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The sail is spread by a sprit from peak to tack where it is held to the mast.
What are the names of the sails that are attached to the fore mast and the bow sprit?
The ship is 106ft m long by 25ft m wide, 236 tons displacement, 4 masts (mainmast, foremast, mizzen, sprit), and 6 sails.
Its sprit and foresail rig has 40sqft m2 of sail area.
The tack parrel will hold the tack into its horizontal position (parallel to the deck) as a snotter tensions a sprit.
The first boats had sprit rigs, but this soon gave way to gaff rigs.
They are not only ' ' sprit-forsaken,' ' but ' ' corrupt,' ' a stronger and more powerful word than ' ' soldiery.
Licences to store petroleum sprit are issued by local authorities, including harbour authorities.
There is not a sprit-up as to how these coupons were issued as between the various types of users.
They also avoid the danger of setting out rules so rigid that they encourage compliance with their letter but not with their sprit.
From there was the option of a bow sprit, as well as a swimgrid, which added to the total length.
They had leg-o-mutton sails with sprit booms on un-stayed masts.
Each sail was equipped with a horizontal sprit that enabled it to be brailed up to its mast and deployed rapidly.
Oddly, the sprit rigged mainsail was often accompanied by a jib and a topsail.
As this happens he started talking about the holy trinity, the father, the son and the holy sprit.
The boats were generally outfitted with a sprit or lug sailing rig and a small jib.
Until the mid-1700s, most ships also flew a sprit-topsail from the short sprit topmast that rose vertically "above" the fore end of the bowsprit.
