A staysail ("stays'l") is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from a mast to the deck , the bowsprit , or to another mast.
7-524: Club Med 2 is a five-masted computer-controlled staysail schooner owned and operated by Club Med and operated as a cruise ship . It combines the power of seven computer-operated sails with more traditional diesel-electric power, having four diesel generators that power two electric motors. Club Med 2 was launched in 1992 in Le Havre , France . Her sister ship Club Med 1 was sold to Windstar Cruises and renamed Wind Surf in 1998. The ship, one of
14-411: A ship attempts to tack but fails and has to bear away again on the original tack, she is said to have missed her stays. In cutter rigged yachts the genoa will often need to be furled before changing tack due to the difficulty in passing the big sail between the two forestays. Here the staysail can help bring the bow through the wind more effectively. In addition to providing more overall sailing force ,
21-460: A stop each morning. A water sports deck can be deployed from the stern. The ship was based on Windstar Cruises ' smaller 5,350-ton, 148-passenger Wind Star , Wind Spirit and Wind Song motor sailing yachts. All were built by Société Nouvelle des Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre, France. Staysail Most staysails are triangular; however, some are four-cornered, notably some fisherman's staysails . Triangular staysails set forward of
28-446: The foremost mast are called jibs , headsails, or foresails. The innermost such sail on a cutter , schooner , and many other rigs having two or more foresails is referred to simply as the staysail , while the others are referred to as jibs, flying jibs, etc. Types of staysail include the tallboy staysail (a narrow staysail carried between the spinnaker and the mainsail on racing yachts), the genoa staysail (a larger one carried inside
35-560: The largest sailing cruise ships in the world, carrying up to 386 passengers with a crew of 214, sails the waters of the Mediterranean , Aegean Sea and Adriatic Sea in the summertime and the Caribbean in the winter, finding her way into anchorages larger cruise ships cannot reach. Transatlantic voyages are offered in the spring (eastbound) and fall (westbound). The ship provides ballroom dancing, bridge and music, and sails at night making
42-432: The spinnaker when broad reaching), and the bigboy staysail (another name for the shooter or blooper, carried on the leeward side of the spinnaker). Unlike the cutter staysail, none of these sails have their luff affixed to a stay. On large rigs, staysails other than headsails are named according to the mast and mast section on which they are hoisted. Thus, the staysail hoisted on a stay that runs forward and downwards from
49-414: The top of the mizzen topgallant mast is the mizzen topgallant staysail . If two staysails are hoisted to different points on this mast, they would be the mizzen upper topgallant staysail and the mizzen lower topgallant staysail . In square rigged ships the staysails can help in tacking, overcoming the lumbering square sails' tendency to prevent bearing up to windward, especially in light winds. Where
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