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Old 09-24-2007, 12:11 PM   #26
shorty943
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Most probably. It is the rig that makes the vessel, not the hull shape or function.
That by the way, is a very "jaunty" little brig. Clipper bow, and a very racy countered stern.
A very sexy little brig.
Not a "Jackass Brig" with a schooner rigged mainsail, (no main squares) like One and All.
Most of the later big "Clipper Ships" were more like schooner rigged Brigs.
The British held to ship rigs, square rigs. Go like the blazes before the wind.
Not so good "uphill". The square rig can't turn around the mast and rigging far enough. A square sail can not "point" into the "eye of the wind".

The "eye" is the exact bearing of the wind.
A fore and aft jib-head, or Bermuda rig, of a modern yacht, can point up to about 1 1\2 "points" (1 point is about 11 degrees) or about 17/18 compass degrees, into the wind to be able to tack up-wind.
A square rig, you might, get to within 7 points into the eye.
In a ship rig, you tack across the wind. Literally.

An exercise.

Go GoogleEarth,
find Kangaroo Island, and the passage between the Island and York Peninsular. (It looks a lot like Italy. Boot shaped.)
Eastern end, Troubridge Island with Marion Bay behind.
Now picture this, truth, One and All.
2230 (hrs) All's well. Safety rounds over.
Weather fine, easy westerly, we're sailing west to Port Lincoln.
Shorty gets head down. Sleeps.
0600 duty watch call Chief Engineer Shorty.
Step on deck, seems like all is were I left it. There is Marion Bay, there's KI.
Down the Nav hutch go I, count and strain, almost 8 hours sailing, at an average speed of 10 knots, with 3 tacks thrown in overnight, we had "made good" 3 Nautical Miles to the west.
It can take a while, to get nowhere, in a square-rigger.

The smart owners and Masters, went to square on the fore-mast to run before the wind. With the rest schooner rigged, on big booms and gaff heads.

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