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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James-2489, post: 32517, member: 2317&quot;]Hello Gunny, Strictly speaking Schooners were 2 or 3 masted ships with all the lower sails rigged fore and aft. Sometimes square rig topsails were added for extra speed.</p><p>The ships depicted here are Barques with 3 or more masts all square rigged except the mizzen mast (rearmost mast) which was fore and aft rigged.</p><p>Fore and aft rigging allowed the ships to sail much closer to the wind at the expence of speed.</p><p>Modern yachts use fore and aft sails for manoverability and run up spinakers for additional downwind speed.</p><p>Regards, James[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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