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HMS Vanguard Staysail Attachment


bwood

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Plan Sheet 12 of the HMS Vanguard plans indicates that the sails shown on that sheet are to be tied to mast stays using thread at each stitch line. If this was done to the fore and main stay sails (L5 and Q7) how would the sails be run up and down with the cross stitching between the fore and main stays and preventer stays being in the way?

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The snaking (cross stitching between the fore and main stays and preventer stays) I have recently heard, might be only put on for action.  Your thread at each stitch line, or seam in the sail, might be wood or metal hanks, loops around the stay and sewn to the sail.  There might be a line put up for the staysails, parallel to the stay.

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