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Cupid Stunt · Dec 31, 2014

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TT600 - Basically sails in a sailing ship are named as follows :

Jibs (the staysails forward of the forward mast, fwd to aft) Flying Jib, Outer Jib, Inner Jib and Fore Top-Mast Staysail.
Main, square rig, sails (named for each mast that they serve, followed by - working upwards...) Course Sail, Lower Topsail, Upper Topsail, Lower Topgallant, Upper Topgallant, Royal, Skysail and Moonraker. If additional sails are added outboard of the normal working sails in light winds these are called Studding Sails - eg "Main Upper Topsail Port Stud".
Fore and aft sails between the masts are Stay Sails and are named for the stay that attaches their uppermost part - eg Mizzen Lower Topgallant Staysail.
The masts, incidentally, are named (fwd to aft) Foremast, Main Mast, Mizzen Mast. The fourth, aftmost, mast is normally called either the Bonaventure Mizzen or the Jigger Mast. In some early sailing ships there may also have been a Sprit Topmast which was mounted on the Bowsprit forward of the Foremast.

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JR45 · Dec 31, 2014

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Hello Sailor
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Hmmmmm...
Not heard that one before...
Ever......

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