jigger mast - The mizzen mast of a yawl or dandy.
Joggle - In the shipwright's craft, carpentry, and masonry, a notch or notches forming a box scarf to enable two pieces of wood to fit together.
Jigger:
(1) A light tackle consisting of a double and single block used for many small purposes onboard.
(2) Aft sail on the mizzen mast of a yawl or a ketch, or on the jigger:mast of a schooner.
Jigger
A small sail on the mizzen mast of a yawl or a ketch.
Junction Buoy ...
JIGGER-Another name for the mizzen or aft sail on a ketch or yawl. Such a sail was improvised on Tinkerbelle to help her ride better to a sea anchor.
Jiggermast -- The mizzenmast of a yawl or dandy.
Kentledge -- Pig iron used as ballast.
Lanyards -- Ropes rove through deadeyes by which shrouds or stays are set up.
mizzen, jigger
The aftermost sail on a ketch or yawl. It is set on the mizzenmast. A mizzen staysail is a light sail set forward of the mizzenmast.
MLW, mean low water ...
Sections: Jigger-mast lower - Jigger topmast - Jigger topgallant mast
Mast names for other vessels generally follow this naming.
Many ships would also have a bowsprit at an angle closer to the horizontal extending forward of the prow.
A Bermuda sail, set on the main-mast is called main sail, set at the jigger mast is called jigger. The three staysails before the mast are called inner jib, outer jib and flying jib. An extremely large jib is called a genoa.
The boat was balanced because she was sailing with a jib and jigger. Jib and what? A few readers not of a certain age may be puzzled. Jigger is old sailors' slang for mizzen. The Alerion 38 is a yawl.
yaw, yawing: to turn from side to side in an uneven course. yawl: a boat with a two-masted rig in which the mizzen, or jigger, is abaft the rudderpost and the helm.
A two-masted fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel similar to the ketch but having a smaller jigger- or mizzenmast stepped abaft the rudder. Also called dandy.
Jigger-Aft sail on the mizzen mast of a yawl or a ketch. After mast (4th mast)on schooner or sailing ship carrying a spanker.
Jones John Paul-US (Scot.-born) naval officer & hero in American Revolution; as captain of ship ...
Jigger Tackles are composed of double and single blocks, strapped with tails. A Long Tackle is composed of two blocks, - a long tackle-block, and a common single-hook block.
yawl A two-masted sailboat similar to a ketch, but with a smaller aftermast (mizzen or jigger) stepped abaft the tiller or wheel; a yawl's mizzen is smaller than a ketch's, as well as being placed farther aft.
Jibe: To go from one tack to the other when running with the wind coming over the stern.
Jigger: Aft sail on the mizzen mast of a yawl or a ketch. After mast (4th mast) on schooner or sailing ship carrying a spanker.
cessel of this class, has a length of from 70 to 80 ft., and a carrying capacity of from 100 to 120 tons on about 6 ft. draught. Like the Dutch galliot, she is provided with lee-boards, and is foreand-aft rigged with sprit-sail and jigger.
 See also: Sailing, Boat, Rope, Mizzen, Yawl
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