Square sail on a yacht
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- This video is about setting a square sail on a yacht. The footage of sailing is by Will Stirling (of www.stirlingandson.co.uk) who describes his method of setting the square sail on www.classicsailor.com.
Link is classicsailor....
The system was tried and tested on a sail to Iceland in the summer of 2018 and although quite simple in concept, using just four lines and a halyard, it has worked well.
So it's set on the staysail halyard right? Then is there a tensioned stay that runs up from the base of the mast that it's attached to so the yard doesn't swing forward? I've seen a number of diagrams of 19th century yachts with square sails rigged, I'm really curious how yours is rigged.
Do you think it works better than a spinnaker?
Cool, but how well does it perform compared to a spinnaker?
I actually wish there were more modern examples so comparison could be made. Really the racing scene drove innovation in production boats through most of the last century, and the spinnaker sort of wiped the square sail out of existance, ironically I don't think it was because it was necessarily better, its a totally different type of sail . Earlier on it was commonplace for all gaff rigged ocean going yachts to have a square sail that would be used on downwind passages, square sails were very stable and powerful in tradewind conditions, the yard spreading the head of the sail kept it nice and controlled, you could trim it easily with braces leading aft, and you wouldn't have to gybe any booms over going downwind in a bigger sea, just small bracing adjustments and sheets.
Square sails were generally not made super light like spinnakers, as they were considered a work horse for almost all weather. typically they were the same weight of cloth as the mainsail.
Spinnaker is much better for flat water and light wind, unquestionably. But a square sail is more stable and controlled in a seaway, less dangerous than a huge nylon sym spin deflating with a roll of the boat off a wave and inflating in big gusts, and then theres gybing a spinnaker in a seaway. Really it is illogical that square sails arent still common on offshore cruising yachts.
@@squarerigapprentice Thank you for such an informative response - I'm wondering what you think of the twin masts as an option as in the link supplied - do you think the design would work with a few tweaks as a trimaran? ruclips.net/video/b8ik2XKAFv0/видео.html&ab_channel=TalonMikeVideos
@@squarerigapprentice Eh I suppose you're right. I will be perfectly honest when I say the very idea of flying a spinnaker makes me uncomfortable. They just look unstable, and I've seen way too many vids of spinnaker wipeouts lol. And yeah I do think the fact all modern boats try to be raceboats is rather lame, when it gets to the point people start seriously suggesting putting foils on cruisers you know it's gotten to the point of illogical ridiculousness.
jong = junk
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In the Chinese rivers and seas you see sailing ships with square sails, called junks.
pan-jang = long
lon-jong = oval shaped
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junk1 (T) = n 1 2 Inf. 2a rubbish generally. 2b nonsense: the play was absolute junk. 3 Sl. any narcotic drug, esp. heroin. ▪ vb 4 (tr) to discard as junk. [C15: jonke old useless rope]
junk2 = n a sailing vessel used in Chinese waters and characterized by a very high poop, flat bottom, and square sails supported by battens. [C17: from Port. junco, from Javanese jon]