DeRuyter Posted January 19, 2017 Author Posted January 19, 2017 4 hours ago, maturin said: The quote was from Alan Villiers' about the Mayflower II voyage, by the way. Where have you handled a sprit topsail? Kalmar Nyckel? Yes - afaik still the only US tall ship with a sprit tops'l. Captain Hiott (RIP) experimented with the sail plan in our first several sailing seasons. He exchanged the sprit tops'l with the mizzen tops'l because the original was too large and unwieldy. The lateen mizzen is kind of a pain to shift - requires more crew than a spanker set up with a traveler for sure.
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