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Re: [OM] IMGs: Newly Digitised Shackleton Photos

Subject: Re: [OM] IMGs: Newly Digitised Shackleton Photos
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 15:11:03 +0000
That is an interesting rig, Chris.  I wonder how easy was it to raise the sails 
on the foremast, and how efficient the resulting configuration in different 
angles of wind.

Chris

> On 21 Nov 2015, at 14:37, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>   The Royal Geographical Society has digitised more of the photos from 
> Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctica expedition:
> 
> http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34856379 
> <http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34856379>
> 
>     I don't know as I have seen the very first one before, as it reveals the 
> rigging configuration of the Endurance that I had not realised.  The foremast 
> is rigged much like the single-masted (later refitted as a brigantine) 18th 
> century sloop "Lady Washington" that I've recently seen, with a gaff rigged 
> sail together with the square rigged sails.  The main and mizzen masts of the 
> Endurance are both gaff rigged.  Pretty odd for an open-sea vessel, more like 
> a coastal cargo ship (aka coaster).

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