Spare of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking.
		The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; — sometimes called driver.
		a boom to which a spanker sail is attached.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1210/24100/3.html (316 words)

	Maiden Voyage
		She had a full tailwind and started moving fast, I decided to bring her in and steered her to starboard towards shore.
		I noticed the spanker sail got full as well as the fore jibs.
		e set sail by the lights on our vessels doing our best to cheer the night.
	personal.atl.bellsouth.net /c/h/chrisgski/maidenvoyage.htm (244 words)

	Minicraft 1/350 USS Eagle
		Seized as a war prize at the end of the war, the US Coast Guard christened her “Eagle”, and with a mixed crew of USCG and German personnel, sailed her to the US in 1946.
		In 1967, the Coast Guard added the “Coast Guard” and red and blue stripes to the hulls of all cutters, except Eagle.
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	modelingmadness.com /reviews/misc/michaelseaglepreview.htm (1459 words)

	Lewis Monto - Plough Boy Journal 1827-1830
		Latter took sails out of the Steerage and put in the Cabin
		Fore part took in fore and Mizen topsail and Main sail and foresail
		Fore part at 2 PM saw A Sail off the lee beam
	www.du.edu /~ttyler/ploughboy/pbj2730.htm (3104 words)

	Marblehead Magazine's The 'Headers In Life And Legend by Russell W. Knight: 39
		It blew the tar back onto the spars
		And anchors and sails and kegs of nails
		The fire blew back in the galley stove,
	www.legendinc.com /Pages/MarbleheadNet/MM/Headers/Headers39.html (165 words)

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