Is It a Jib or Staysail?
On a Boat with Two Staysails the Inner Sail Is Called the Staysail, and the Outer (Foremost) Is Called the Jib. This Combination of Two Staysails Is Called a...
On a boat with two staysails the inner sail is called the staysail, and the outer (foremost) is called the jib. This combination of two staysails is called a cutter rig (or in North America a yankee pair) and a boat with one mast rigged with two staysails and a mainsail is called a cutter.
Is staysail a jib?
The Genoa Staysail is a small jib (often furling), which is set inside the fore-triangle and used for reaching in more than eight knots of wind.
What is the difference between a jib and a staysail?
is that staysail is (nautical) a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast while jib is (nautical) usually with a modifier, any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
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