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We plan to have to have 2 types of that ship

 

1) McKay drawings body (with spanker boom) - more sturdy, less agile and speedy

2) Original (without spanker boom) snow rigged - more agile, and built for speed

 

can you please provide us with drawings or refs for the sailplan these 2 ships should have?

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A snow is essentially a brig, but with a small mast just aft of the mainmast, and terminating at the main truck (sometimes the 'mast' was just a stout cable instead of a wooden spar).  The overall proportions would be very similar to a brig, but with a small gap (iirc, usually 6-18 inches) between the luff of the spanker (aka snow sail) and the main mast.  This additional gap allowed some air flow through that made allow a coarse sail to be set on the main yard.  This improved downwin and broad reaching performance, but it also meant that the rig would cost more to build and maintain, as well as require additional sailors.

 

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Maturin, a 'horse' can refer to several things, and crops up every now and again in slightly odd situations (local vernacular), but tends to mean one of three things:

 

1) Sheet horse - a stout line or solid bar that allows the sheeting point on deck to freely travel athwartships, normally so the sheet itself can be left unattended whilst tacking. Commonly found on shorthand working vessels - Thames barges being a perfect example with horses for both main and stays'l sheets commonly used. #125 below.

 

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2) Flemish Horse - a seperate footrope for the yardarm, as otherwise the footrope would be too close under the yard to be useable:

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3) Dead horse - Having been paid a month's advance, for example, after a month into the voyage a sailor would be said to have worked off his horse, or that his horse was dead. Not sure why, best I've come across is that a sailor's advance often slipped straight through his hands to creditors, boarding-house masters etc, and so for the first month of a trip all his pay was going to support them ashore and only afterwards would his pay be his own. As such a sailor could feel he supported those ashore as a horse its rider. In the 'Golden Age' the end of the first month was marked by a big celebration, including the making and discarding overboard of an effigy of either a horse or a ragged man to the singing of 'Poor Old Horse'. Stan Hugill said that by his time the whole affair was very lackluster, if done at all.

 

Neigh.

 

Baggy

 

ps. I think Cochrane may be referring to a cable that the luff would run up, as opposed to a spar - a snow horse rather than a snow mast. I think...

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