Wisdom of the FL

[chickenfeet]

There's a sailing vessel out on the harbour at the moment. She's a two master. She's square rigged on the foremast (just course and topsail as far as I can see) and fore and aft rigged on the mizzen. She's flying a jib. Is there a name for this rig and is it at all common?

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[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a topsail schooner. It's fairly common, I'd say.

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

Schooner. Topsail schooner to be exact. We have not a few of them in the Chesapeake Bay, including the goodwill ship Pride of Baltimore (http://www.pride2.org/NewPrideSite/Pride2/P2Home.html), which has her home dock in our Inner Harbour.

(I secretly think it's very funny that Baltimore clippers of that type were the chief craft of Chesapeake and Banks islands privateers, in the C18th and early C19th, and considered quite the scourge. "Goodwill ambassador" indeed.)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Looking at the links kindly provided by you and the lemur it's definitely a brigantine. Both sails on the foremast are rigged to square yards, not just the topsail.

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

Turns out what we saw was one of our local 'brigantines'. Probably the Playfair.

http://www.tallshipadventures.on.ca/boats.htm

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's it for sure.