The spritsail is a four-sided, fore-and-aft sail that is supported at its highest points by the mast and a diagonally running spar known as the sprit...

A Woods Hole spritsail boat is a small sailing and rowing craft, constructed entirely of wood, and fastened with iron or copper. It was used historically...

though it is not restricted to Oceania, is neither a lateen sail nor a spritsail, and has an independent older origin. Crab-claw sails were invented by...

sailing ships a spritsail is a square-rigged sail carried on a yard below the bowsprit. One of the earliest depictions of a spritsail is carved on Borobudur...

Gunter-rigged sloop Gaff-rigged sloop with a headsail and a gaff topsail Spritsail sloop Sloop sail with multiple foresails and topsail Mast aft rig, a single...

close adjacent to it. Topsails are never carried on gunter rigs. The spritsail is another rig with a four-sided fore-aft sail. Unlike the gaff rig where...

(square rig) Moonraker* Ringtail* Royal Skysail* Spanker Spritsail (square-rigged)† Spritsail* (Optimist) Studding* Tanja sail Topgallant Topsail Watersail*...

identifying device". The Jack was flown in the bows or from the head of the spritsail mast to indicate the vessel's nationality: "You are alsoe for this present...

snotter is a rope or tackle used in sailing to tension the sprit on a spritsail, or a sprit boom on a sprit-boomed sail by pulling the lower end towards...

Crab claw Fore-and-aft Lateen Settee Tanja Triangular sail Junk Mast-aft Spritsail Square Armaments Ballista Catapult Corvus Dolphin Harpax Ram Sambuca...