Schooner
From LoveToKnow 1911
SCHOONER, a vessel rigged with fore and aft sails, properly with two masts, but now often with three, four and sometimes more masts; they are much used in the coasting trade, ...
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Schooner - has two (or more) masts. The aft mast is the mainmast and is as tall or taller than the forward mast(s). The varieties of schooner rigs are too numerous to mention. The typical modern schooner is often rigged as above.
schooner
A large sailboat with two or more masts where the foremast is shorter than aft mainmast.
scope
The ratio of anchor rode to vertical depth.
schooner - A sailboat with two or more masts. The aft mast is the same size or larger than the forward ones - . Also see ketch and yawl.
scow - A boat with a flat bottom and square ends.
screw - A propeller.
Schooner. Two or more masts, the artermast being as tall or taller than the others. Some schooners have carried seven masts.
schooner - A sailing ship having two or more masts; usually the foremast is the shortest vertical spar. Am 3-masted ship is called a "Tern."
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Schooner
A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel having at least two masts, with a foremast that is usually smaller than the other masts.
Schooners
The schooner rig is rarely seen today and, to my knowledge, there have been only two schooners in production in North America, the beautiful Cherubini 44 and my own little 32-foot Lazyjack (see January 2001 issue of Good Old Boat).
Schooner - Sailing ships with at least 2 masts (foremast and mainmast) with the mainmast being the taller. A 3-masted vessel is called a "tern."
Screw - A boat's propeller.
SCHOONER: First seen among 19th-century ships. It is multimasted and furls triangular sails. The foremost mast is always shorter than the others.
Schooner: The OED relates the story commonly told respecting the origin of the word as follows: When the first schooner was being launched (at Gloucester, Mass., about 1713), a bystander exclaimed "Oh, how she scoons!" The builder, Capt.
Topsail Schooner
Outline showing typical rigging.
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Topsail schooner
A fore-and-aft-rigged schooner carrying a square topsail and a topgallant sail on the foretopmast.
Topsides
The sides of the hull above the waterline and below the deck.
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Schooner- A boat with two or more masts, the mainmast set aft the smaller mast(s).
Screw- Propeller.
Schooner Vocabulary
Sailing, Schooner, Boats and Ship Terms
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Aback(backwind) - The sail filling on wrong side in the case of sq rigger may cause the ship to back up.
Abaft towards the stern.
Schooner: A vessel with two or more masts, with fore and aft sails on both masts, normally less than 150 tons, but some of the triple masted schooners built on P.E.I. in the 1880's exceeded 700 tons.
Schooner - Since the Virtual Voyagers are using a schooner an historical explanation of this type is included.
schooner-barge
A cargo vessel with a reduced schooner-rig, intended to be towed as a barge by a powered vessel but capable of sailing during emergencies. (back)
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The schooner, in which the most forward mast (the foremast) is shorter than the after masts.
Sailboat rigs are also known by where the headstay attaches to the mast and by how many stays it has forward of the mainmast: ...
On a schooner the fore and aft sails set on the fore mast.
Forestay
A stay leading from the mast to the foredeck to steady the mast and to hoist staysails on.
Schooner: A fore-and-aft rigged ship with two or more masts.
Sheet: Ropes that control the sail position.
Ship: Large sea going vessel, a full rigged sailing ship often refers to one with a bowsprit and three or more masts.
A type of schooner without a bowsprit.
knocked down
A boat that has rolled so that she is lying on her side or even rolled completely over. A boat with appropriate ballast should right herself after being knocked down.
A fully rigged schooner has three jibs. The foremost one sets on the topmast forestay and is called the jib topsail, a second on the main forestay is called the jib, and the innermost is called the staysail.
Bermuda Rig - A sail plan in which the main and/or mizzen, or the foresail of a schooner, is of triangular shape, very long in the luff and set from a tall mast. This is almost now universal in all sailing yachts.
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Gollywobbler A full, quadrilateral sail used in light air on schooners. It is flown high, between the fore and main mast, and is also known as a fisherman's staysail.
Gooseneck The fitting that connects the boom to the mast.
(See BUCKBOARD design) SCHOONER RIG - Two or more masts, rigged fore and aft. SLOOP RIG One mast, two sails. Has a main aft of the mast and a triangular sail (jib) forward of the mast, usually attached to the forestay.
Schooner: A sailing boat or ship with at least two masts. Generally used for ships of larger size.
Schooning: To move forward quickly; historic nautical term
Screw: The propeller of a boat, in sailing especially for yachts ...
Schooner: a two-masted boat where the aftermost mast is the tallest or all masts are of equal height. Can also have 3- and 4-masted schooners.
Sheets: lines used to control a sail's lateral position and movement, as in jibsheet and mainsheet.
Cruising schooners, designed by Cary Smith, made their appearance in 1898, and the class, from a modest beginning, seems likely to grow. The features of the boats are their sound and wholesome characteristics.
In yawls and ketches, the forward mast is the mainmast; in schooners and vessels with more than two masts, it is the second mast from forward.
The Cherubini 44 is a ketch It's big sister, the 48, is a schooner. The 44 features aluminum spars stepped on the keel. The chainplates are very well thought out.
In 1924 the German scientist Flettner built a schooner named 'Buckau' with two rotating cylinders, each 51 feet high. In 1985 the French sea-scientist Cousteau ordered a successor ship for his 'Calypso', the 'Alcyone'. Now the 'Calypso 2' will follow.
"The Pride Of Baltimore, a fine 137 foot schooner, was reportedly struck by a white squall. The 121-ton vessel sank about 240 miles north of Puerto Rico, casting the surviving crew members adrift for five days.
Cup: The Victorian-era pitcher that is now the trophy for the world's most prestigious sailboat race of the same name. The event began with the historic 1851 race around England's Isle of Wight, which was won by the New York Yacht Club's schooner ...
 See also: Sailing, Boat, Ship, Aft, Forward
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