Unidentified Sail Plan

Discussion in 'Sailboats' started by SeventhWave, Nov 29, 2006.

  1. SeventhWave
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    SeventhWave New Member

    The attached scanned image originated behind an old painting belonging to a friend of my partents. I have no indication of the date or location. Clearly the sail plan for these vessels is unusual, and I am trying to identify it.

    Has anyone come across this plan? I am not convinced that what appear to be stay-sails aren't in fact a temporary canopy, but at least five of the vessels have the main-mast well aft, and what appears to be a heavily forward-raked fore-mast with a long bow-sprit. Is it just an extreme development of a schooner rig?

    Sorry about the quality of the scanned image; I can get a higher resolution if anyone is interested.

    Murray
     

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  3. Kaa
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    Well, the staysails have lazyjacks, so I don't think it's a canopy :)

    These could be a pair of xebecs (aka chebecs or zebecs), re-rigged for gaff. Xebecs have their fore mast sharply raked forward, so that fits, but they traditionally used lateen sails and, besides, usually had a small mizzen.

    In the back there are some square-rigged ships and from the scan it's hard to tell which masts belong to which ships.

    Kaa
     
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    Nice looking sailboats. But it looks to me the picture came from 1900's LOL

    But I think this is Thomas Yost kayak if I'm not mistaken.
     

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