Talk:TS Playfair

Rig

The article says Playfair is a brigantine, but I now see on one of the images that she has a gaff sail on the foremast also. There are only two square sails on the foremast, which could mean it should not be counted as square rigged, but rather fore-and-aft rigged with a square topsail and a "broad foresail" (I don't know what "bredfock" is called in English), and thus the ship would rather be a topsail schooner. --LPfi (talk) 11:18, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

She has no gaff sail on her foremast. She just has the two jibs attached forward. On the aft side of the mast the tack of the main stays'l is attached to the mast. As well the throat of their fisherman's satys'l is attached to the aft side of the foremast. The only gaff rigged sails are on the main mast. Although the fisherman sail has a peak and throat halyard and is quadrilateral, the ship was designed for all intents and purposes to be a brigantine. --Finally31 (talk) 1:25, 20 April 2011 (EST)

OK. I was probably confused by the shadows and the staysail boom. --LPfi (talk) 22:37, 21 April 2011 (UTC)