To add sails or not? What is your preference?

[Roger Pellett]

If you are going to add sails, spend a little time with and $$ on a Seamanship book.   The master of a square rigged sailing vessel could set an infinite combination of sails to suit weather conditions, the way his ship  handled, and the course that he was sailing relative to wind direction.  In my opinion, maritime artists notwithstanding, it would have been unusual for every sail to have been set. Even sailing downwind in a moderate breeze some sails were often brailed up to avoid blanketing other ones.

 

Roger