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.
8-413: MSY Wind Surf is a five-mast staysail schooner that is one of the largest sailing cruise ships in the world, with two electric propulsion motors powered by four diesel electric generating sets also. She can carry up to 342 passengers, in a total of 150 ocean-view staterooms, 18 ocean-view suites and 2 deluxe bridge suites, with a crew of 210. Wind Surf had been owned and operated by Club Med under
16-411: 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 ,
24-446: 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
32-549: The name Club Med 1 , and was later transferred to Windstar Cruises . On a 10 day itinerary that began on December 18, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2020, 48 crew members and 51 passengers of the 342-passenger ship tested positive for covid and were taken off the ship for quarantine in Barbados; later many other passengers tested positive and were unable to return home until they tested negative. La Fayette
40-432: 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
48-414: 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
56-480: Was based on Windstar Cruises' smaller 5,350-ton, 148-passenger Wind Star , Wind Spirit and Wind Song motor sailing yachts. All were also built by Société Nouvelle des Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre, France. In 2013, she was featured in the season 7, episode 3, of a Discovery TV series, called Mighty Ships. Staysail Most staysails are triangular; however, some are four-cornered, notably some fisherman's staysails . Triangular staysails set forward of
64-462: Was launched in 1989 at the Société Nouvelle des Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre [ fr ] , France , renamed Club Med 1 on 14 January 1990. Her sister ship Club Med 2 was launched in 1992 in the same shipyard. Club Med 1 made her maiden voyage in 1990, and sailed for Club Med for eight years. In 1998, Club Med 1 was sold to Windstar Cruises and renamed Wind Surf . The ship
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