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spritsail

شِرَاع غير مَطْوِيّ

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The spritsail rig was normally used without a boom. en.wikipedia.org

Its purpose as initially built was to assist the spritsail (which hung below it) in bringing the head of the ship around when tacking. en.wikipedia.org

Interestingly, the boat already featured a spritsail, adding to the mobility of the harbour vessel. en.wikipedia.org

The dolphin striker's length was typically half the length of the spritsail yard or, when spreaders were used, the same length as one spreader. en.wikipedia.org

At about 3.00pm she began to take on water and the mate and the cabin boy manned the pumps in an effort to prevent the spritsail from being swamped. en.wikipedia.org

She is now permanently spritsail rigged, and has a mainmast and topmast that, together, are about 90 feet high, and a mizzen mast. en.wikipedia.org

She spent some of her life ketch-rigged and some of it spritsail-rigged. en.wikipedia.org

The stays for the jib sails made the spritsail top both irrelevant and inconvenient. en.wikipedia.org

In the fifteenth century a hoy might be a small spritsail-rigged warship like a cromster. en.wikipedia.org

They were usually spritsail rigged on two masts. en.wikipedia.org

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