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	Removable Staysail Stay
		To set the staysail, the tack end of the wire luff rope is attached to the stemhead with a snap shackle and the staysail halyard is clipped into the wire thimble at the head of the wire luff rope.
		An alternative approach to tension the luff wire is to use a small four-part tackle between the staysail luff rope tack and the stemhead.
		In this arrangement, a large "J" hook is attached to the eye of the lower turnbuckle screw with a clevis pin.
	www.flicka20.com /sail/page5.html (602 words)

	Staysail
		Soon every sailing ship carried staysails on every possible stay, and still today staysails are in use on every kind of sailing vessel, from small sloops to full-rigged ships.
		A staysail has three corners; the highest one is called the head, the lowest one is the tack, and the remaining one is the clew.
		A staysail is a fore-and-aft sail since it can take the wind from both sides of the sail, as opposed to the square sail.
	sailing-ships.oktett.net /staysail.html (243 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Staysail
		A staysail is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff is affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast.
		Confusingly, the innermost jib on a cutter, schooner and many other rigs having two or more jibs is referred to simply as the staysail, and another of the jibs on such a rig is referred to simply as the jib, see jib.
		Thus, the staysail hoisted on a stay that runs forward and downwards from the top of the mizzen topgallant mast is the mizzen topgallant staysail.
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