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The stays for the jib sails made thespritsailtop both irrelevant and inconvenient.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The dolphin striker's length was typically half the length of thespritsailyard or, when spreaders were used, the same length as one spreader.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Interestingly, the boat already featured aspritsail, adding to the mobility of the harbour vessel.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thespritsailwas hoisted, but put too great a strain on the foremast, which collapsed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its purpose as initially built was to assist thespritsail(which hung below it) in bringing the head of the ship around when tacking.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the fifteenth century a hoy might be a smallspritsail-rigged warship like a cromster.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She spent some of her life ketch-rigged and some of itspritsail-rigged.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thespritsailrig was normally used without a boom.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They were usuallyspritsailrigged on two masts.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.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 thespritsailfrom being swamped.
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