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Date Posted: - Monday - 04/ 4/11 - 12:35am
Author: Kathy Campbell Shadow M32#3
Subject: Staysails
In reply to: Brian 's message, "2 Staysails" on - Sunday - 04/ 3/11 - 11:32am

Brian, Our Mariners can carry a lot of canvas. There is another sail that fits up top between the main an the mizzen,called a mule. I don't have that sail,but do have a small sail called a tallboy, it is
a light air cutter sail. I hate to say but Shadow an I are still on a ranch in Riverside county. I'm wrapping up some major restoration. Rendezvous sounds good to me. I'm pushing to get us back to the water so we could come. Do you have a block on the forward facing top of your mizzen mast so you can raise the mizzen up?
Yours truly, Kathy

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[> [> [> [> mizzen staysail -- Kathy Campbell Shadow M32#3, - Monday - 04/ 4/11 - 12:57am

A little slip up in the last post. A block on the forward top of the mizzen mast is needed to haul the mizzen staysail up.
Kathy


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[> [> [> [> Block -- Paul M31 #106 NJ, - Monday - 04/ 4/11 - 8:39am

Like this?

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So you can do this
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Wow! This picture stuff works... Cool.


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[> [> [> [> [> Light Air Staysails -- Kathy Campbell Shadow M32#3, - Monday - 04/ 4/11 - 2:40pm

Paul,
A pictures worth a thousand words. Thanks Paul. Yes my mizzen sstaysail block is attached to the metal (cranze iron?)at the top of the mizzen mast. This block would also be used for the mule,I belive to attach the tack? Then there'll need to be a block at the top of the main mast to raise the mule up the back of the main. My cutter staysail is attached to the forward part of the main mast, but 7.5' down from the top of the mast and the tallboy block is up closer to the top of the main mast.
Yours truly, Kathy


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