Friday, 17 February 2012

Sailing Sailing Continued


  
Hello again, earlier this week I was blogging about sailing on the St Lawrence II, her sister ships and some different rigs.  Today I am going to continue.

Playfair and Pathfinder. They are both brigantines like the St Lawrence II very similar because they are sisters! The St Lawrence II is the oldest. Pathfinder is the middle sister and Playfair is the baby.
I have already talked about the St Lawrence II my last post so today I will start with Pathfinder.

Pathfinder is 72’ overall, 15’ wide, and has over 2,600 square feet of sail.  She was built in 1963 in Kingston, Ontario.

Today she looks like this:


Playfair is 72’ overall, 15’ wide, and has over 2,600 square feet of sail. She was built in 1973 in Kingston, Ontario.


Today she looks like this:

So here I am talking about sailboats but I haven’t said anything about sails.
Standard sails on a brigantine are: Jibtop, Jib, Fore stay’sl, Course, Top’sl, Fisherman, Main stay’sl, Main, and Gaff top’sl and some other sails.  




To be continued…

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